Dog v Christmas Cake

[Hagnarok]

Last night our dog found, and ate, a lump of Christmas cake with brandy that I’d been saving for little treats.

I was lucky I realised within a couple of hours and she was taken to the emergency vets to be made sick, has been given fluids today and will be again tomorrow morning. She’s a lab collie x and never done anything like this before. Currently lying here listening to her gently snoring and me wide awake to make sure she’s ok. Hopefully another day of fluids and her repeat blood test next week will be better than today.

I knew that dogs shouldn’t eat anything with grapes, raisins or sultanas but didn’t realise how serious or quickly the damage could take hold. The brandy seems to have affected her liver but hopefully only temporarily. I also didn’t realise the little hippo would seek out and eat something that was wrapped in two layers of plastic. You could leave a steak on a plate in the room with her alone and she wouldn’t touch it. In unrelated news Insurance company records record profits.

Wanted to edit but it wouldn’t let me, muppet ate the cake on Wednesday night so we’re just over a day and a bit in. I haven’t had this little sleep in an unbroken run since the kids were little and she’s happily peeing outside after a 10 minute wander round the freezing garden. Good thing I love her so.

Hope she’s ok and good job you noticed. Two layers of plastic won’t cover the tempting aroma for a dog and the plastic is just something else to ingest. You needed a cake tin and a high shelf.
I know you must be worried and blaming yourself but the vet is monitoring.
Here’s hoping you get some sleep soon.

My Lab scarfed a mince pie, just before Christmas. Luckily it was still opening hours and he was made sick within forty minutes. Brandy derives from grapes so it would affect the poor chap.

I am sorry op, I know it’s stressful when they do things like that! Over the years, I have had it happen a few times. One of mine ate through an actual door to get to the chocolate orange that I had left in the lounge, and then promptly ate that, including the foil, too. I was only out 2 hours! She spent a day and night at the vet, but recovered fine.
Another actually smashed his head through a pane of glass in the greenhouse and ate about a kilo of unripe tomatoes 🤦‍♀️ He was also fine.
And my friends 3 dogs recently got in her kitchen cupboards when she was at work and ate a load of marzipan , raisins, and suet! Straight to the vet where she spent 4 hours in a room with all 3, whilst they vomited it all up. Vile and expensive, but they are all fine now!
Hopefully your boy will recover and I’d like to say, learn his lesson, but they never do!

That bit you say about dogs not supposed to eat grapes? Vineyard dogs aren’t interested in all that. Jacks, kelpies, labs, Goldie’s, - I have seen them all like a grape or two.

Dogs will eat anything, doesn't mean it's not harmful to them. Grapes and raisins are toxic and at very low levels.

It really hasn’t taken much to make my 26kg lab/collie cross quite ill, and that’s with the vet saying she vomited up a fair chunk of the cake. She’s had two days of fluids at our regular vet and charcoal. Although eating and drinking she’s listless and doesn’t have as much energy as she normally does. The brandy hasn’t helped though and that’s affected her liver although hopefully that should resolve in a few days. From what the vet told us grapes, raisins and sultanas can affect dogs kidneys really quickly so it’s advised if they do get hold of them to seek treatment. I genuinely think if I hadn’t she’d have been seriously ill or died. I couldn’t have taken that risk.

Ahhh hopefully she'll feel better soon.

Well two weeks almost on and she’s back to full health, all her blood tests came back normal and she’s back to being the baby brat of the family. We couldn’t be happier 🥰 definitely no more Christmas cake unless it’s under lock and key!

My dog ate a mince pie. Right as rain without going to the vets. It's like Russian roulette, most dogs are OK.

I'm so glad for you and your dog. They do worry us sometimes!

Same - my much missed senior dog loved a mince pie at Christmas and lived to the ripe old age of 16. Dogs will all react differently and that's the danger.

My dog managed to scoff a huge rich fruit birthday cake and apart from an attack of the runs the day after was fine. Most dogs would be fine after eating dried fruit (but as pp said, it’s Russian roulette)