dsi1 wrote:

> 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.

It's not the kidneys that are affected. It's the nervous system,
cardiovascular system and peripheral nerves. And it's not a question of
which dog (as if some are invulnerable), it's how much chocolate and at
what concentration.