On 12/28/2011 3:24 PM, Happy JH wrote:
On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 08:54:21 -0500, 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.

The worse is our friends with two bull mastifs, one at 190 lbs+. These
dogs will take food right from your hand while you are standing there or
reach right up on the counter and take whatever it can reach. They
thought it was cute when the dogs were little...