Very bad dog! 🐶

Years ago, our dog had been vomiting a lot, so off we went to the vet, and were given some medicine for her.

The next day, my daughter had left her bedroom door open and the dog got in and ate a family sized bar of Cadbury s chocolate.

I called the vet who said to give her a spoonful of (I think - it was a long time ago) washing soda crystals to make her sick.

The irony that we had spent a king's ransom for medicine to stop her being sick the previous day was not lost on us.

Our Springer Spaniel must have jumped up on our kitchen table, then up onto the high cupboard and pulled the frozen (thawing) chicken onto the floor and was sharing it with our cat when we got up in the morning.

He also ate a slab of butter and was very ill afterwards.

He didn’t learn though, got into all sorts of mischief and we still miss him 26 yrs later.

My dear little dog who just loves any food is too small to reach a worktop but I’ve left food on a coffee table and he won’t touch it bless him….he accepts the rules.
A larger dog we once had once pulled a marrow down from the worktop and ate half of it. However, biscuits he knew not to touch until we said ‘you can have it’. We used to have pine stairs and being late for an appointment one day, we left a bonio on the stairs and rushed out without saying the magic words. When we got back the bonio was still there with dribble marks round it. Poor dog, must have been so tempting for him.

We had a dog who brought in a freshly roasted leg of lamb, I still have no idea where she got it from - our closest neighbours were 500 yards away!
She was a rescue and would nick anything vaguely edible, she drank fat from the chip pan, a block of butter ( both were on the worktop, leaping up there was easy for her!), raw potatoes, the chocolate decorations from the Christmas tree (poo’d foil for days afterwards).
Everything had to be kept out of her reach and the kitchen door kept shut.
She never had any side effects!

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DD keeps chocolate in the fridge. One of her dogs managed to open the fridge and eat some chocolate - luckily she was ok too.

It is poisonous for dogs but it depends on size of dog and how much they scoff.

You're very organised, Witzend. Christmas gifts bought and wrapped!

My friends lab ate the weighed out ingredients for a large Christmas cake when she went to answer the door. He was smelly but otherwise, a fat happy lab

Talking of greedy labs, after a friend’s black lab had had his dinner, he was given a big dish of leftovers from us humans’ fish and chips. Oddly he didn’t quite seem to be devouring them in a flash as he usually would - more a case of just eating them to be polite.

Friend later realised that he’d already had 2 full doggy dinners - her MiL, who was staying at the time, had also fed him!

Fifty years ago my dalmatien was taught that the only food she was allowed to eat was from her bowl, after permission was given to eat, even for the rare treats. It honestly did work whether food was left by toddler DD on the floor or DD walking around with a finger biscuit. However, the week I was away and my DM came to pet sit all was ruined. From then on, she food watched and couldn’t be trusted.

* clamped firmly in HER mouth

Years ago (before we knew chocolate was dangerous for dogs) we had a lab and I used to give him the chocolate orange and strawberry creams from my boxes of chocolates as I really don't like them! He was fine. He was very greedy (aren't all labs!?) and one day I came home from work to find he had eaten a full half pound of butter that I had forgotten to put in the fridge- he was as sick as the proverbial dog- the kitchen floor was covered in yellow foam!! Our current lab when she was a puppy, managed to get on the kitchen table and very proudly walked in to our dining room (we had our son and DIL round for a meal) and showed us her prize- a full roast chicken clamped very firmly in his mouth! Luckily I had cooked 2 (it's not only our lab that's greedy in our house!) so we didn't go without our dinner.

Labs are known for this type of thing ... my daughter's lab is lovely, although a rascal at times. When he has things when I look after him ... I get the blame for not putting things out of his reach ... although does the same at home ... once when I was there dog sitting. I decided to take some chicken pieces out of the freezer, thought if I cooked about 2 or 3 would save cooking any the next day ... little rascal stole the plastic bag & yes swallowed it ... Sunday aswell !!! Phoned up vet, as soon as I mentioned his name surprise, surprise yes he knew him ! Phoned up friends in case I had to take him to the vets ... cut a long story shorter came out the other end the next day ... may I add ... if you look after anyone else's animals get the owner to write a letter you have authority to have veterinary care, also contact the vets to let them know ... if not as not your animal won't treat them ...

