Cheryl wrote:
>
> "dsi1" > wrote in message ...
>> James Silverton wrote:
>>> Hello All!
>>>
>>> When I was growing up I was not told that chocolate was bad for dogs.
>>> Not that my Border collie got much but I swear he could hear someone
>>> unwrapping a chocolate bar from a quarter mile. We horrible kids
>>> would tease him by crumpling a piece of aluminum foil. Anyway, look
>>> at this:
>>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8232569.stm
>>
>> I heard this too when I was growing up. Now I find that this is not
>> true and it's only some dogs that will kick the bucket from kidney
>> failure when given chocolate. The problem is that nobody wants to say
>> which dogs can and cannot tolerate chocolate. That's the breaks.
>
> My brother's miniature poodle nearly died from eating chocolate candy
> bars, but I'm not sure exactly how many he ate. Not sure of the name of
> them, either.
>

I had a miniature Poodle who ate an entire package of Hershey's kisses,
foil included. He didn't even fart.

I think some dogs are affected more than others.

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Janet Wilder
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