Chocolate and Dogs

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Added: Wed. Dec 22, 2010 9:40pm
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Hello everyone,
Just wanted to post this in hopes of stopping what happened here at my house today to anyone else.
We broke down and got another dog after we lost our Bruno a few months ago. Cute Beagle Lab a year old.Very active and hyper. It's like having a two year old in the house again.We love him to death.
We almost lost him today due to our stupidity.
He got under the Christmas tree and ate a full pound of dark chocolate.
We had no idea he even ate chocolate as a lot of other things were ripped up and strewn everywhere.
It wasn't until my son told my husband that Teddy ate one of his Christmas presents and it was the chocolate.
I got a call at work from my hubby and asked what to do if the dog ate it.
I said hang up and call the vet which he did.
They said bring him right in.
They had to force charcoal down his throat and pump him full of IV fluids,
and watch him carefully.
We got to take him home but we are not out of the woods yet.
I have to give him activated charcoal pills every four hours for three days and he has to be on a bland diet with a tablespoon of Metimusel in it every feeding.
It was a total of 91 mg of caffeine and 33% coco solids that he ingested.
The dog has been bouncing off the walls.
Thats like us drinking 20 pots of coffee.
So please! watch if you have a dog like ours that likes to get into stuff,
Christmas is a time of lots of goodies and dogs are like us they like them too.
Don't put Chocolates under your tree or any place accessable to your doggie.
Heart and liver dammage is what we are fighting right now with Teddy.
They will run a new Liver test in a few days to see if there will be any permenat dammage.
If this makes one person move chocolates out of harms way then I feel better about my day from hell!
Merry Christmas to all and thanks for reading this,
   Sassy