Halloween can be hazardous to your dogs. I never eat chocolate but to
appease the kiddies who stop by on this hallowed day, I have a bunch of
bags of chocolate candy ready to be handed out. Earlier today I had a
brain fart and left a bag on the kitchen table. Anything left on the
kitchen table is fair game for my 10 month old Border Collie. So I left
for an hour and came back to see that she ate half the bag of Nestles
crunches. Luckily it took awhile for her to open all the little
packages but she managed to eat about 14 little bars or about 7 oz. of
chocolate. Eleven unopened packages littered my kitchen floor.

After an initial panic set in I searched the web and found this site.

http://www.apogeecomgrp.com/drkevin/chocolate.html

At most she ate 7oz x 60mg theobromine/oz = 420mg of theobromine.
According to the web site the lethal dosage is 250 - 400mg/kg and Zoe
weighs in at around 30lbs now or almost 14kg. Therefore I think she'll
be OK. She seems OK now.

Food for thought. I'm sure Halloween must be a terrible time for dog
poisoning. Normally I'm very careful about making sure Zoe doesn't get
into anything dangerous but it only takes one little over sight. I
think if I had 5 bags out there and gave her enough time she would have
eaten them all. Luckily all chocolate is out of my house after today.

Here's some pics of Zoe the Coyote.

http://www.brandylion.com/gallery/Zoe

Mark Anderson wrote:

Here's some pics of Zoe the Coyote.

http://www.brandylion.com/gallery/Zoe


I like the one with her in the water the best. You really see the blue
of her eyes and the motion as she swims.


--Lia

"Julia Altshuler" wrote in message
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Mark Anderson wrote:

Here's some pics of Zoe the Coyote.

http://www.brandylion.com/gallery/Zoe


I like the one with her in the water the best. You really see the blue
of her eyes and the motion as she swims.


--Lia


Me too, man her eyes are gorgeous!


td

"Mark Anderson" wrote in message
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Halloween can be hazardous to your dogs. I never eat chocolate but to
appease the kiddies who stop by on this hallowed day, I have a bunch of
bags of chocolate candy ready to be handed out. Earlier today I had a
brain fart and left a bag on the kitchen table. Anything left on the
kitchen table is fair game for my 10 month old Border Collie. So I left
for an hour and came back to see that she ate half the bag of Nestles
crunches. Luckily it took awhile for her to open all the little
packages...(snip)

She opens them?

My dogs think the wrapping is the best part.
Zoe is beautiful, and I'm glad she's okay.
Karla