Chocolate!!!!

[TURBOBERT]

B....dy puppies. Just got in from shopping and unpacking onto the kitchen bench. Put down two 100 gms bars of 70% dark chocolate - a few mins later turned round to find one only - and on checking... the wrapper from the other in the crate of the 11 month old working cocker pup!!! Panic - rang vet - hotfoot down for a 'pump out' - back an hour later with pup looking very sheepish - and £80 lighter!

Still hopefully we wont have to go through another 11 months of puppyhood with a replacement.... all being well

 

[Slinkyunicorn]

Little minxy!!

Fingers crossed puppy is ok!!

 

[Spudlet]

Cocker spaniels... don't you just love em?

I caught Henry licking out the bowl after I'd been making brownies a few weeks ago. Couldn't decide what to tell him off for first - jumping up on the counter, eating chocolate, or stretching the stitches that were then still in after his previous gastronomic experience!

 

[FinnishLapphund]

Admittedly sometimes I think it feels as if they know how to do somethings just so that it will cause the maximum havoc in our lives... Of all the things your puppy could have chosen to eat that you unpacked, of course it had to go for the chocolate.

At least you found out quickly and knew that your puppy needed the vet, I know there is a few users on here that have dogs with iron-stomachs, but I also remember seeing about an adult Labrador at TV that needed several days of intensive care with severe heart problems that was very close to dying, she had eaten more than one large bar of dark chocolate and it was not discovered right away.



Glad your puppy is okay.

 

[TURBOBERT]

So far so good - back to being his irritating self again! Hopefully OK in the morning.....I suppose I shouldnt even think about it - but if he had eaten the wrapper as well - I probably wouldnt have realised what had happened

 

[ladyearl]

funny chocolate eating story - not related but still funny.

Christmas a few years ago and I was walking a Scottie. Owner rang to ask if I'd seen the "gift" she'd left on the table. No I hadn't anyway next thing Scottie poops and out comes some silver paper. He'd eaten my "gift" wrapper and all and I had the pleasure of "scooping" my own gift for the next few days!!!

 

[salee]

dogs seem to have a built in death wish for what not to eat or chew, my cocker spaniel disconnected my Internet by chewing but not completely breaking a power lead, 1 more tiny nibble and he would have gone up in a blue flash!

i worked for a vet as a kid, just a general goferr. here is a quick story.

the vets had a 'name' for a sickness that happens to new pups they called it......

Xmas pup syndrome, (XPS)

it was for the sort of tummy upset new pups get when every member of the family gives it a treat or tit bit thinking its just them, or that a little won't hurt it, with the result the pups digestion goes crackers, sick, belly ache, poops everywhere.

they knew no owner will ever admit they do this, and if you tell them - NO FOOD FOR 12 /24 HOURS - they will start feeding the pup 'just a bit' too soon and it will all start again

it was basically a code to say this pup has been fed badly, keep it in overnight on a rest diet and let the poor sod have some peace.

another fictitious disease was K.B.K (killing by kindness) often the effect of chronic Xmas puppy syndrome, no amount of nagging or advice or dire warnings seem to get through to those owners.

you can take an idiot to advice....but you cannot make it think!

 

[Spudlet]

I have heard vets also use AMITO which stands for Animal More Intelligent Than Owner.


Is this true???