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December 17, 2005
Parenting 101
Rule #1 - Don't leave bowl of chocolates on coffee table where dog (aka Roxy) can get to them, especially given the fact that chocolate can be toxic to dogs if eaten in large enough amounts.
What a fiasco! The chocolates in question had been sitting on the same table since the time we got Roxy and she hadn't given them a 2nd look, but for some reason last night while we were away, she went hog wild and ate the lot of them. What the heck? The only remants were chewed up wrappers. All in all about 10-15 mini Butterfinger, Nestle Crunch and Baby Ruth bars had been consumed.
We were instantly in a bit of a panic having heard stories about chocolate toxicity in dogs before. She looked fine but our internet research told us that given her size, anything more than about 20 oz of milk chocolate would probably be the end of her. You should have seen us frantically trying to figure out how much chocolate 1 mini Butterfinger bar has! Exactly what we wanted to do with our night... After calling the vet and doing some more computing, we determined that she probably didn't eat enough to cause harm and she wasn't exhibiting any of the symptoms of chocolate overdose. So we put her in the basement (in the event that she would get sick) and decided our best plan of action would be to check on her often and wait to see how she did.
Turns out she was fine (still is but I guess we have to wait a full 36 hours to be sure) but she absolutely detested being put in the basement again (after all last week when she was sick with something else) and barked, whined and scratched at the door all night. At one point O actually went down and laid with her on the cold concrete floor! (meanwhile I was off in lala land sleeping the night away...) She finally shut up around 5:30 am after O fed her dinner and took her for a walk. We were both exhausted but O much more so than me. We are pretty sure we are going to be awful parents and very tired awful parents at that... :)
Anyway, the good news is, Roxy is still alive and well. Can one be indicted on dog murder? (it would have been more like suicide though...) And the chocolates are so high now I can barely reach them myself. Whew. Disaster averted!
In all the disarray and lack of sleep, I didn't get make my wakeup call to hit the pool before spinning today. I actually could have made it as I was moved to a later spinning class because the one I had signed up for was cancelled. It's a long boring story but the moral is, I did a 30 minute spinning class (instead of the usual hour long ones) and then did the elliptical for 30 minutes. It might have been okay that I didn't swim because my arms and back were really sore when I woke up this morning anyway.
Summary for the week:
Sunday - 20 min bike/35 min elliptical, core and feet exercises
Monday - 45 min bike and weights
Tuesday - off
Wednesday - 45 min elliptical and 2x25 pushups, 2x100 crunchups
Thursday - 2200 yd swimming (5x100 yd hard, 10x50 yd kick hard), core and feet exercises
Friday - 2000 yd swimming (5 sets of 4x25 yd yard, 2x50 yd kick hard) and weights
Saturday - 30 min spinning/30 min elliptical, core and feet exercises
Posted by beth at December 17, 2005 4:51 PM
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I left for a movie once and came home and my dog had unwrapped a Christmas gift- a box of chocoloate-covered cherries (I hate them). She had unwrapped the wrapping papper, unwrapped the celophane and eaten every pice of the gooey mess! We called the vet too and they said to give her a piece of bread to help w/absorption and that dark chocolate was much more toxic than milk! She was fine, had an iron stomach.
Posted by: Dawn at December 17, 2005 7:35 PM