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Offline mumknowsbest

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Diarrhoea
« on: September 01, 2012, 07:47:59 AM »
Hello,

Yesterday afternoon our Maddie nearly 8 months managed to grab a tub of chocolate brownies and demolish the lot in seconds!! only now since last night she has had really mad Diarrhoea - Im assuming its because of all the brownies but wondered should I still feed her today and if so should she have her normal food or something else till it settles?

She went on a proper hyper last night and couldnt calm her down for hours!!

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Offline Ruby Tuesday

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Re: Diarrhoea
« Reply #1 on: September 01, 2012, 08:10:25 AM »
To be honest, I'd give your vet a ring. Chocolate has a chemical in it which is poisonous to dogs. I don't know what the symptoms are to look out for.

I'm sure she'll be fine but better safe than sorry.

Naughty pup! ;)
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Re: Diarrhoea
« Reply #2 on: September 01, 2012, 10:00:19 AM »
Quote from: Ruby Tuesday on September 01, 2012, 08:10:25 AM
To be honest, I'd give your vet a ring. Chocolate has a chemical in it which is poisonous to dogs. I don't know what the symptoms are to look out for.

I'm sure she'll be fine but better safe than sorry.

Naughty pup! ;)

I totaly agree with Ruby Tuesday  ;)
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Re: Diarrhoea
« Reply #3 on: September 01, 2012, 10:03:00 AM »
Chocolate is very bad for dogs. I've been through this with Jess after she ate half a bar of Green and Black's which is dark chocolate so it's the worst kind. She got through it, but became very sensitised to chocolate and so just licking a bowl that had contained chocolate ice cream as it went into the dishwasher set her off again even worse than before. I'd say take her to the vet if the diarrhoea goes on much longer as she may be getting dehydrated.
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Offline elaine.e

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Re: Diarrhoea
« Reply #4 on: September 01, 2012, 11:31:24 AM »
Are you able to calculate how much chocolate or cocoa powder was in the tub of brownies? That's important because the darker the chocolate the less is needed to poison a dog. Cocoa powder is even worse. I had to phone the vet after I dropped some cocoa powder on the floor and William managed to get one good lick at it before I pushed him out of the way. Luckily I knew how much the cocoa powder weighed because I'd just weighed it to make a cake. I scraped the rest off the floor and re-weighed so I was able to tell the vet how much William had ingested. Fortunately it was an extremely small amount and not enough to poison him.

This article http://www.vetrica.com/care/dog/chocolate.shtml explains about chocolate poisoning and near the foot of it has the amounts that can be toxic according to the type of chocolate and weight of the dog.

Please phone your vet urgently if you think Maddie has eaten a dangerous amount. Chocolate takes a long time to work through a dog's digestive system so even if she seems back to normal by now please be very careful.
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Offline Ruby Tuesday

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Re: Diarrhoea
« Reply #5 on: September 02, 2012, 08:04:24 AM »
How is she now? :)
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Re: Diarrhoea
« Reply #6 on: September 03, 2012, 02:10:39 PM »
Hi


Hope Maddie's feeling better today :'(


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Re: Diarrhoea
« Reply #7 on: September 11, 2012, 04:09:44 PM »
Hi, it would nice to have an update on Maddie please. Hope she's OK now :D
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