Owner calls canine-nine-nine as dog ODs on chocolate
Dog owners have been reminded to keep the chocolate away from their pets this Easter after vets in Southampton were forced to pump the stomach of a Patterdale terrier that had scoffed 20 cupcakes.
Owner Yvonne Taylor dialled canine-nine-nine (or canine-one-one for North American Zoogle News users) after finding one-year-old Polly sitting in her kitchen amid a pile of wrappers and crumbs after gorging on the chocolate cakes.
“I’d locked the kitchen door so Polly couldn’t get the cakes, not realising she was still in the room,” Mrs. Taylor said. “I bet she couldn’t believe her luck. I remember reading that cocoa could be poisonous to pets, and having used quite a lot in the cakes, I was concerned for her.”
She then took Polly to an animal hospital run by the People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals, where vets anaesthetised the dog and pumped its stomach. Polly has since made a full recovery.
“The vets were brilliant and went that extra mile to save Polly,” said Mrs. Taylor. “They gave her an injection to induce vomiting and then proceeded to wash out her stomach under a general anaesthetic.”
A spokesman for the PDSA told the BBC: “Easter wouldn’t be Easter without chocolate, but it is a time when pets are at increased risk from potentially fatal chocolate poisoning.
“Luckily, Polly pulled through and survived. The amount of chocolate she ate could have killed her had her owner not recognised the danger and contacted PDSA so swiftly.”
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