No one is immune, even our family. All it takes is an 85 degree house (the ac is out) with a tired child who fell asleep before eating their handful of tasty dark chocolate chips. Fast forward 7 hours and we were left with one desperately sick farm poodle.
We are very fortunate that B is so gifted at his profession. Even with his gifts, the severe reaction this sassy farm poodle had was the worst that he had seen in his 20 year career.
Severe vomiting, tremors, rapid heart rate, increase then decrease in body temperature and difficulty maintaining blood pressure were the symptoms varying in severity that over the course of yesterday left us questioning at times if he was going to recover. It appears that our tough farm poodle has made it through the worst. Though a bit of recovery is ahead for him, we are so happy that he and his big farm poodle ego are still with us. Moral of the story; Choc Tox (chocolate toxicity) is no joke, even very small amounts especially in a smaller dog can be devastating and each patient may react differently to the volume ingested. Please excuse me, I'm headed to hug a poodle.
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