Like all diligent creative writing students I'm constantly listening for snippets of dialogue and unusual facts for my notebook.
This morning at work I heard the dramatic account of a near death experience in a six and a half stone Old English Sheepdog. The dog managed to find a container of drinking chocolate in some unattended shopping. After forcing off the lid it contrived to stick its nose through the protective layer of foil and snort most of the contents. The dog then went completely wild, running around yelping and trying to eat anything it could find. By the time it got to the vet, its respiratory rate was 120 breaths a minute and its eyeballs were almost bulging out of their sockets. The vet administered large quantities of diazepam and after the 24 hours the dog was back to normal. There was a large vet's bill.
The dog's owner was both wiser and poorer as a consequence. According to the vet the dog was fortunate to be alive.
The lesson is that chocolate is poisonous for dogs. It contains substances similar to caffeine that cause overexcitement, hyperventilation and death in large doses. If the container had contained cocoa powder instead of drinking chocolate the dog would have been dead.
It seems safer for dogs to snort cocaine rather than chocolate (although this is not recommended).
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Ohhh thecpoor dog lucky he was a big fella, that is probably how he survived.