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01-12-2006, 08:05 PM | #1 |
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| Sad or Funny?? Ok...my initial reaction to this story was to laugh but the more I thought about it, it was sad. My bf's mom owns 3 dogs...not sure of the breeds. She loves them to death and spoils them. They get regular vet visits and have a healthy diet. One day she was asking us if skin diseases are contagious because after one of her dogs got a rash problem, the other 2 developed rashes as well. She went to the vet and all he said was to put on ointment and change shampoo which she did, but nothing changed. One day, my bf was eating chocolate and his mom was like "oh, my dogs love that kind" and we were like WHAT?? Dogs CANNOT eat chocolate!! She obviously didn't know that they are lactose intolerant and cannot digest coco. She finally stopped feeding them chocolate and not the doggies are recuperating. I'm just glad that they're fine now. No real harm done. Am I mean for laughing?
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01-12-2006, 08:06 PM | #2 |
Donating YT 14K Club Member | I wouldn't say you were mean at all but it's sad what could have happened to her furbabies. That was so dangerous but she didn't know. Glad that they are going to be okay!
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01-12-2006, 08:14 PM | #3 |
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| I think it is sad at how niave people can be. At least you were able to catch her before to much harm was done.
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01-12-2006, 10:03 PM | #4 |
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| I don't think it's funny. I'm glad that she learned her dogs shouldn't eat chocolate. My dogs actually have had a small bite of chocolate here and their all their lives - but only a very small piece This has never hurt them. My young daughter once gave one of our dogs a hershey bar. He ate the whole thing - of course. This worried me and I kept a close eye on him, but he had no bad effects and only wanted more...which he didn't get. We do know that chocolate is not good for dogs and that certain types of chocolate are much worse than others. Am I wrong - lactose intolerance is an intolerance to dairy products. Does this include chocolate??? Carol Jean |
01-12-2006, 10:13 PM | #5 | |
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and no, I don't think you're mean. You were probably just laughing at her ignorance to the subject of dogs and chocolate. She's lucky that she didn't kill them though.
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01-12-2006, 10:37 PM | #6 | |
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The kind kids leave lying around. | |
01-12-2006, 11:11 PM | #7 |
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| Chocolate is the third leading cause of poisoning in dogs and it does have acumulative effect and the poison contiunes to build over their life as they eat more and more chocolate. It does not leave their systems. It can be fatal in some. Please do not feed your babies chocolate. |
01-13-2006, 04:51 AM | #8 |
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| I am guilty of giving mine chocolate in very small amounts as a treat.They have always been fine and get blood work every 3 months (thank god for pet insurance! lol) so I would know if it was poisening them or hurting them in anyway buy now. Those lists of toxics are great and its great that they exist,but many people have given their dogs foods on those lists for YEARS without any problems what so ever. Years ago there wasnt such thing as kibble and people always fed their dogs left overs.Dogs ate human food for years and lived just as long as dogs do now. For example,I know alot of people who give their dogs chocolate,red meat,onion (those who boil veggies and meat as a meal) garlic,raisins,grapes (again as small treats)..etc,and their dogs are totally fine.I think that the list is their as precaution,but its not a bible Not everything on that list is going to hurt a dog,Iv seen that myself. Having said that,Im not saying that the list should be ignored at all..I think its helpful,just slightly exagerated.I hope Iv made my point.I just wanted you all to know that us who chose to give our babies a little forbidden treat (when its not hurting them of course) arent bad mommies at all.Humans eat alot of things they shouldent just because they LOVE it and he we all are. |
01-13-2006, 05:30 AM | #9 |
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| Chocolate is a problem, not because of lactose intolerance, but because the cocoa is poisonous to them. In fact, milk chocolate is not as deadly as dark chocolate because it contains less concentrated chocolate. Dogs should not consume either type of chocolate, but my vet told me that milk chocolate was a lot LESS dangerous. |
01-13-2006, 05:31 AM | #10 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Kansas
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| I am very careful about the food I feed my dogs. However, when I was growing up, all our dogs ever ate was leftovers from our table and maybe a little dog food. Our dogs ate everything and lived for years. I can remember having several Cockers, Boxers, German Shepards, Fox Terriers. Maybe dogs were tougher back then. Now that I have read the list of things that dogs can't eat, I am a little paranoid. One of the ladies that works for me said yesterday her tiny toy poodle had eaten a whole supersize candy bar. I asked her if he was alright. She said he was fine that it wasn't the first one he had eaten. She said one time he got into a box of cherry chocolates and ate all of them and spit the cherries out on the floor. Another employee said her dog, a beagle had got up on the table and ate about 12 chocolate cupcakes with chocolate frosting and never showed any signs of being sick, etc. They both said they were just mad at their dogs for eating their cupcakes - candybars. |
01-13-2006, 06:45 AM | #11 |
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| Same experience here. I really believe it's because we keep these furbabies in the house and we see every little thing they do. I remember only having yard dogs growing up and the ewuuuu stuff they would eat - and survive. I wouldn't intentinally give my pups (inside or outside) something I knew was bad for them, but good grief, they like variety as much as we do!
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