Note to self...

[SweetWitch]

Have long talk in morning with offspring about feeding chocolate to small dog.

 

[TE999]

Have long talk in morning with offspring about feeding chocolate to small dog.

That's not a good thing is it?

 

[SweetWitch]

That's not a good thing is it?

My living room is littered with the evidence of destruction and I'm too tired and chewed up to deal with it tonight. The pup finally crashed out. Reminds me of the speed freaks I knew in college.

 

[TE999]

My living room is littered with the evidence of destruction and I'm too tired and chewed up to deal with it tonight. The pup finally crashed out. Reminds me of the speed freaks I knew in college.

Jeeminy! You mean the chokky freaked the pup out? I know it makes the little ones hyper, but I had no idea it did that to dogs.

 

[lance gt]

Chocolate is almost poison to dogs. Got warned by the vet several times about it. Choc. dog treats aren't even good.

 

[sadangel]

Chocolate is almost poison to dogs. Got warned by the vet several times about it. Choc. dog treats aren't even good.

I found out through research that neither are onions or raisins. They cause severe kidney problems for dogs.

 

[swingcpl]

Chocolate is almost poison to dogs. Got warned by the vet several times about it. Choc. dog treats aren't even good.

I too, have a small dog. She ate a 1/4 of a hersheys bar that i had mistakingly left on the coffee table.
Here is a table of reference


White chocolate: 200 ounces per pound of body weight. It takes 250 pounds of white chocolate to cause signs of poisoning in a 20-pound dog, 125 pounds for a 10-pound dog.

Milk chocolate: 1 ounce per pound of body weight. Approximately one pound of milk chocolate is poisonous to a 20-pound dog; one-half pound for a 10-pound dog. The average chocolate bar contains 2 to 3 ounces of milk chocolate. It would take 2-3 candy bars to poison a 10 pound dog. Semi-sweet chocolate has a similar toxic level.

Sweet cocoa: 0.3 ounces per pound of body weight. One-third of a pound of sweet cocoa is toxic to a 20-pound dog; 1/6 pound for a 10-pound dog.
Baking chocolate: 0.1 ounce per pound body weight. Two one-ounce squares of bakers' chocolate is toxic to a 20-pound dog; one ounce for a 10-pound dog.

 

[lance gt]

And I love dark chocolate too. The higher the percentage, the better for me, bit it's as lethal as anti freeze on the driveway to him.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

However, as Molly found out, chocolate is genuine speed for doggy brains. They love the stuff but it usually isn't worth the owner's pain and suffering. The terrorier will, rarely, get the equivalent of one chocolate chip. Any more and it's madness time . . . for both of us!

 

[SweetWitch]

In this case it's a dark chocolate Dove Promise and a tiny, four-and-a-half pound Bichon puppy. Little Lucy is feeling a mite hung-over this morning. Well, as it seems the flu has hit our happy home, we'll all be staying home anyway.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Sympathies to the entire Wise clan . . . except possibly the cat. You can tell it's sitting in the best chair in the house looking smug.

 

[SweetWitch]

Sympathies to the entire Wise clan . . . except possibly the cat. You can tell it's sitting in the best chair in the house looking smug.

After the torture to which Fuzzball was subjected last night, he's sitting in the cat-bird seat--if you'll pardon the pun. That dog harrassed him constantly to the point the cat actually wanted to get outside. Fuzzy hates the outdoors. I finally took pity on him and put him in the laundry room where he promptly fell asleep on a pile of dirty towels.

Today, whenever the pup gets near the cat, Fuzzy takes a swipe at her and makes her yelp.

Damn.

I just want peace.