Chives are the most petite member of the onion family. They are related to green onions (aka, scallions) and grow in little clumps of long, thin, hollow green leaves. It is a herb plant whose leaves, seeds, or flowers are used for flavoring food or in medicine.
Since Chives are like onions, if ingested by dogs can cause hemolytic anemia. This means that the red blood cells break down leaving your dog short of oxygen. Onion poisoning can take place with a single ingestion of large quantities. The poisoning may take place a few days after. Your dog will experience gastroenteritis with vomiting and diarrhea, weakness and show little or no interest in food. A red pigment from the burst blood cells will appear in your dog’s urine. Your dog will also experience shortness of breath because the red blood cells that carry oxygen through the body are reduced in number. You must seek immediate veterinary care.
Believe me I learned my lesson. I just smell the flowering chives …
Lots of Golden Woofs,
Thank you for that very important lesson Sugar! I knew about onions, but not about chives. Gratitude!
Hugs xoox
Sammie
Thanks fur the pawesome PSA!
Of khourse, your pikh with the furry nice purple was beaWOOtiful!
Hugz&Khysses,
Khyra & Khousin Merdie
Very good information! We will watch out for chives.
Wags and Kisses,
Wrigley
We always stay away from onions, too!
Bunny
My momma loves chives. I do not have anything to worry about…my poppa is so careful about what I eat. He wont let me have human food expect for peanut butter, chicken and cottage cheese.
Thanks – mum knew about onions (and has her vegetable garden fenced so I can't get in) but she never thoght about her berbs in pots that I can get to, so I've just heard her say she is going to move the chives as I've been known to eat anything!
I knew about onions but never considered chives – great post!
Thanks for the lesson – it can sometimes be easy to forget that dogs can't eat all the same things that people eat!
Super Duper Sugar Post 😀
Kissslobbers
El'bow & Hauwii
Sugar, we did not know that. Sure glad you told us all about it. We don't grow Chives so we won't be eating it but that is great information.
Hope you have a super day.
We didn't know about chives, Sugar. Thanks for the info. Luckily we do not have any growing in the garden since we do like to eat most things!
love
Martha and Bailey xxx
Thank you for sharing.
Woof,
Cobi
That's a great reminder, Sugar! We hope you didn't learn your lesson the hard way!?!?
Love,
Ammy
Thank you for the tip, Sugar. We had no idea!!
Woofs and Kisses!
The Fiesty Three
WOWZA! We didn't know that! We have some of those in our garden but they are behind the rose bushes and those things are picky! We'll pass on the onions – pass the steak!
Double-Double, hold the onions.
Thanks for telling us about chives Sugar. We didn't know that. We knew about onions but not that one! Beautiful picture of you!! Lots of love, Debbie and Holly
Thank you for the warning, Sugar! We haves some growing in our backyard and I'll make sure my mom pulls 'em out right away! (Cuz sometimes I forgets stuff I learned and I might eat 'em anyways.)
Wiggles & Wags,
Mayzie
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Hi Sugar!!
Thank you so much for visiting our blog!!
We are so happy to meet you!!!
We love your heart-shaped lovely face!
How lovely you are!
And thank you for the important lesson.
We cats need to know that,too!
that ish furry much good to know . since we just moved into our new house and mommish wants to stawt a gawden she ish weesearching all the bad plants for woggies so she keeps those outta ouw yawd. she loves chives so this is furry good infor and we fank you sugar.
pibblw wiggles
the pittie pack
Thanks so much for letting us know Sugar!! Bilbo and I don't eat people food but that Jacob seems to want to eat EVERYTHING. We will tell him to stay away from onions and Mama's Chives!
Smileys & Snuggles!
Dory, Jacob & Bilbo
Hello Sugar,
Thank you so much for sharing this. We will watch out for those nasty onion family!
-Fudgie, Princess, Frappie, Mocha, Sugar, Wai-Pai, Wai-Max & the Piappies
Oohh good advice Sugar… Keep sniffing 🙂
Olive
Thanks for the very impawtant lesson Sugar! Just sniffing here too!
Sugar, you are so beautiful!
Mom loves chives! We've got a lot of chives too!
Sam & June
Good to know Sugar! Thanx
Wyatt
Thank you Sugar. We will not talk to any chives that we see!!
Thanks Sugar. I surely don't want any of that stuffs to happen to me.
Very good information. I only recently heard that onions were bad for dogs but I never knew all the details.
Excellent and timely reminder!
Pat
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