Our Dog (s) Just ate an entire bag of Peanut Butter M & Ms!

[Bearvet]

While I was grocery shopping, the dogs managed to get ahold of a bag of Peanut Butter M & Ms. I suspect the border collie got the bag open and the pug took over from there! The pug has ballooned up like a football and looks miserable. Not to mention the mess all over the kitchen floor. Not what I needed today!

I guess they'll need to go in their kennels when we leave the house since there are holiday goodies around.

I called DH (who is a vet) and he said to take away the water for the next few hours. He also said that there's not enough chocolate (and it's not the right kind of chocolate anyway) to pose a threat. Just an uncomfortable night for the pug. Of course, the M & Ms were for his stocking, so he's extra upset about this - they're his favorite candy!

 

[SwedishMeatball]

I hope the doggies feel better soon. Get your DH one of these for his stocking.

 

[Diznotyzed]

At least it was a fairly inexpensive candy! Our dog ate $25 worth of hand made truffles that a house guest unknowingly left accessible on Thanksgiving!

I'm glad your dog will only be uncomfortable, and otherwise ok. Ours was just fine, too.

 

[DrCavin]

Our wheaten terrier ate an unknown amount of chocalate last Christmas, he wasn't feeling normal for a couple days. We thought, good that will teach him to eat chocolate - nope about 3 days later he grabs a hershey bar & slugs it down... silly dog....

 

[Buckalew11]

2 years ago my little ****z-poo (or whatver she is--10 lbs of lovely!) opened every door on DD's advent calendar with chocolates inside! (well, all buit 1 or 2 days that were already gone)! She opened every single door and got the piece of candy! Did not tear the box up at all. She did the same with DD's Easter bunny filled with peanut butter one year!

She's a chocoholic! My BIL is a vet and says ususally it may give them the runs but otherwise they are ok.

 

[nataliela]

This thread just reminded me I have a reese's cup in my purse!!!! !!!!


My dog ate a really good chocolate bar from my purse once....He was fine.

While growing up, my dad would give our lab and toy poodle reese's cups every night...the poodle lived to be 14 and the lab 12

 

[OK!]

My parents' yellow Lab once ate 2 pounds of chocolate-covered macadamia nuts. She never got sick, but was so upset about getting in trouble that for years afterward, she'd go into a head-down, tail-wagging frenzy every time someone said the words "macadamia nuts."

Now, the time she ate several pounds of frozen deer entrails that she found in the woods, on the other hand...

 

[Sleepy]

He also said that there's not enough chocolate (and it's not the right kind of chocolate anyway) to pose a threat.

Can you please explain this? I had the understanding that any kind of chocolate was bad for a dog.

 

[solferino]

oh no! Glad to hear your DH is a vet. Having a pug myself I bet yours never even tasted them. Those dogs are like a dyson when it comes to food.

 

[lisajl]

Can you please explain this? I had the understanding that any kind of chocolate was bad for a dog.

Baking chocolate is the worst.
Most of our milk chocolate does not have much chocolate in it.

 

[java]

My Dh was at the emergency vet a few weeks ago and the place was packed with animal injesting emergencies. One Lab had eaten an entire bag of York Peppermint Patties- bag and Wrappers! He was fine. Another had eaten a single sock and a tee shirt! which he threw up in the waiting room and was then fine.

Anything within reach goes into my Labs mouth.

 

[WDWBarb]

We rushed to the vet just last week when my DH IM'ed me at work and said, "By the way, I noticed after you had left that the dogs ate an entire bag of Rasinettes."

Flash to me, at work, speed-dialing my vet and checking snopes.com with the hopes that the "raisins are dangerous to dogs" email that had been going around was a total fabrication...

Turns out, it was not. That was another expensive vet visit

My boss never knew I could run so fast!

But my furbabies are A-OK

 

[ShannonRT]

There was an article in the paper here written by a vet a few days ago. She said December 26th is one of their busiest days of the year due to pets getting ahold of chocolate and other things they're not supposed to eat. So everybody be careful!

 

[Passions71203]

Our wheaten terrier ate an unknown amount of chocalate last Christmas, he wasn't feeling normal for a couple days. We thought, good that will teach him to eat chocolate - nope about 3 days later he grabs a hershey bar & slugs it down... silly dog....

 

[Straitlover]

While I was grocery shopping, the dogs managed to get ahold of a bag of Peanut Butter M & Ms.

At least they have good taste! I bow to the PB M&Ms!

Hope the doggies are OK!

 

[Taylor]

My dog just ate our cat again. I get tired of buying new cats every week.

 

[terri01p]

Sunday night I sent my dd to the grocery store to get my daugther some asprin because she had a fever and he put it on the table my doggie got the bag and ate the bag, asprin box the container and three of the pills before we found out what was going on.

The vet said keep an eye on him for the night and call if he changes in anyway...I stayed up all night watching that dumb-dumb and beleive it or not he was fine.

 

[solferino]

My dog just ate our cat again. I get tired of buying new cats every week.

So that's what all that training was for.

 

[Taylor]

So that's what all that training was for.

No, Brutus knew that cats were good eating before all the training.

 

[Bearvet]

lisajl has it correct - baking chocolate is the worst for dogs. No two dogs will react the same - it could range from mild seizures to coma. Milk chocolate will only cause (most) dogs to have an upset stomach.

It seems like the pug ate the most candy or at least is affected the most. Now that the vomitting has calmed down, the other end is starting up. She's sitting looking longingly at the water bowl - I keep telling her it's her own fault! She eats snow as soon as she goes outside. She'll be in her kennel for the night.

Last Christmas the cats knocked a platter of sugar cookies off the table and she pigged out. It took her a few days to recover from that episode. We work very hard to keep her weight down, so she'll be dieting for the next few weeks. Her sister (owned by friends) weighs 10 pounds more than she does. DH is adamant about keeping her weight at a healthy level. Pugs will eat everything!!