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Cocker Specific Discussion => Health => Topic started by: grab on August 11, 2009, 02:02:59 PM
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Bit of a panic last night.
Got a pack of chocolate tiffin biscuits from the Co-op last night, and ate all of them except one. The remaining one was sat in the packet on the coffee table next to the sofa. Being clumsy, I knocked my drink over, so we both got cloths to wipe up. After we'd put the cloths back, we came back in and found Judi snuffling around on the floor. Lots of chocolatey crumbs around, and no other sign of the remaining bit of tiffin!
Not knowing at the time how much chocolate was harmful, we rang up our vet's out-of-hours line, who said she'd be fine. I re-read Bruce Fogle afterwards and spotted the bit Emma had missed, which reckoned 100g of cooking chocolate was the fatal dose for a 4kg dog; scaled up it'd probably take a kilo of milk chocolate for a fatal dose, so 7g (worked out from the label ingredients) wasn't going to be serious. Now we know, at least.
And I also know not to leave anything on a coffee table, even if I'm planning on being there permanently to guard it, because anything could happen which needs immediate attention, and Judi's too cunning not to take full advantage of that! :/
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I sympathise with you having been there & done that with Purdey, when she ate an entire box of Thorntons chocolates (wrappers & all!!)
Luckily she was 'as sick as a dog' & suffered no lasting damage :020:
glad to hear Judi's fine after her little feast (lucky you only left one ;) )