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My mum owns a dog training business and always tells people that chocolate is actually poisonous to dogs but they dont listen. She had a call yesterday from a friend who had taken her dog to the vets and while she was there saw what happens when a dog gets poisoned from chocolate! Not very nice! The dog had stolen half a bar of chocolate from the cupboard, when he'd eaten it he started fitting and being violently ill which was still happening when they got him to the vets. It gave the woman a real wake up call so if you think you're being nice feeding your dog chocolate think again, sadly dont know the outcome of the dog
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A family we know has a Dalmation who is vastly overweight, she's huge poor thing. When I stopped the teenage daughter trying to give my dogs a chocolate biscuit and explained about the risk of chocolate poisoning in dogs, she laughed and insited it was a load of rubbish because 'our dog has it all the time, and she's always been fine', and the mother agreed with her
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Beats me how they can look at their dog and think she's 'fine' when she's clearly about 3 times the size she should be.
Bloody stupid people, it made me so angry, and sad for the poor dog who's obviously destined for an early grave
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I think people have to whitness the reality themselves for it to effect them...I know plenty of people that feed chocolate to their dogs....same as bones cooked or uncooked,and had no problems and I probably would do the same if I had not seen dogs frequently dying from chocolate poisoning and choaking and dying from cooked/uncooked bones.
 
my Vet is in favour of raw bones. I don't think you can put them in the same category as chocolate? Chocolate is toxic and actually poisonous. Bones are not.

Cooked bones are dangerous because they splinter. Dogs can choke on raw bones - or dry dog food or a toy or a stick etc etc. As I'm sure you see in your surgery? I know raw bones are a contentious topic and opinion is very divided - so i totally respect your opinion - I just don't necessarily agree
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(also depends how your dogs eat the bones - mine is very slow when he eats his.)
 
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my Vet is in favour of raw bones. I don't think you can put them in the same category as chocolate? Chocolate is toxic and actually poisonous. Bones are not.

Cooked bones are dangerous because they splinter. Dogs can choke on raw bones - or dry dog food or a toy or a stick etc etc. As I'm sure you see in your surgery? I know raw bones are a contentious topic and opinion is very divided - so i totally respect your opinion - I just don't necessarily agree
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(also depends how your dogs eat the bones - mine is very slow when he eats his.)

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I think u read my thread wrong
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I did not say I disagree...I wrote why I understand people feeding the above mentioned...and said I totally understand...if u dont have a bad experience u are less likely to make a change or have experience of a risk...in regard to anything no just what u feed your dog
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I never mentioned vets advising whether to feed bones or not either.....I simply stated that because I had seen dogs dying of chocolate poisoning and dogs dying with bones lodged or stuck within the body....for this reason I DONT....feed either.
I would never say to anyone...dont feed bones...its a personal choice.
The risks are the same....some dogs can eat buckets loads of chocolate and never had a reaction...some dogs can eat bones and never have a problem....others however are not so lucky
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my Vet is in favour of raw bones. I don't think you can put them in the same category as chocolate? Chocolate is toxic and actually poisonous. Bones are not.

Cooked bones are dangerous because they splinter. Dogs can choke on raw bones - or dry dog food or a toy or a stick etc etc. As I'm sure you see in your surgery? I know raw bones are a contentious topic and opinion is very divided - so i totally respect your opinion - I just don't necessarily agree
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(also depends how your dogs eat the bones - mine is very slow when he eats his.)

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You are absouloutley right...I have seen this at the vet hospitals I work in....although never the choaking on dog food food/mixer.
and this is also the reason....my dogs dont play with toys, sticks....a football is the only toy type object I have
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and the most common I see by far is the bone problem....chocolate tends to be around christmas time or easter when the dog raids the easter egg stash
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But like I said I did not express anopinion...just said why I understand that people feed these thing and why I dont.
 
Raw pork is bad because of the risk of a worm that goes into the brain. So raw pork bones would be bad. My OH's dog isn't allowed to play with sticks - stick injuries. Chocolate is kept on high shelves, which means just in my reach.
 
I believe that cocoa shells used in gardens as a mulch are also toxic if the dog eats enough. Therefore I only use them in the front where no dogs go.

Dog chocloate is different to human toxicity wise, but it doesn't taste nearly as nice. A few squares of expensive chocloate (higher cocoa levels) can kill a Yorkie. Remember that chocolate is highly attractive to dogs and many will steal to get it if it's left in reach.

Also at Christmas (and any other time) keep your booze out of your dogs reach. This isn't good for them either.
 
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never the choaking on dog food food/mixer.


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Stella choked on kibble all the time. I tried to put a kong in there, and a large stone, in an attempt to slow her down, but she is such a gannet--her bowl is emptied in twenty seconds, and then licked clean for a good few minutes.

I feed her cooked food now, but even so, I mash it up well, and add a bit of water.
 
My dog unfortunately ate some revels which we didnt know about until he became very ill in the car vomiting, he was lethargic and then got the most awful squits.

We took him to the vets and he was put on antibiotics and a diet of rice and chicken. He started to get better a few days later thankfully.
 
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