My son's labradoodle was given a hot cross bun by a visiting child and spent the rest of Easter at the vets on a drip.

We used chocolate buttons to 'train' our little Cairn.

He learned very quickly.
This was before we knew chocolate was dangerous to dogs, and he never was ill.

A bug dog eating milk type choc probably ok.
Before we all knew chocolate is lethal my spaniel always seemed to find the hidden Easter eggs and Christmas chocolate. She lived happily to 15.
These days we all know much more so life is less entertaining, and more scary 🐕😏🐶😵‍💫

Many years ago when DH and I both worked, we had two house dogs - springer spaniels. I’d done our Christmas food shopping at M&S and took it home in my lunch hour, letting the dogs out in the garden as usual. To this day I still don’t know how they managed to get the bags down, but when I returned at 5 PM, all that was left was a bottle of sherry, rolling around the kitchen floor! Both dogs weren’t ill, but their poo came out ready wrapped in green M&Ms carrier bags!

DH had a particular liking for Thornton’s rum truffles, which were always in short supply around Christmas time. His sister hadn’t managed to get any, so instead had lashed out on some hand made rum truffles that came in around 80p each. She wasn’t best pleased to find out when we’d gone into the dining room to eat, DD2’s little Shih Tzu had doubled back into the family room and scoffed the lot. Surprisingly he wasn’t ill either.

One thing I noticed, he didn’t looked remotely abashed! Our two former dogs would def. know if they’d done something they shouldn’t, would hide under e.g. a table and look sheepish.

This old boy - and I did utter some very cross words - evidently didn’t give a toss!

When I was small we had two "animals", on our street called Bruce . One was a little boy the other a dog.
The dog was notorious for going into people's houses and eating the Sunday roast while it was resting.
One Sunday a lady ran out of her house shouting "Bruce has eaten my meat." Guess who got the smack and who was found later with a bone.
The whole street was in an uproar and crying with laughter.

Yes, I think raisins, like grapes, are very dodgy for dogs, more so than chocolate.

Vets are kept very busy over Christmas period with dogs eating chocolates mince pies and/or Christmas cakes. Chocolate liqueurs with alcohol inside is even more dangerous. A vet I know was giving a talk about dog first aid situations and she volunteered the info that her own terriers had devoured two large Christmas cakes and chocolate! She spent Christmas morning at her surgery making her dogs sick then placing them on drips. Luckily they survived.

I'm glad he is OK. The larger, the dog the less the problem with eating chocolate apparently.
I came home from school one Christmas with all my loot - ferrero rochers, Lindors, After Eights, Quality Street etc - and accidentally left the door to the study open. In the morning I found our golden retriever had eaten every single box of chocolate. Not even sick!

TBH back in the day before we knew about such things we used to give our dogs anything and everything. The only dog I know of who actually died ate a whole box of chocolates that were under the tree. My current dog is probably gluten intolerant so she has nothing except a certain dog food and whatever she can snaffle from under the table!

If it makes you feel any better, I’m in the same boat, as my spaniel is the greediest dog ever, and he snaffled a Go Ahed biscuit with raisins in off the coffee table yesterday evening while my back was turned for 10 seconds. Down in one gulp. Raisins can be highly toxic to dogs and cause kidney failure so I was up in the night and first thing this morning to check him. He’s absolutely fine. They know how to stress us out!

Never had that with any of our Labs, but with our old ginger cat years ago, I had just been out to buy fish from the fish van when the phone rang. I left the fish on the worktop while I answered the phone - then went back into the kitchen to find the cat nibbling at the fish. I shooed him off the worktop, trimmed the fish with scissors and breadcrumbed it as intended - and hubby was none the wiser!

Labs are notoriously greedy. They’ll eat owt.
My little dog once ate the entire contents of a small tub of Vaseline.
She also has a penchant for lip balms.
Crunchy on the outside, smooth and soft in the middle