Don't pet the dog

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But who was the dog warden?

Who let the dogs out anyway ? www.google.com/url?q=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DQkuu0Lwb5EM%26vidve%3D5727%26autoplay%3D1&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwiA_rbpgI-CAxXJSkEAHf_bBVUQyCl6BAgZEAM&usg=AOvVaw2FLvu0B3zIk0wOUCvVMqoU

Someone having a "ruff" day no doubt.

Grammaretto

When out walking on our local estate, a favourite with dog walkers, at least one dog will bound over to me and say hello . What am I supposed to do if not pet it briefly?
Often the owner will call it off, in a halfhearted way. I don't suppose an assistance dog would do that.

An exuberant dog rushed up and knocked my DGD over when she was 2.

She has always been a bit nervous of dogs since but is getting used to their own.

Dogged by misfortune perhaps?

But surely not this!
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Iam64

Callistemon21

Joseann

4 days on and this thread is now a dog's dinner!

Apologies to posters who don't like dogs eating at the table. (Not mine.)

One of our dogs loved spaghetti bolognese - I didnt know at the time that dogs shouldn't eat tomatoes.
He survived.

Callistemon - that’s a Very Interesting Point, that in the past we fed our dogs things they enjoyed and didn’t instantly die of. I suspect it’s because we didn’t know we were feeding our dogs killing food.
My first spaniel found the carefully hidden Christmas tree crocs and Easter eggs reliably ever year. Yes she ate them and lived happily to age 14. Now my dogs are off to the vet for the vomit inducing stuff if the Nick a chocolate biscuit from a grandchild.
My mum shared her grapes with her sheltie for years. Yes, he lived to 17, very happily. Now we’d have been shouting, no no mum he’ll die if he eats grapes

Please no one shout at me for being frivolous. Life is so much more serious these days.

Some years ago my westie was left in our bedroom (at a friend's house) whilst we went off to the bank. When we returned I found a chocolate wrapper on the floor, plus the foil sleeve. She had stolen it from the bottom of a shopping bag. Luckily I knew that chocolate was poisonous to dogs and so I phoned the vet immediately and was told to bring her in.

My DH was holding her and he could feel her heart getting faster and faster. At the vets she was immediately given a morphine shot, followed by a second one later on. We left her at the vets overnight. The next day she was fine but left me £130 out of pocket.

The chocolate bar that Flora ate was 80% cocoa solids. I suspect that when Callistemon had her her first spaniel the percentage of cocoa solids was much less, which may be why her dog survived eating all those eggs.

Scary Dinahmo!
I think my biggest panic was when our goldie fished a toad out of the pool filter and proceeded to carry it round in her mouth with its legs dangling out. Apparently toads emit a ghastly poison when they are threatened.

I think it was Iam64's spaniel which ate the chocolate eggs, Dinahmo, it was our (inherited) Yorkie which used to like spaghetti bolognese.

Our spaniel would eat anything he could find, but our baby got to his food once before he did and ate some. I'd be telling tales if I said DH was in charge at the time!

One of DD's dogs managed to open the fridge and stole chocolate from there; the vet said because she is a big dog, she would be ok from the amount she devoured.

The next day she was fine but left me £130 out of pocket
Thank goodness.

I've always known about dogs and chocolate but hadn't realise there's such a long list of foods which are poisonous to them

Dinahmo - you’re right of course. I was being a bit giddy - it’s the cocoa content. My spaniel ate milk chocolate not the dark chocolate . Mind you, she also ate the entire savoury side of the table mum set out for my sisters 18th birthday tea, ignored the sweets cakes and biscuits on the other side. Mum blamed me of course - her dogs didn’t thieve.