On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:23:32 -0400, BAR wrote:

John H. wrote:
be careful of sugar free gum!

If you have a dog READ IT -- then forward to all you know who do have a dog
! Actually, I'm passing it on to ALL my contacts and hope they pass it on
to all of theirs whether they have a dog or not!

This is true:
http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/xylitol.asp

[ Big Snip ]

Our previous dog, a 110 lb German Shepard Dog, ate a 1 lb chocolate bar
and suffered no ill effects.

One of our current dogs, a 40 lb male beagle mutt, ate a 1 lb chocolate
bar and lay under the kitchen table for 24 hours not moving much.

Both of these idiot dogs ate or eat their own crap too.



We, not knowing any better, used to throw grapes to our Lab. She'd catch
them and chomp. Reading further in the critters area of snopes, I found
that grapes can be bad news also.

http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/raisins.asp

And here's more than you ever wanted to know about dogs and chocolate:

http://tinyurl.com/4594ed

I can attest to the fact that a Lab will eat a three pound cheese ball
accidentally left in the basement rec area. I can further attest that
cleaning up after a dog which has developed an overnight case of cheese
ball diarrhea is no fun whatsoever.
--
John H.