The Dog Did It

[PalJoey]

The Dog Did It#1

Posted: 1/9/08 at 3:19pm

I often think Miss Holly harbors similar homicidal fantasies, especially when I don't give her chocolate.

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HOUSTON (Reuters) - A Houston-area man was killed in a hunting
accident after his dog stepped on a loaded shotgun in the back of a pick-up truck, triggering a blast that pierced the vehicle and the hunter's leg, a local sheriff said.

Perry Price, a 46-year-old math teacher, shot a goose on Saturday then put his gun in the back of the truck where the dog was waiting to retrieve the bird.

"I've been in law enforcement 20 years and this is probably the
strangest one I've had," said Chambers County Sheriff Joe LaRive.

Investigators found paw prints and mud from the dog, a chocolate
Labrador retriever named Arthur, on the shotgun, LaRive said.

Price was taken to a local hospital, but died from a loss of blood after doctors were unable to revive him.

[mominator]

re: The Dog Did It#2

Posted: 1/9/08 at 3:34pm

PJ, should I send a large box of chocolates?

"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen." Conan O'Brien

[Unknown User]

re: The Dog Did It#2

Posted: 1/9/08 at 3:36pm

My dog just glares when I eat chocolate...it makes it a little bit easier to give him up for further training at the end of the year and a half...

[Calvin]

re: The Dog Did It#3

Posted: 1/9/08 at 3:41pm

Didn't this happen in that episode of "Murder She Wrote" with Lynn Redgrave?

Only it turned out that it wasn't the dog but Dean Jones who was the killer?

Oops...SPOILER ALERT!

[PalJoey]

re: The Dog Did It#4

Posted: 1/9/08 at 3:46pm

That show was gayer than the Love Boat.

[TheatreDiva90016]

re: The Dog Did It#5

Posted: 1/9/08 at 4:26pm

Chocolate will kill your dog.

Don't let them eat it.


And that's why they give you that look.

"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>> “I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>> -whatever2

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

re: The Dog Did It#6

Posted: 1/9/08 at 4:48pm

Has anyone ever actually known of a dog that died from eating chocolate? I never even heard that it could kill them until I was in my teens.




Chocolate and Dog Poisoning Updated On: 1/9/08 at 04:48 PM

[TheatreDiva90016]

re: The Dog Did It#7

Posted: 1/9/08 at 4:48pm

Linky no worky


*Thanks*


And nope, don't know anyone whose dog had died, but I've known since I was a kid not to feed a dog chocolate.

"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>> “I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>> -whatever2

Updated On: 1/9/08 at 04:48 PM

[Calvin]

re: The Dog Did It#8

Posted: 1/9/08 at 4:51pm

From what I remember, it can kill them, but they have to eat a whole lot of it to do so. If they accidentally eat a piece of your Snickers bar, they'll be fine. If they tear into a bag of baking chocolate you have in the pantry, then there's trouble.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

re: The Dog Did It#9

Posted: 1/9/08 at 4:52pm

The link should work now. It actually lists the what amounts of various kinds of chocolate would be lethal to a dog.

[mominator]

re: The Dog Did It#10

Posted: 1/9/08 at 5:56pm

Our dog must have been a weird one. As a puppy she would get into the pantry and eat the baking chocolate. Never got sick... crazy dog.... I miss her

"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen." Conan O'Brien

[KelRel]

re: The Dog Did It#11

Posted: 1/9/08 at 7:47pm

My aunt's dog died from eating chocolate, but then again all she ever did was feed him oreos, chocolate cake and cookies. There was a little dog food here and there, but mainly it was chocolate junk.

"All the while making faces like a baby platypus who forget to take some Beano before eating a chimichanga." FindingNamo in reference to Jessica Simpson's singing.

[Unknown User]

re: The Dog Did It#12

Posted: 1/9/08 at 8:17pm

Our dog, when she was a puppy, at a whole pan of double fudge peanut butter brownies that she stole off of the counter.

She was perfectly fine.


Weirdo.

[Liverpool]

re: The Dog Did It#13

Posted: 1/9/08 at 8:27pm

A friend of ours had a dog that ate a pound of chocolate and survived. Then again she also ate a ****load of insect poison and survived and had a stroke and survived.

[iHeartMyGeek]

re: The Dog Did It#14

Posted: 1/9/08 at 8:40pm

My aunt's dog once ate an entire chocolate cake off of her counter and didn't even get sick. I've never heard of dogs getting sick or dying from eating chocolate, but I wouldn't take the chance.

"I can't figure out what kind of life this is, comedy or tragedy, I just know it's showbiz. And what if I don't agree with the lines I have to read? They don't pay me enough, the way I see it."

[Rose_MacShane]

re: The Dog Did It#15

Posted: 1/9/08 at 11:10pm

My dad told me about a dog he had growing up. One time, the family went out somewhere and accidentally left a box of chocolates out. They got home and found a trail of half-eaten chocolates leading to an ill dog. He was okay, but quite sick.

I still think it's funny that he only ate one half of each one...

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[justagirl2]

re: The Dog Did It#16

Posted: 1/9/08 at 11:12pm

Yeah, my dogs find ways to get into chocolate fudge nearly every year, and they've never been so much as ill from it. The most lethal were the glass Christmas ornaments...disastrous!

[dramaparoxysm23]

re: The Dog Did It#17

Posted: 1/10/08 at 1:40am

I give my dogs chocolate...just not a lot and not often.

When my oldest dog was younger she ate two plastic containers of NesQuick and half a container of Ovaltine in the pantry and never even got sick. Of course, being a Great Dane/Lab over 100 pounds, she's less likely to die from chocolate poisoning than one of those cat-sized dogs.

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[son_of_a_gunn_25]

re: The Dog Did It#18

Posted: 1/10/08 at 9:30am

My parents bought two of those 5 pound chocolate bars this christmas and the dog got into it. She is a good 50 or 60 pounds, and ate about 3/4 of one of them. She was sick for the next two days, but she is fine.

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