Chocolate

[Michael Romanos]

Here are bits from a local news item in New Zealand about a dog that nearly died from eating a box of chocolates:
" Dogs go crazy over chocolate. They'll break into anything to get it and they don't know when to stop. The darker the chocolate, the more poisonous it is for dogs. A king size block of energy chocs is sufficient to be lethal for a 35kg Labrador. Chocolate contains a compound named theobromine which is highly poisonous for dogs. Apart from liver collapse, it could cause irritability, high heart rate, vomiting, increased urinating, muscular tremors and in extreme cases, death."

[Lady's Daddy]

Lady never pays any attention to us when we eat chocolate. I do not like chocolate very much so she doesn't see me very often eating it. She wants to eat any other kind of food we eat, but for some reason she acts uninterested when we do have chocolate. It's like she knows not to eat it. I don't really think that she knows that, but it is odd that she doesn't make a fuss when we do have it.

[Chip's Mom]

Years ago, Jasmine ate a whole box of chocolate covered cherries (at that time I didn't realize chocolate was poisonous to dogs) anyway she was very fortunate - no complications but I learned my lesson and chocolate is kept high on the shelves.

[corgimom]

Bonnie, talking about chocolate covered cherries, many years ago also, my son brought home chocolate covered cherries and left them in a box, open, on his bed. We later found that day, that my Pem, Betsy had eaten half the box, but had spit out most of the cherry parts

[Chip's Mom]

My son always buys me a box of chocolate covered cherries for Christmas and I had left the opened box minus one on the end table Christmas night and Jasmine just helped herself to the whole box and never did get sick but jasmine has a stomach of iron. That is funny that Betsy spit out the cherries, she must not have liked them. Glad she didn't get sick though.

[Dillydoodle]

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