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Yes. Most healthy dogs can eat small pieces of plain apple flesh, with or without skin. Remove the core and seeds, wash the apple, and skip apple pie, juice, cider, and sweetened applesauce.

Yes. Most healthy dogs can eat small pieces of plain ripe banana as an occasional treat. Skip the peel, banana bread, sweetened banana chips, and banana desserts.

Yes. Most healthy dogs can eat a few plain, washed blueberries as an occasional treat. Keep portions small, soften or size frozen berries carefully, and skip muffins, jam, pie filling, syrup, and sweetened blueberry products.

Yes. Most healthy dogs can eat small pieces of plain fresh pineapple flesh as an occasional treat. Remove the skin, rind, crown, leaves, and tough core first, and skip canned pineapple in syrup, dried pineapple, juice, cake, and sweetened products.

Yes. Most healthy dogs can eat small pieces of plain, washed strawberries as an occasional treat. Skip syrup, jam, jelly, ice cream, sweetened yogurt, and large portions.

Sometimes. Most dogs can eat tiny amounts of ripe, plain red tomato flesh, but tomatoes are a limited food. Avoid green tomatoes, tomato plants, rotten tomatoes, and tomato sauces, soups, paste, ketchup, pizza sauce, or pasta sauce unless every ingredient is dog-safe.

Yes. Most healthy dogs can eat small pieces of plain red watermelon flesh. Remove the rind, peel, and seeds first, cut the fruit into bite-sized pieces, and use it as an occasional treat rather than a daily serving.

No. Dogs should not eat chocolate. If your dog ate chocolate, identify the type, estimate the amount, note when it happened, and contact your veterinarian, an emergency clinic, or a pet poison helpline.

No. Dogs should not drink coffee or eat coffee grounds, beans, pods, espresso beans, or caffeine products. If your dog drank coffee or ate a coffee product, estimate the amount and timing, note your dog's weight, and contact your veterinarian, an emergency clinic, or a pet poison helpline for case-specific advice.

No. Dogs should not eat garlic. If your dog ate fresh garlic, cooked garlic, garlic powder, garlic salt, garlic bread, garlic pills, or food cooked with garlic, identify the form and amount, note the time, and contact your veterinarian, an emergency clinic, or a pet poison helpline for case-specific advice.

No. Dogs should not eat grapes. If your dog ate grapes, raisins, currants, sultanas, grape juice, raisin bread, or a grape-containing product, contact your veterinarian, an emergency clinic, or a pet poison helpline immediately.

No. Dogs should not eat macadamia nuts. If your dog ate macadamia nuts, mixed nuts, macadamia nut cookies, or white chocolate macadamia cookies, estimate the amount and timing, note your dog's weight, and contact your veterinarian, an emergency clinic, or a pet poison helpline.

No. Dogs should not eat onions. If your dog ate raw onion, cooked onion, onion powder, onion rings, green onion, red onion, or food cooked with onions, identify the form and amount, note the time, and contact your veterinarian, an emergency clinic, or a pet poison helpline for case-specific advice.

No. Dogs should not eat raisins. If your dog ate raisins, raisin bread, oatmeal raisin cookies, trail mix, granola, currants, sultanas, or any raisin-containing product, contact your veterinarian, an emergency clinic, or a pet poison helpline immediately.

No. Xylitol is highly toxic to dogs. If your dog ate xylitol gum, candy, peanut butter, baked goods, medicine, supplements, toothpaste, mouthwash, or any product that may contain xylitol or birch sugar, contact your veterinarian, an emergency clinic, or a pet poison helpline immediately.

Yes. Most healthy dogs can eat small pieces of plain, washed cucumber as an occasional treat. Cut it into bite-sized pieces, skip seasonings, and do not treat pickles as the same food.