Is Rachael Ray trying to kill dogs?

December 30, 2:12 PMPhoenix Dogs ExaminerDan Olsen

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From Rachael Ray's website:

I miss my girl Boo every minute of every day. Boo was more than a dog; she was a true companion. I can still hear her talking away, snorting and grunting in the background of my busy life. When she passed away suddenly, I became obsessed with finding her again...

We call our new girl Isaboo. Isabella was always my favorite name for a girl, and Boo was my favorite girl, so we combined the names and got "Isaboo." She started taste-testing my newest cookbook right away. We have another really good eater here! Arf-O! (Yum-O!)

The recipe is called, Isaboo's Butternut Squash Mac and Cheddar.  Her site shows a picture of her dog eating the dish.  However, here's the catch...the recipe contains onions.  Onions for crying out loud, and it's in her section called Pet Friendly.  Canine Killers would be a more appropriate title for that recipe.  From the website Petalia we read:

Pets affected by onion toxicity will develop haemolytic anaemia, where the pet’s red blood cells burst while circulating in its body.

At first, pets affected by onion poisoning show gastroenteritis with vomiting and diarrhoea. They will show no interest in food and will be dull and weak. The red pigment from the burst blood cells appears in an affected animal’s urine and it becomes breathless. The breathlessness occurs because the red blood cells that carry oxygen through the body are reduced in number.

The poisoning occurs a few days after the pet has eaten the onion. All forms of onion can be a problem including dehydrated onions, raw onions, cooked onions and table scraps containing cooked onions and/or garlic. Left over pizza, Chinese dishes and commercial baby food containing onion, sometimes fed as a supplement to young pets, can cause illness.

Onion poisoning can occur with a single ingestion of large quantities or with repeated meals containing small amounts of onion. A single meal of 600 to 800 grams of raw onion can be dangerous whereas a ten-kilogram dog, fed 150 grams of onion for several days, is also likely to develop anaemia. The condition improves once the dog is prevented from eating any further onion.

Hey Rachael, I typically love your show.  Your bright and perky personality are like a ray of sunshine on a cloudy day.  But you seriously need to research your topics before creating dog meals.  Even if it takes less than 30 minutes to prepare this dish, it shouldn't be put in front of a dog.  Please remove the recipe from your website and post a correction stating the harm that recipe will do to our beloved pets.