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My dog's homemade food has chicken liver with bile. Is it safe?

Updated On September 23rd, 2025

We make her food ourselves and we accidentally cooked the chicken livers with the bile, does this mean we have throw the whole batch away?

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Answered By Tomasz Wnuk

Veterinarian

Published on May 1st, 2020

Hello and thank you for more explanations. If you cooked the liver with the bile, it may not be very tasty. Your dog may refuse to eat it because bile makes the food taste bitter. But it will not cause any health issues.

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