Tuppence and the Christmas chocolate

Granca

Granca

Phew! All seems well, but yesterday, after I had popped out to collect my eldest grandson from work I noticed something on the doormat by the back door. It was the paper, foil and cardboard from a chocolate orange… my chocolate orange, given by that grandson, which I had left on a high shelf (out of dog reach, so I thought) on the bookcase in the sitting room on Christmas Day. Tuppence had knocked over the Advent calendar on the cupboard below and scrambled up to get it. I’d dashed out quickly, telling the dogs I wouldn’t be long and not giving them a Kong, so this was her revenge!

I phoned the vet, expecting to have to take her in, but after a toxicity check was told just to keep an eye on her. This morning she‘s still fine, so it seems to have been a lucky escape.
 
Jacqui-S

Jacqui-S

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Oh goodness @Granca !
I would have been up to hi doh with that one!
Lilly ate some relatively low chocolate content choices one year and was surprised at how little chocolate was in them
A chocolate orange sounds a bit more scary. I think we had a chocolate calculator in The Other Place, but always food to check with your vet in such cases.
Phew!
 
MrChew

MrChew

Now that's persistence. I glad Chewie doesn't really understand the concept of "up" very well.

Also very glad to hear that all is well.
 
Granca

Granca

Loraseal said:
So glad no adverse effects. Sometimes these things just happen. Just wondering if your Tuppence had an interesting number 2?
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Not that I found from what I retrieved in the garden this morning... but then Wispa found some that I'd missed, so I can't be sure. Just hoping eating potentially chocolate contaminated poo doesn't affect her (when not beating myself up for not having eaten the chocolate orange, rather than saving it for later).
 
Lisa

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I’ll admit that I am a lot less freaked out by chocolate eating episodes than I used to be after Simba ate an unknown amount of pure cocoa powder and had an unpleasant 24 hours but was fine. Followed by eating chocolate baking squares and various other chocolate items (not all at once). Chocolate can be dangerous for dogs, and you do have to be careful that they don’t get it, but our Labs are so big that they’d have to eat quite a lot of regular-type chocolate for it to harm them.
 
MellowYellow

MellowYellow

Blimey!! Glad Tuppence is ok!!! I have to be very careful in my house because I don't really like milk chocolate and consequently we only have 85% or higher cocoa content chocolate, which I think might indeed be a bad thing for the dogs. Thankfully they are not thieves... but nonetheless I am very cautious.
 
Lisa

Lisa

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Yes the higher concentration of cocoa the worse it is…but as I said, Simba was alone in the house eating who-knows-how-much cocoa powder (pure ground cocoa - it was spread all over the house apparently, this happened on OH’s watch while I was away fir a couple days). At any rate, he had a dodgy 24 hours of being wired to the MAX but was ok in the end, thank goodness. :nod:
 
Lab_adore

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I'm very glad Maxx is a big clumsy oaf who really doesn't ninja very well. He used to counter surf but thankfully no longer (this does not include side-tables - these are pick 'n mix for him). He is, however, exceptionally good at snaffling items from the clean washing basket - a regular favourite is balled up pairs of socks - and shoes are still finders-keepers. He goes all-out for Steve's gardening gloves too
 
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