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Re: Doggie Dilemma
Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 7:28 pm
by DisneyMom
Try Bitter Apple Spray for Schnitzel. ;)
I forgot- had a cocker mix that ate 2 sets of curtains, my $250.00 glasses-expensive in 1987- and most of my mail when she was a pup. I must have been forgiving because she lived to be 16 years old
Re: Doggie Dilemma
Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 10:11 pm
by Cranbiz
DisneyMom wrote:HAHA, reminds me of my giant rottweiler I used to have. She chewed the handle of a bathroom plunger......and a door partially thru the bottom. Otherwise, she was sweet. One night I couldn't find her, finally located her under a bed. With the remainder of a new 20 oz can of hot cocoa Mix. I call 24 hour vet who says, well, she'll be really hyper and POOP A LOT.
They were right
I would have been just frantic, unless the "giving your dog chocolate will kill it" is an urban legend.
Re: Doggie Dilemma
Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 12:34 am
by EeyoresButterfly
It is not an urban legend. Chocolate contains theobromine which is fatal to dogs and cats. It is technically fatal to humans, but we would have to pretty much eat our weight in chocolate to ingest a fatal amount. Dark chocolate is worse than white chocolate. It doesn't take much to kill a dog or cat. That is why the cocoa mulch can also be fatal to dogs and cats, because it contains theobromine.
Re: Doggie Dilemma
Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 3:38 am
by DisneyMom
Yes, I imagine her very large size and perhaps a low concentration of cocoa to powdered milk and sugar in the mix helped. She was hyper, but then she was ALWAYS hyper
Re: Doggie Dilemma
Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 7:17 am
by JugglingFreak
EeyoresButterfly wrote:It is not an urban legend. Chocolate contains theobromine which is fatal to dogs and cats. It is technically fatal to humans, but we would have to pretty much eat our weight in chocolate to ingest a fatal amount. Dark chocolate is worse than white chocolate. It doesn't take much to kill a dog or cat. That is why the cocoa mulch can also be fatal to dogs and cats, because it contains theobromine.
Really, we fed our chihuahua M&Ms all the time and she lived to be 21 years old.
Re: Doggie Dilemma
Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 6:04 pm
by Mar
EeyoresButterfly wrote:Our big chewer is our dachshund that lives with my parents. When he was a puppy Schnitzel ate the linoleum off of the kitchen floor. It was all down hill from there. I don't dare have a watch with a leather band if I'm near him. He also eats my mom's headphones (and then she steals mine and he eats those), books, glasses, paper, etc. The worst was when he ate my University diploma
. I used to sneak him into my room at night, and when I left my parents supposedly redid it and doggy proofed the room, telling me Schnitzel could now sleep in my room sanctioned. Well, one morning when I was staying with my parents, my father asked me what the dog was chewing. Yep, it was my diploma. I still need to get that replaced!
lmao ~ I thought I was the only one! My dachshund chewed up my high school diploma.... only a corner of it though.
Re: Doggie Dilemma
Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 1:24 am
by felinefan
The ASPCA website has the table showing fatal doses of different chocolate types for different weight pets. Not only does the theobromine kick an animal's heartrate into overdrive, inducing heart failure, but they can't process it like we can. White chocolate, I believe, is mainly cocoa butter; the fat doesn't do them any good, either--hence the "poop alot'. But the darker the chocolate, the greater the danger, because less is required to cause cardiac arrest. You see these candy bars with 70% and 85% cocoa, those would be the most deadly.