Garlic is not at all good for Cats or Dogs

We all love our pets so very dearly, and we want to give them the best of everything of course! Sometimes, determining what is best can be a minefield. Garlic is one of my go to herbs for nipping the onset of morbid sore throats and colds. It must be consumed fresh to get the benefits of the compounds that are effective. Sorry, when you cook it, you also cook away the active compounds. Human livers have no problem metabolizing the active compounds, but our cats and dogs metabolize differently, and garlic is 100% not good for them. You can heed my words or consult your veterinarian or look it up in the pet poisons list. I get angry when I see supplements marketed for our precious cats and dogs that contain garlic extract as an ingredient and I firmly state that you should avidly avoid these. You may have already given your cat or dog a supplement with this ingredient and observed no ill effects, and that is great, your animal dodged a bullet so decease and thank your stars. I cringe at my less educated self of 20 years ago that let my cats and dogs clean up my leftover garlic laden spaghetti. They did not die, but I was not doing them any favors. It was just good fortune that they did not consume enough to damage their bodies. Anything in the allium family should not be given to cats and dogs. The Merk manual describes the effects here: www.merckvetmanual.com/toxicology/food-hazards/allium-spp-toxicosis-in-animals
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Supplements for animals marketed with all natural ingredients are fine ideas, but please do your research on each and every ingredient! Just because it works for humans does not at all mean it does the same for animals. This includes pharmaceutical drugs as well. If you cannot find enough reliable evidence to support the use of it, then to not use it is the more humane choice. Often, finding reliable evidence means many queries along many different paths and it does take time. This will be time well spent because it will protect your animals from hidden harm. Look for scientific research rather than claims made by the hawkers of the products and then look for conflicts of interest regarding that scientific research.