Warning to dog owners!!

[LMH]

Grrrrrrr

I spent all last night wrapping presents. I put them in the spare room, all in individual bags for each person.

Stupidly, I left all the bags with the presents inside on the floor.

Guess what? One of the dogs 'disappeared' my husband found her in the spare bedroom. Three boxes of Thorntons chocolates had been 'unwrapped' and the boxes nibbled, along with a box of shortbread biscuits.

She didn't manage to actually eat the contents, but the cost of the three boxes of chocolates was £60. I can't give them as gifts now.

I guess we'll have to eat them. Cloud, silver lining perhaps but how bloomin annoying, not to mention expensive.

Lisa

 

[machighlander]

you spent all night wrapping three boxes of chocolates ?, hmm.

 

[Saladdodger]

Lisa.

Not to mention the danger to dogs by eating chocolate. It can be leathal.

PS Merry Christmas

 

[machighlander]

read the post, didn't eat the contents.

 

[Saladdodger]

I did Read the post but Lisa pouches could of eaten the chocks.

My point was / is to be aware that chockies potentially make dogs very ill.

SD

 

[BrianStAlbans]

read the post, didn't spend all night wrapping three boxes of chocolates

Brian ;O)

 

[LMH]

I spent all last night wrapping presents, numerous presents actually.

Certain chocolate products, can have a mild to lethal effect on canines, I bloody know that. Pure baking chocolate is the most toxic but milk chocolate is less harmful.

If my dog had ingested a substantial amount of chocolate, then I would have induced vomiting, then sought vetinary treatment immediately. (I would have induced vomitting because, unlike digested bones, stomach contents (chocolate) will come back up nicely and not do any damage. Bones however, can do more damage 'coming back up' when induced vomiting is done. A tip, if you think your dog has digested sharp bones or cooked bones, get some cotton wool balls, soak the cotton wool balls in warm milk, lather with cream cheese and encourage the dog to eat them. The amount of cotton wool balls varies, depending on the size and weight of the dog. Any fragments of bone which breaks off, will attach itself to the cotton wool balls and will be passed through the gut.

I can't believe anyone would think I spent all night wrapping three boxes of chocolates, I know they were expensive but blimey, the boxes wern't that big. ;O)

Lisa

 

[BrianStAlbans]

I can't believe you ate the chocolates and blaimed the dog.

Merry Xmas Lisa

Brian , Bina , Kean and Joel.

 

[LMH]

Brian, it's amazing what dog's get blamed for.

We had a couple of greyhounds (racers) years ago, and one of them got blamed for eating 'a whole cheesecake'. But that's not for here as the lady from Fat Fighers would say.

Happy Christmas to you, Bina, Kean and Joel too. I bet your lads have really grown since last time I saw them.

Lisa xxxxxx

 

[BrianStAlbans]

Much to Bina's annoyance Kean is taller than her.

He's only 11

;O)

 

[LMH]

Blimey, he must take after you then.

I bumped into one of my daughter's old school pals the other night. He's 17 and like a giant.

Lisa xx

 

[Lord Braykewynde]

My wife had left some Christmas cards ready to deliver on the stool this afternoon. Later this evening the puppy came ambling round to me while sat at my puter with a card in his mouth.

I said "hey, where you going with that" and took it off him. I looked at the envelope and it was to the vets ... heh! heh!

I think he was off delivering it. I didn't realise how clever he was being able to read.

 

[C_374479958]

Should have left them on view, the dog wouldn't have stood a chance

 

[colin-yorkshire1]

hi, how much chocolate is bad for dogs then ours has been sharing my choccy biscuits since she was a pup now she's 14 years old thats a hell of a lot of chocolate folks.

 

[LMH]

hi, how much chocolate is bad for dogs then ours has been sharing my choccy biscuits since she was a pup now she's 14 years old thats a hell of a lot of chocolate folks.

Hi Colin

If it's milk chocolate I think the rule of thumb is if a dog eats about 22 ounces plus of milk chocolate, it should start to have an effect.

Our dogs get a chocolate now and then with no adverse effects. In fact the dog above found and ate half a layer of milk chocolates hidden (from the dog) in my daughters wardrobe. The dog was fine.

There's quite a few things which are poisonous to dogs, off the top of my head include, onions, caffine, certain nuts, grapes and raisins, certain artificial sweetners, yeast dough, mouldy food, fruit pips.

I'm going to ring HM Customs to ask if they'd be interested in using my dog as a 'Belgium Chocolate' sniffer dog, looking for people bringing back illegal chocolates.;O)

Lisa

 

[colin-yorkshire1]

hi, how much chocolate is bad for dogs then ours has been sharing my choccy biscuits since she was a pup now she's 14 years old thats a hell of a lot of chocolate folks.

thanks lisa that is very informative.

 

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Hi,

My dogs get no where bones, so ittle chance of them vomiting little bits back up.

But we did have a GSD that has eaten .... a glass tumbler ..... a tincan ..... and a platic scubbing brush. All were returned, in little pieces, well mixed with something slimy and unpleasant.

He lived till he was 12, in which he was lucky. He had four largish goldfish out of the pond before I realised who was taking them.

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