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Grapes, raisins, and currants and dogs
For households with dogs, including your dog. Not a diagnosis about your dog. If this just happened, call your vet. Do not wait for a website.
TLDR
Grapes, raisins, sultanas, and Zante currants can cause kidney injury in dogs, and no home amount is safe. If they may have eaten any, call your vet or an emergency clinic now. Trail mixes, cookies, and holiday leftovers are common traps. Do not wait for symptoms.
If exposure is possible · act first
This is not medical advice. If your dog may have eaten grapes, raisins, sultanas, or currants, contact your veterinarian or an emergency animal clinic now. If you cannot reach them quickly, contact an animal poison control center. There is no amount we can call safe at home.
Know the names and the traps. Fresh grapes, raisins, sultanas, Zante currants, and many trail mixes or baked goods that contain them all count. Some dogs become very sick after only a few pieces; others do not show the same response after larger amounts. That unpredictability is why we never clear an exposure with a calculator.
What counts fresh grapes · raisins · sultanas · Zante currants · grape products in baked goods and trail mix
Also known as grape · grapes · raisin · raisins · sultana · currant · Zante currant · Vitis
Hides on labels as sultanas · currants in trail mix · raisin paste · grape juice concentrate (check full label with your clinic)
Often in fresh table grapes; raisin boxes and snack packs; trail mix and granola; cookies, breads, and cereals with raisins; fruit cakes and holiday leftovers
- Do not decide a few grapes or raisins are fine.
- Do not treat any amount as a safe amount at home.
- Do not induce vomiting or give home remedies unless a veterinarian directs you.
Read more (not a substitute for calling)
Why science treats this as a dog hazard synthesis under review · not final show work
The expandable reasoning below is still a candidate Outside Base notebook. The seatbelt above uses established authority and stands either way.
Vitis fruits are associated with acute kidney injury in dogs. Individual susceptibility is highly variable. Mechanism is incomplete; tartaric acid is a leading hypothesis. No validated home-safe amount exists.
- Hazard class: grapes/raisins/currants associated with canine AKI (FDA list + OA review synthesis)
- No validated DIY safe threshold
- Mechanism incomplete; tartaric acid proposed in later toxicology
- A safe number of grapes for your dog
- That low estimated g/kg means wait and see
- A completed molecular mechanism
- Home treatment protocols
- AKI association hazard class (oba.vitis.aki-association)
- No safe home threshold (oba.vitis.no-safe-home-threshold)
- Mechanism incompleteness (tartaric acid hypothesis) (oba.vitis.mechanism-incompleteness)
- Green-light calculator below literature g/kg minima
- Exploratory piece-per-weight heuristics as clearance
- Definitive toxic principle and full pathway? mechanism_unclear
- Validated home-safe amount? not_applicable
- How accurate are typical piece-mass assumptions? method_limited
- US FDA Animal Health Literacy as of 2023-02-28
- Cortinovis & Caloni 2016 as of 2016-03-22
Frame frm.vitis.grape-raisin-aki · pack as of 2026-08-01 · Outside Base feeder
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