On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 08:54:21 -0500, JustWait wrote:

On 12/28/2011 8:50 AM, Happy JH wrote:
...contains Xylitol. This stuff is bad news for dogs.

http://vetmedicine.about.com/od/toxi...ylitol_tox.htm

Last night I found an empty Orbit box on the floor. I had just opened it earlier and left it on the
table. The new pup had jumped on a chair and gotten the package. She then ate about twelve pieces,
paper and all.

This morning I picked her up from the emergency room where she'd been 'flushed'. That was a $550
lesson.

Live and learn. I, of course, realize that most here are way too bright to ever do such a thing.


You could also raise your dog as I do, no human food, ever. My dogs can
lay on the floor next to a turkey sandwich and never even realize it's
something to eat, much less touch it. Just sayin'. When you train a
puppy, remember anything you train him to do (like eat people food), he
will do when he get's older....


Ours never purposely gets people food. This little dog is a chewer. She got one of my hearing aids.
Chewed it into pieces, but didn't swallow any of it.