Hands up, whose dumbass dog...

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has managed to snaffle currants and/or chocolate this weekend? (And which dumbass owners let them find the opportunity!)🤚

On our way to the vet now. It'll be under half an hour between her wolfing the Hot Cross Bun and us all seeing it again. She'll be alright won't she?

Mine got an entire bag of caffeine gummies threw up half at the vets and they gave her charcoals to vomit the rest up!

they are opportunist wee monsters!

hope your dog is ok 💖

Ours has eaten both in the past with no ill effects - hope same goes for yours

Oh dear. My stupid spaniel once ate a bag of chocolate sprouts bought as a stocking filler for DS one Christmas. Including the net and foil wrappers. I didn’t even realise until his poo became rather ‘interesting’. No adverse side effects other than that.

I hope your DDog is okay and the vet bill not too astronomical.

Mine didn't just eat chocolate.
It was M & S chocolate.

Mine snaffled a neighbour's chocolate Father Christmas. She was very sorry for herself after having the medication to throw it all up at the vets and having to walk home afterwards.

I was very sorry for myself at having a £100 vet's bill!

Hope your pooch is okay.

Mine has eaten and passed several pairs of dds knickers.
Tinsel
Half a bag for life.
Luckily I get issued with latex gloves at work.
He outdid himself with half a punnet of grapes. DH actually fed them to him.
I took doggo to the vet. Lovely vet told me to observe him as he would have had to eat half a vineyard before action was needed

mine ate my birthday chocolate 18 months ago, what a worry,
she was fine, eventually

My parents had friends who were not the best dog owners - they let him chase cows and he was not trained in any way. One day, they left him locked in a car for hours with a box of After Eights. He ate the entire box, wrappers and all and was then extremely ill all night. Of course, they didn’t take him to the vet because they were idiots.

Our German Short haired pointer, used to go out in the vinyard & eat the grapes off the vines, when she wanted a snack…
didnt seem to cause any issues

Many years ago my dog was playing with his ball in the living room while I was cooking in the kitchen, nothing unusual in this.
He liked throwing his ball around and pouncing on it and gently bitting it ( I think he was half cat )

After about 10 minutes he came into the kitchen for a drink, he was panting quite a lot when I bent down to refill his water bowl .
The smell of onion neatly knocked me over , yep it wasn't a ball he was playing with but a onion and he'd eaten about half of it.
I phoned the vets they said just keep a eye on him but he is likely to be fine.
He was fine but I still made sure that I kept the cupboard door closed where the onions were kept !

Mine hasn't because we're wise to him now. He had never stolen anything foodwise or otherwise in his life until the last 12 ish months when he managed to help himself to some dark chocolate from the table in the dining room. No idea how he got up there, hes a 15 year old chihuahua! (So was definitely a vet trip for him)

My FIL used to leave a trail of raisins for his dog as a scent activity! Our DDog ate one raisin and we marched straight off to the vets….. I’d rather be safe than sorry, I’m sure your dog will be fine @SnugglyJumpersMakeItBetter

Same here with my mums dogs.
one was a GSP the other a Weimaraner.
used to be the highlight of their day to go sniffle the ripe grapes while my mum was crazily trying to create a lovely vine arch.
needless to say the vine idea went out the window, then they started on the figs!!
some dogs, luckily, have the constitution of a horse 😂

Oh yes thd figs, she would be on her hind legs harvesting them. Also, she LOVED Strawberries, same thing, auto pick her own !

My boy ate 3 mince pies at Christmas , when he finally did vomit it was clearly too late as just bile came up , he was absolutely fine

Every christmas and easter my goal is to not have to take my dog to vomit. Two Christmases ago was close, the christmas cake was (we thought) out of reach of my elderly dog who (we thought) couldn't climb stairs any more. Caught him just as he was making a leap mouth open towards it. Hope your dog is ok, I'm sure they will be.

The thing with grapes is they're extremely toxic to some dogs and will cause kidney problems even in small quantities. Others will have no ill effects but there's no way to know which of the group your dog might fall into. It's not like chocolate where you can look at cocoa content versus weight of dog to work out a toxic dose.

Thanks everyone. She seems ok so far!

We had a dog who used to harvest his own blackberries, straight off the bush.

That dog must have eaten at least one of everything, including a hiking sock (which had to be surgically removed). Chicken bones, chocolate, raisins. We had many emergency vet trips, but, truthfully, he seemed pretty impervious to all the dangerous things and lived to a very ripe old age, still snaffling contraband really up to his last day.

Hope your girl's ok!

Before the days of the internet when we all found out some dogs react badly to such foods, our dog ate a whole, iced rich fruit cake with nothing except an attack of the runs to show for it. Dogs belonging to friends would regularly steal chocolates from under the xmas tree and I never once heard of a dog suffering permanent ill effects. Now, everyone’s dog gets rushed to the vets and gets hit with a £300 bill for an injection if they eat a single currant.

The problem with grapes/raisins and the like is that there isnt a toxic dose. A tiny dog could eat loads and be fine, a large dog could eat a few and be affected. And grape toxicity causes kidney failure, not something that you know about until its too late, and not something you can really do anything about. Dogs with kidney failure generally don't do well (unlike cats can).

Chocolate is different, you can calculate a toxic dose based on cocoa content and weight of the dog. And theobromine toxicity is treatable if you're quick enough.

I've seen dogs die of both, and other toxicity. Id rather pay (and claim back on my insurance) and get treatment when warranted than run the risk personally.

This is bonkers but one of my colleagues has a rough as hell street dog rescue.

The put a sack out of jars of pickles that had smashed. The dog ate the pickles.

And the glass.

Miraculously was fine.

I don't think I'll ever hear of a dog topping that tbh!

My dog once ate a decomposing rat carcass.
Took him to a vet within the hour and they made him sick and he brought it back up whole 🤢

He was fine. Luckily my pet insurance paid out!

Her urine test has come back clear so she's fine - big phew! It's going to be an ongoing concern though, her stealing food. She whipped that hot cross bun right off my dad's plate when he was eating his breakfast! She tried to take my lunch right off me today as well! It was rather alarming as she bit me when I blocked her. It didn't break the skin or anything but it was an aggressive type bite rather than a silly type bite. She's only 7 months old but very feisty! Any advice on how I should handle this? We'll confine her to her playpen when we eat from now on but that's prevention rather than cure.

My Ddog snaffled a chocolate and cherry hot cross bun a few months back. Assume it wasn’t too his taste as he left the other 3 😅