"dsi1" > wrote in message ...
> James Silverton wrote:
>> Hello All!
>>
>> When I was growing up I was not told that chocolate was bad for dogs. Not
>> that my Border collie got much but I swear he could hear someone
>> unwrapping a chocolate bar from a quarter mile. We horrible kids would
>> tease him by crumpling a piece of aluminum foil. Anyway, look at this:
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8232569.stm
>
> I heard this too when I was growing up. Now I find that this is not true
> and it's only some dogs that will kick the bucket from kidney failure when
> given chocolate. The problem is that nobody wants to say which dogs can
> and cannot tolerate chocolate. That's the breaks.

My brother's miniature poodle nearly died from eating chocolate candy bars,
but I'm not sure exactly how many he ate. Not sure of the name of them,
either.