Thursday, October 9, 2008

Cookie Monster


Every dog parent is afraid of a chocolate raid by their dog, and it happened to me Monday night. While we were out to dinner, Cassius decided to treat himself to 4 large chocolate chip cookies.

I don't normally leave "hazardous" materials on the counters, but I was in a rush out the door and left a bag of cookies, brought all the way from Charleston, South Carolina by my friend Cornelia,on the counter.

Upon arriving home from dinner, I found a half eaten paper bag in the front lawn. I didn't realize what Cassius had gotten into for about 5 minutes (when I started fantasizing about chocolate chip cookies for dessert). Once it was clear the torn up bag was the cookie bag, I called the pet hospital to find out what to do. They were pretty confident that he hadn't eaten a dangerous amount of chocolate, but recommended we induce vomitting using hydrogen peroxide if we were worried, and if he'd consumed the cookies within the last hour/hour.5. He didn't seem to be ill at all and we were pretty sure the little piggy must have eaten the cookies more than 2 hours before we arrived home, so we decided not to give him the hydrogen peroxide.

Cassius is fine and never showed any signs of being anything but proud of himself for the successful cookie raid. I guess we were lucky! I will be much more careful in the future with chocolate in the house.

15 Comments:

wally said...

Hi! Thanks for visiting my pawlitical blog. We dogs are good at scaring you peoples, eh? I once ate a bottle of Rimadyl and I had to go to the ER.

wally t.

ps. Your photos are really beautiful!

Detwilers said...

I love the new photos!

Bella the Boxer said...

Hi Cassius....Glad to hear you are O.K. I don't think I could've resisted those chocolate-chip cookies, either.

xoxo - Bella

Unknown said...

I'm so glad Cassius was okay. He sure is a good looking little guy!

Liz said...

I'm totally ready for another blog post!!

Lisa said...

Hi just wanted to introduce myself! I'm a fellow boxer owner! You can view my Rocket's blog at http://therocketlog.blogspot.com

Great pictures!!

LisaH

Sam said...

Love your photog! I freak out with those kinds of things, too. Fortunately my dog hasn't given me any real scares yet, but my cat sneakily ate some dog treats I had put on the table while I was working with my dog. I was soo scared - and my cat NEVER does that! She was fine, though. :)

Unknown said...

Just love your Boxer :)
Glad he`s ok, they really know how to scare us...

Anonymous said...

Hi!

I love boxers!!

I have a boxer myself (second one, Vaso died, may he rest in peace)

His name is Basil, he's a big brown boxer, with a black nose (ofcourse) and a white chest. He's amazing!!

Here's a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c53epdRocQ8

Check out my blog (and follow if you liked it!) and read my story about my boxer.

-PJ

BoxerMom said...

I love your pictures! Believe me. Eating a few chocolate chip cookies is no big deal compared to what my Malcolm ate. If you want to know about it, visit my Boxer Blog. (http://house-of-hagg-boxer-dog-adventures.blogspot.com/) See the story from Sept. 30..."The world is my buffet table......" Your dog is really cute and you are great at taking pictures. I have 2 less than 2yr. olds and an 8 yr old. What a life. Boxers are like potato chips.....You can't have just one. :)

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