For all the fur baby moms * Christmas warnings.

So we learned a few lessons this weekend on dogs & chocolate and I want to share. My 9lb wiener dog managed to get up on a table and get down a wooden advent house that weighed about 5lbs. She managed to get open several pull out drawers on it ( something that is not easy to do) and ate about 11 Dove milk chocolate promises.

Things I now know.
1> If your dog is going to eat chocolate, milk chocolate is the least deadly
2> A Dove promise is between .02 & .03 onces
3> Peroxide has an experation date

I called the poison control center for pets... which costs $50.00 ( another fun fact) and we ended up inducing vomiting with the peroxide.

She is doing fine thankfully, as she is our baby girl. Be careful this time of year with your pets and keep perioxide on hand and the phone # for poison control.

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Oh man. Glad she is OK! I

Oh man. Glad she is OK!

I actually write for a vet as one of my clients.

A few more holiday items / baking treats that are toxic to dogs:

1. Poinsettia berries
2. Rasins / Grapes
3. Dough
4. Avocado
5. Nuts, esp. Walnuts & Pecans (can cause seizures or other neurological symptoms)

grapes? really? grandpa

grapes? really? grandpa LOVES grapes and has never had any ill effects. is there a resource you can point me to?

Right - that's correct and

Right - that's correct and raisins are worse as the tannins (or whatever it is...they're not quite sure) become more concentrated. Dogs don't have the same ability to metabolize grapes as humans, so they build up in the kidney. It also depends on type of dog and type of grape.

I wouldn't worry too much if you've fed them to your dog before without any negative side effects.

Add onions/garlic/scallions

Add onions/garlic/scallions to this list. In general, human food is for humans and dog food is for dogs.

They had me give her 5 ML of

They had me give her 5 ML of straight perioxide. She started foaming like Old Yeller and throwing up as soon as we got outside. They said if I needed to I could give her 5ML.

where did you get active

where did you get active charcoal. I saw that when I was googling. Puggles will eat anything. My sister had one and man was she naughty.

It also usually causes

It also usually causes vomiting! Surprised it helped it stop in your dog. And vomited chocolate has the worst smell and is so hard to clean up.

Thankfully we made it outside

Thankfully we made it outside and stayed outside until she threw it all up. She was pretty disgusted by it and gave a large berth to that spot the rest of the day..lol.

I keep activated charcoal on

I keep activated charcoal on hand for detox. It really is miraculous and will soak up most poisons. It's often the first step if you take someone to the ER for poison. Induce vomiting, administer activated charcoal!

The wiener is all three of

The wiener is all three of our baby. BS sleeps with her every night, I can't imagine having her die from eating the advent house. It would have been a very bad thing.

I wish I could post her picture for you guys, she just got a new red christmas sweater. She loves to wear sweaters and riding in the car.

http://www.petmd.com/dog/emer

http://www.petmd.com/dog/emergency/digestive/e_dg_grape_raisin_toxicity

Here's a reliable source about dogs and grapes/raisins.

My 35 lb cocker spaniel ate

My 35 lb cocker spaniel ate an entire bag of M&Ms. I had no clue until I went to look for the package a few weeks later for Christmas baking and found shreds of the package. Guess I lucked out there.

My Australian Shepherd 2yr

My Australian Shepherd 2yr old pup enjoys rearranging the decorations. Especially the Christmas pillow and his brother pups Christmas Stocking. I did not know he could read, but apparently he does as he went for the same one twice already. The one with his brothers initial on it. Last night a fence was put around the tree just in case. Hopefully we can keep him away from the food!

Cats too - watch the greenery

Cats too - watch the greenery and tinsel.

My boy kitty will eat anything green, or try to. Yes, I do buy/grow him cat grass and provide catnip on a regular basis but he just loves greens.

Many things like real mistletoe is deadly for cats, as are poinsettias.
So is chard and spinach (this was a new one for me as he got into chard recently).

We got a new fake tree this year and the first thing he did? March up to it and start chewing on it. We allow no tinsel and no tinsel ribbon and minimal curly ribbon on gifts (girl kitty loves curly ribbon and has been known to drag gifts across the room trying to get the curly ribbon off).

It's always challenging!

our danger is the wiring. we

our danger is the wiring. we get real trees, and the first few days we let skwerl#1 have a heyday in it. but once the lights go on, we need to be very vigilent hard to keep him away. he's destroyed several strands of lights! with 3 skwerls now, they will have to be on lock-down once we put up our lights. but i look forward to seeing how all three behave in the tree!