Dog with a sweet tooth

[linedancer16]

Got in tonight to find that the dog had been upstairs to the Christmas presents and taken a box of Thorntons toffee from a table, taken it downstairs, opened all the packaging and eaten it all!! Rang the vets to check if it should be ok and he says yes it might have diarrohea for a couple of days but thats all. Still it could have been worse - there were two boxes but it must have had enough after one! I shall have to buy another present now!

[ummmm]

Lol...My dog used to do things like that.

[chrissa1]

One of my Labs ate a Bumper Size Toblerone with no ill affects.

[welshlibranr]

I know how easiy this can happen, however, we need to keep chocs and sweets away from our canine friends!.......not good for them, although they love them!..........Am very careful that my dog can never get hold of anything like this!......

[linedancer16]

I usually do, especially chocolate, and any presents with chocolate in are well out of reach but I never thought he would open a box of toffee! I'll have to see what he's like in the morning when he goes out!

[fliptheswitch]

Our old dog used to like Polo mints... and Turkish Delight.

[welshlibranr]

hope he's fine linedancer!........sure he will be, tummy may be a bit iffy though!......

[paddywak]

It's hard work sometimes, both Trish and I are pretty much chocoholics and Max sits there giving us that "I love chocolate Too" look. We try giving him doggy chocs but he picks them up, spits them out and gives us that "you can't fool me that's not proper chocolate" look.

[owdhamer]

Our neighbours dog has a taste for briches arse,

[linedancer16]

He could be feeling it a bit now! He's just left the few biscuits he has just before bed! Time will tell.

[Postdog]

Of course the really sad part of this is that you missed the faces he pulled when chewing the toffee.

[SueMoneyRowley]

Our dog onc ewent down one of the carrier bags I'd left by the door while I brought the others in, and pinched a beef tomato - and ate it! Obviously on a diet!!!

[lankeela]

One of my friends (3) dogs ate a large bar of orange flavour chocolate last week - vet made all three sick and it was the last one (the least likely to have eaten it) that actually brought it back up. Definitely enough to kill a small dog like ours. It amazes me when people say they have always given their dog things like this with no ill effects as though they are immune from problems - one day it could be fatal.

[wolf63]

My mum used to buy sweeties for us from the shop at her work each Friday - and she would buy the dog a big bar of Yorkie chocolate. He loved it and refused to share. He was a big dog which is just as well.

[icemaiden]

Had a Golden Retriever that ate almost a tin of Quality streets, wrappers as well! Managed to prise the lid off somehow. Luckily he was fine.

Also had a Gsd years ago that ate all the hanging chocolate off the Xmas tree! Again, luckily, no ill effects. He also like apple cores.

[RATTER15]

Chocolate is "poisonous" to dogs, so just because some dogs have survived with no ill affects it appears that some people will continue to feed it them.

How strange some people are!!

[NOX]

I don't think people are ' strange' ratter- I think they are drawing from their own experience. We all know that chocolate is poisonous to dogs, but to most of the dog owning community this is recent knowledge ( the last 20 years or so)- before that it was a routine treat for a huge number of dogs. Certainly when I was a kid in the 60's I used to buy my dog a bar of chocolate everytime I had one - and the old cliche ' never hurt her' proved true in that case.
Obviously I wouldn't do it now, and niether would anyone else I know, but it doesn't stop the anecdotal stories of dogs which have survived a lifetime of chocolate unscathed.
One could say the same about alcohol and people.

[lankeela]

You probably just never heard about the ones who died.

[bednobs]

i think milk chocolate is probably better and why loads of dogs don't die - it's something in plain chocolate isn't it?
no matter how careful you are, they are little buggers. One of my dogs once ate 2 azothiaprine tablets (we never knew which one) We had to pay for the vet to phone the poisons unit and monitor them closely for a few weeks. He had to give them both some sort of charcoal concoction too. They were in a drawer that was closed!

[RATTER15]

Nox, >>One could say the same about alcohol and people.<< correct one could, but people are informed of their choices and can make their own mind up knowing the risks, try explaining the pro's and con's of eating chocolate to the dog. :)

[SlackAlice]

My mothers dog (Cairn Terrier) absolutely adored toffee sweets, stickier the better.
The dog was allowed one a week. You could often hear her sucking away on the toffee because it had stuck to the roof of her mouth. You couldn't open her jaws either because she she was determined to keep it.