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wings, which sounded like slow helicopter rotors.
Wop... Wop... Wop...Wop, Wop, Wop as he took off. How Much Chocolate
By the time he left he cleaned out the entire rodent
population. Now Peaches would never get a rat. So Does it Take to Poison a
. . .
Dog?
On Christmas morning, I sneaked Peaches present
into the garage for “wrapping”. Out of the pet store The list in the box below should be helpful. Maybe you
bag (cat section purchase) I pulled a life size fuzzy can clip it and post it on your refrigerator?
rat. It looked real! I tied 30 feet of monofilament
fishing line through the nose of the fake rat and
then tied the other end around a training dumbbell.
I sneaked out the garage and around to the yard, • White chocolate: 200 ounces
in bitter cold, and planted the rat in the trash can per pound of body weight. It takes 250
lying on it’s side in the snow. I piled loose leaves all pounds of white chocolate to cause signs of
around the rat and stretched the fishing line across poisoning in a 20-pound dog, 125 pounds
the yard. (The things we do for our dogs!) for a 10-pound dog.
On cue, Peaches was let into the yard and went right • Milk chocolate: 1 ounce per pound of
for the cans. Pantu was drifting away to the back
part of the yard when I pulled the fishing line and body weight. Approximately one pound of
the rat jumped out right in front of Peaches. She milk chocolate is poisonous to a 20-pound
froze—when the big moment came, she choked— dog; one¬-half pound for a 10-pound dog.
and in the split second it took her to realize this was The average chocolate bar contains 2 to
her big chance, Pantu flashed by like a linebacker 3 ounces of milk chocolate. It would take
heading for a quarterback, body slammed Peaches 2-3 candy bars to poison a 10 pound dog.
out of the way and nailed the fake rat. Peaches
looked devastated, Pantu looked thrilled, and Semi-sweet chocolate has a similar toxic
Patti and I looked at each other and wondered level.
what do you do when one child steals the other’s
most treasured Christmas present. Peaches seems • Sweet cocoa: 0.3 ounces per pound
depressed, but she still goes to the trash, maybe
hoping that one last Christmas rat might still be of body weight. One-third of a pound of
found. sweet cocoa is toxic to a 20-pound dog; 1/6
pound for a 10-pound dog.
“Copyright 2018 by Canis Major Publications. All rights
reserved. Used by permission.” • Baking chocolate: 0.1 ounce per pound
http://www.canismajor.com/dog/ body weight. Two one-ounce squares of
bakers’ chocolate is toxic to a 20-pound
dog; one ounce for a IO-pound dog
See the accompaning article “WHY
CHOCOLATE POISONS DOGS AND HOW TO
TREAT CHOCOLATE DOG POISONING” on
the next page.
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