Expensive bar of chocolate!!!!

pinkcloudnine

Hi, though I'd tell you about my darling black lab.
She managed to get hold of a 100g bar of Lindt 85% cocoa choc & eat almost all of it including the wrapper!!
My fault as it was left in the lounge in a bag.
Needless to say, we phoned the vet.It was Easter Sunday. He advised to bring her in for injection to make her sick.By the time we got her to the vet, she was already showing signs of tremor in her legs & face. Having been sick for about 20 mins, she was given liquid charchol to mop up any choc left in her stomach.
She looked so sorrowful when they had finished with her, I could have cried.
The emetic given made her very sleepy for the rest of the eve, she didn't even ask for her dinner.
The visit to the vet & treatment cost almost £128!!!!!!
At least we can claim some back on insurance, but our xs is £60, good old Mr T put it up without telling us[ we haven't claimed before]
By the next morning she was full of beans again, as if nothing had ever happened!!

snipzychick

Wow £60 for a bar of lindt chocolate IS very expensive

I'm glad to hear she's back on top form now though:rolleyes: dogs are great like that they don't tend to feel sorry for themselves.

ka7e

My brother's dog (another Lab of course!) has been through it twice. First she found a wrapped box of chocs under the Christmas tree and scoffed the lot. A few years later she stole the Christmas cake off the kitchen worktop. The vet had to treat her because of the quantity of dried fruit she had consumed.

My dog once gorged herself on dry dog food to the extent that she couldn't stand up - we let nature take it's course. 17 poos and 24 hours later, she was fine. Obviously she is a Lab, too.

snipzychick

ka7e wrote: »

My brother's dog (another Lab of course!) has been through it twice. First she found a wrapped box of chocs under the Christmas tree and scoffed the lot. A few years later she stole the Christmas cake off the kitchen worktop. The vet had to treat her because of the quantity of dried fruit she had consumed.

My dog once gorged herself on dry dog food to the extent that she couldn't stand up - we let nature take it's course. 17 poos and 24 hours later, she was fine. Obviously she is a Lab, too.

Of course a Lab They are like hoovers when it comes to something edible:rotfl:

MrsTinks

My mate who's a vet found herself taking her dog back to work TWICE in one day... first thing in the morning they got up to find he'd broken into a cupboard in the kitchen and scoffed chocolate... so she hoofed him to work and treated him... dropped him back home with her OH at lunch. He'd been out in the mean time and bought some replacement chocs as a surprise for her and hidden them... later that afternoon the dog found the second lot of chocolate and she had to drive home to fetch him and then back again... she was a little embarressed to say the least lol

frugallass

our westie once stole and munched his way through a bar of green and blacks, he had no side effect whatsoever but I was terrified that he was going to die !!

suki1964

Cockers are also walking dustbins and Christmas Eve about 7 years back my last cocker got through a box of roses and a box of quality street - wrappers included - whilst we had popped out for the last minute bits. For three days after he had multi coloured poo - some came out the way they went in And the trip the the vet was extremely costly back then as well - and no insurance

Penny_Watcher

Been there, done that ....... twice

Both times with chocolate left under the Christmas tree by OH. Now once could be considered a simple mistake, but twice First time we got the most almighty b*****king from the vet (quite right too).

Fat Bob the Ginger Pup was the main culprit - she's Golden Lab cross with no self control when it comes to food. We could tell it was mainly her because she produced sprarkly Xmas themed dog poohs as she had not bothered to unwrap the Ferrero Roche before she scoffed them .

Fortunately no permanent damage done, but all chocolate is now kept in either the fridge or a cake tin that even I have trouble getting into.

lifecatalyst

My dog, a labrador/retriever cross, swallowed a pair of mens sports socks WHOLE a couple of months ago! A visit to the vet & injection to make him sick was £43 (cheap compared to your bill pinkcloudnine :eek: )

A couple of weeks ago a similar thing happened, this time he swallowed part of a strong rubber toy that i had brought him that morning. Toy = 3.99, vet another nearly £40 (although the vet was closed & it was out of hours on a Saturday afternoon, she took pity as she rather liked my dog & charged me the weekday rate.....phew!)

It's hard work keeping everything out of reach....i spotted a bunch of elastic bands that had "passed through" a few days ago & have no idea where he found them!

Chesnut1

lifecatalyst wrote: »

It's hard work keeping everything out of reach....i spotted a bunch of elastic bands that had "passed through" a few days ago & have no idea where he found them!

That could be your postie? around here they tend to drop elastic bands as they go and if it is up your path/driveway then the dogs hoover them up.

tieg3

I have a 13yr old Lab x Rottie and had her checked at the vets a couple of weeks ago for diabetes as she had excessive drinking, peeing weight-loss and taking food out of the childrens hands (which she would never think of doing before) which thankfully came back clear . Anyway she has now gained weight just as quick as she lost it! It started off after she got in the bin and ate half the contents and then done it again a couple of days later, I came home to find 4 sh***y nappies ALL over the living room floor (i don't have a bin indoors now) What I think happened to her was that the nappies sucked all the fluid out of her body and she was craving to make up for it. When I cleaned the lawn off it was like it was covered in frog spawn :eek: :rotfl: