Pet Owners

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[MissFM]

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....and chocolate is a killer for dogs (an irreversible poison )

[TUTTSI]

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Also the snow where grit and salt has been thrown on the snow. It is very dangerous for your pets as there is something in the mix that is very poisonous.

[VeryWorried]

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Also anti freeze time of year we use it (apparently is has a sweet taste) so make sure you put it away if you have pets.

[TUTTSI]

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Also Dog treats made in China have been known in USA to kill hundreds of dogs

[CleverClogs]

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Also Dog treats made in China have been known in USA to kill hundreds of dogs

That would probably be the melamine which they'd recycled from Chinese baby formula milk.

[CleverClogs]

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Also the snow where grit and salt has been thrown on the snow. It is very dangerous for your pets as there is something in the mix that is very poisonous.

Could the poison be protium hydroxide?

[CleverClogs]

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....and chocolate is a killer for dogs (an irreversible poison )

So it is said, but my dogs ate chocolate - in moderation - enjoyed it and survived.

It is also said that grapes are "deadly" to dogs but, if that is true, how was it that my dogs survived eating a raisin-filled Christmas pudding?

[MissFM]

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So it is said, but my dogs ate chocolate - in moderation - enjoyed it and survived.

It is also said that grapes are "deadly" to dogs but, if that is true, how was it that my dogs survived eating a raisin-filled Christmas pudding?

Most of the stuff sold as chocolate contains very little actual chocolate hence your dogs were lucky that you gave them ersatz choc with minimal theobromine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theobromine_poisoning

[dogtired]

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We live by the sea and my dog ate some discarded bait, she was very ill so watch her all the time now.
She also stole a chocolate yesterday, hope she is ok.

[TUTTSI]

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that is disgusting CC.

You posted this last year and it provoked as little mirth and as much upset as it will this year:colbert:

[CleverClogs]

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that is disgusting CC.

I'd wondered where the Tabby Tote "advert" had gone - and I couldn't recall having posted it last year. Needless to say, very few Tabby Totes were ever made.

Did I post about Bonsai Kittens last year?

[CleverClogs]

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Most of the stuff sold as chocolate contains very little actual chocolate hence your dogs were lucky that you gave them ersatz choc with minimal theobromine

Nonsense - I've never much cared for the slimy muck sold in the UK as "milk chocolate" - but the important detail is that I gave them chocolate in moderation. A few scraps of a half-enrobed plain chocolate digestive biscuit would hardly contain enough theobromine to kill an old cat, let alone harm a healthy dog.

Besides, they mostly preferred ginger nuts.

[MissFM]

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Nonsense - I've never much cared for the slimy muck sold in the UK as "milk chocolate" - but the important detail is that I gave them chocolate in moderation. A few scraps of a half-enrobed plain chocolate digestive biscuit would hardly contain enough theobromine to kill an old cat, let alone harm a healthy dog.

Besides, they mostly preferred ginger nuts.

You are probably correct that a plain "chocolate" digestive would not contain enough theobromine but, joking aside, I wouldn't take the risk. The damage is irreversible and the death unpleasant in the extreme.

[CleverClogs]

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Of course, the risk is that the dog likes the taste so much that it goes looking for more, finds them and wolfs down a whole packet when nobody's looking. Fortunately, I had relatively sensible dogs - apart from that one incident with the Christmas pudding, they never stole from shopping bags.

My first dog - a sable and white "border collie" type, but a bit smaller than a pure-bred border collie - helped himself to some nuts one Christmas. He picked them out of a nut bowl that he'd nudged from a shelf under a sideboard, cracked them open with his teeth, spat out the bits of shell and ate the kernels. He also liked orange ice lollies...