Right. So, I'm back from a week in NYC. At home in Greensboro, my dog Duncan has been busy eating all my things. Most were non-important; junk I left lying around or things simply not "elevated enough" to keep him out of it. Floppers was a combination of the two; a milk chocolate bunny bought for me an easter or so ago by Duncan's real mom, my lady fay. Fay and I went out last night, only to return to the carnage left behind after Floppers' demise.

My response first was, "Floppers was a butt face, anyway." But it quickly changed to, "How much chocolate does it take to kill a dog?" We've all heard not to feed chocolate to dogs, right? It kills them, right?

Yes, yes it does. Or rather chocolate is full of somethings called methylxanthines, that kill cats and dogs. The main slayer is called theobromine, which Hershey's has a specific link to. Others are caffeine and theophylline. From one site,"Dogs freely ingest toxic amounts of chocolate if it is left accessible. A potentially lethal dose in a 16 pound. dog is only one pound of milk chocolate. People stop eating chocolate before ingesting toxic levels." Tell that to my friend Brian, who once ate 48 Kit-Kats in 48 hours & had to get a shot of cortizone.

So yeah. Turns out Duncan hadn't eaten very much. Floppers was a meager 49 or so grams of Milk Chocolate. According to this table he was well under the limit for a 40 pound dog. He didn't have any side effects or anything. Just a foil-laced crap in the morning.

Anybody else have some good "Dog/Cat/Human eats way too much chocolate" stories?