hmm

petpoisonhelpline.com/poisons via lifehacker.com/common-foods-that-are-toxic-to-dogs-1726257825

looks useful in the sense of "I never want to have to use it"

@JourneymanGeek Yikes! Exactly.

He's growing so fast

So far he’s limited his intake of questionable items to wood, cardboard, pebbles, cotton and probably a handful of garden soil.

lol

Ash once hid a dessicated lizard in his mouth

@JourneymanGeek Hopefully not that much more in size, but he’ll probably “fill out” a bit.

On the other hand, he was looking very suspecious

Not that he’d be skinny.

@Stephie he actually looks a bit smaller than the two GSDs I know

@JourneymanGeek Ha! Hubby’s previous GSD once came inside with a toad. But that was apparently yuck enough to spit it out unharmed.

I don’t think the first few slugs were that lucky.

@JourneymanGeek all a matter of perspective and the distortion by an iPhone camera?

Last weekend, checking out the world from one of the balconies.

lol

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Hi, congratulations Elmy the Moderator for first ever gold tag badge for dogs! Now, you are able to close questions with this tag as duplicates with a SINGLE vote! A M A Z I N G ! Please take your time in celebrating this, I would guess it might be difficult to get used to having so much P O W E R !

Oh "gold tag badge", I missed the opportunity to call it "urine-colored circle medal", too bad :(

@lila If your pee is that colour you need to drink more water

Haha that's correct, thanks for taking concern, fortunately it was just a figure of speech, my pee is light hay color to almost transparent \o/

@lila oh wow, thank you. I don't know if I'll ever get used to su much power. With great power, great responsibility comes, as said master yoda.

Funny thing about SE: I have the most rep on Pets and am even a mod, but I have twice as many gold badges and only half as much rep on The Workplace

Wow not twice but three times as much actually, nice! I looked at them and for me it is obvious that the reason is more traffic going to Workplace SE; one of the urine-colored circles is "lifeboat" which arguably suggests poor voting culture on the site in my opinion, but may also be that just more traffic and activity causes more instances of such occurrences.

And I embarrassed myself again and again :/ "urine-colored circles" while badges on Workplace are squares :(

Yeah, the traffic there is insane. Whoever answers first gets the most votes, regardless of answer quality

My mom just found my old medical examination result about lead blood levels from almost 20 years ago that I recently asked about because I was curious; my hometown is not big but quite industrialized and in school they measured all children's lead blood levels because of this. My results were 4.1 mcg/dL which was within "safe" limit but elevated nonetheless. I blame it for all my non-bright behaviors I am aware of :/ leaded gasoline hadn't been banned where I live until I was ~ 7 years old. :(

For reference, "safe" concentration is less than 10.0 mcg/dL for adults and less than 5.0 mcg/dL for children, but these are just guideline values; lead is a neurotoxin with no safety threshold and any non-zero value is capable of causing adverse effects; the only actually safe level is 0 and anything above could cause adverse effects.

A sad and frightening this is that our bodies mistake lead for calcium and treat it like calcium (ions of those metals both have got the same charge of +2); it means that some of body lead gets built-it into bones as if it was calcium; bones act as a "reserve" of calcium and in cases of mild calcium deficiency, it is naturally corrected by the body via "borrowing" the calcium from the giant reserve bank that bones are.

Wow, I don't know if I was ever tested for lead levels, although I also remember a time where gasoiline had lead and two-stroke engines blew unburned gasoline into the air.

But if these is lead in the bones, it gets released together with the calcium; it means that even if your blood levels are "safe", it is not guarantee that your bones are pristine from this toxin and will not start poisoning you back again sometime in the future.

But I guess that's still better than arsenic in wallpaper... You have to count your wins where you can

Oh, didn't think about that. As a child with growing bones I guess you absorb more lead than an adult (but I have no idea if that's correct)

Haha of course, we have come a long way as a society, I am not actually really traumatized by being aware of these results of my blood tests, I have no way to change this and it could have been a lot worse. Arsenic in wallpaper is great example, the more you go back in time the more horrific things you find you used to be "normal". Other examples are lead-based paint (lead white) that often caused poisoning in children, sometimes fatal (paradoxically, lead ions have a sweet taste and ...

...encourage further consumption by children who were chewing loose paint chips). In Victorian times, it was popular to use mercury chloride (calomel) as oral medicine to "treat" various disorders. It did actually work in some cases because it acts as laxative. Many people, however, died because of its use.

@Elmy Oh absolutely, that is one of the reasons why it is much more dangerous for children than for adults.

Ah, and don't forget the vitalizing properties of radioactive radon in drinking water and toothpaste!

Or x-raying your childrens feet in the new shoes to see if they fit

I wonder what people in 100 years think about the health hazzards that are normal to us

From the new answer: "[...]If he's at the top of the stairs, he can throw the treat into her direction.[...]" I do not know why but this instantly reminds me of one of my favourite playground kindergarten insults that is "u are so ugly and repulsive that ur parents used to feed you via the slingshot" :D :D :D

@lila Oh wow, that's mean XD

One more thing which I learnt from local playground children so long ago that I almost forgot about it: children were insulting each other by showing "the finger" (middle finger), but a modified version where you show 3 fingers (2nd, 3rd, and 4th) instead of just the 3rd; they were calling it "the finger in parenthesis" :D by the way, if someone thinks the slingshot quote is poor taste then tell me please and I will delete it.

@Elmy Oooh I heard about radioactive hype a million times, but this thing with x-raying feet in new shoes is new :o wow, what an idea!

@Sarov Hey you seem to be really good in both asking and answering questions like this pets.stackexchange.com/q/31391 maybe please consider writing answer for this? Owner acc*pted answer already but the bounty is separate from this and I would guess you have a good chance to get it.