With Thanksgiving comes lots of food to share with family and friends, but you shouldn’t share food with your pet.

Jefferson Veterinarian Dr. Mark Peters discourages anyone from feeding human food to pets because it can cause health and overweight issues, along with other potential dangers.

“(You) can’t be giving them soft bones to chew on, and even pork chop bones, things like that. Short bones or turkey bones, those things can get lodged in the esophagus and stomach area.”

Dr. Peters reminds pet owners to put candy out of the reach of your furry friends.

“Anything that is sweetened with xylitol, which is a synthetic sweetener, those can be toxic to animals too. So we have to be really careful about where we put our food and what we feed them.”

Dr. Peters says if your pet eats chocolate, tiny bones or something else they shouldn’t have consumed and they show signs of being ill, call your local veterinarian for help.