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Ha! Great to know there is a word for this phenomenon.

I encountered this first hand on the Wikipedia page “Substances Poisonous to Dogs” [1] subsection about Onions & Garlic. The only citation eventually self-references the same Wikipedia page from whence you started.

I was already skeptical that the single most common vegetable and ingredient in human food was somehow poisonous to dogs, but now convinced it’s entirely made-up.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substances_poisonous_to_dogs



American kennel club claims garlic is poisonous to dogs, if they eat several cloves per kg body weight... That's a lot of garlic.


Willing to bet a human being would get sick of they ate 200-400 cloves of garlic as well




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