Dog ate the bloody Christingle

[Slughorn]

DD brought home a Christingle, proud as anything. Left it on the coffee table. Greyhound promptly ate it, eight raisins and a cocktail stick. Currently at the vets with DH being induced to vomit.

Just posting to raise awareness really, for those with primary age DC. Let them eat the raisins on the walk home, or better still throw the bloody thing in the bin.

Any amount of raisins is apparently toxic to dogs. So be aware of mince pies and other dried fruit stuff as well.

The cocktail stick too! Aren’t dogs idiots? Mine certainly is anyway and would have done exactly the same thing.

Was at at least in vet hours or are you paying extortionate out of hours fees?

Oh no, hopefully all the cocktail sticks come out as well.

Been there with one of our labs, ate a small box of raisins. Was expensive and she felt so sorry for herself. Never have raisins in the house since.

£235 which is not so bad considering. The cocktail stick and raisins are now back up. Poor DDog on his way home. We have to give him activated charcoal every 4hrs (so I guess waking up through the night).

So glad he’s okay.

But yes, couldn’t be a more stupid design in terms of causing maximum damage to dogs :(

The cocktail sticks would worry me, but not the raisins. My old Staffie was partial to mince pies at Christmas and reached 16 years old.

Oh bless, did he actually get really poorly? The only reason I say that is because the amount of times that my dog has got into chocolate when it shouldn’t of done and been perfectly fine didn’t need a vet at all.
Including one day somebody bought me some Christmas presents in a bag. I did not know that one was wrapped up. That was a whole box of Thorntons chocolates. Well I came back and the dog had ripped that box up that one present left the rest of the presents.
She ate the whole box and yet it wasn’t sick at all. It’s funny this dog she’s got an amazing constitution, but I’m glad that your dog is better

I'm not sure people should throw them away in case the dog eats them.

I'm sure I heard that some dogs could eat a bag of raisins or chocolate and be fine whereas another could eat a small amount and be very ill. I think the general idea is it's best to get them to the vet than wait to find out which type your dog is.

Although I've never had to test this theory as Ddog point blank refuses to eat anything sweet, I only wish I had his will power

What about the candle?!

😂🤣

I don't think inducing your DH to vomit is going to help....

The problem with raisins is that while some dogs are absolutely fine, others will go into kidney failure and die. I'm glad your dog didn't suffer any ill-effects but all owners should get vet care for raisins and grapes - just in case.

It's not like chocolate where you can calculate the danger based on the type of chocolate and the dogs' weight.

Chocolate is different because the toxicity is based on the type of chocolate and the dogs' size and weight, whereas with raisins some dogs will never get sick and others will go into kidney failure and die - except you won't know which category your dog falls into until they're either fine or dead.

Thanks for the warning, I’m sure a lot of pet owners are not aware of the dangers in food, particularly at Christmas.

OP hope you dog is feeling better today.

Poor dog, I hope he’s not feeling too bad!!

Mine ate a tennis themed chocolate selection box that came through the door - packaging and wrappers and ribbons included, I only went out for 20 minutes……. The vet said his vomit was very colourful!

I wasn’t advocating otherwise 🙂

Aw no! Hope Ddog is okay. Just wondering why your DH is being induced to vomit though 😉