I hope Sammy will be okay, and good on you for having pet insurance!! And so sorry about AJ.

My dog got into a box of cheap milk chocolates once. The vet pretty much said that the amount of chocolate that's in there was so minimal that there wasn't much to worry, and she was right. He lived to a ripe old age of 14.

That said, my dog LOVED garbage. He would knock you over to get at a bun covered in green fuzz. Combined that with him having inflammatory bowel disease, it was to say the least, explosive.

He ate some unidentified fungus that I had picked off the ledge in my sunroom once. Knowning how deadly some mushrooms could be, the peroxide went in out came the mushrooms.

Towards the end, after years of cleaning up after his indiscretionary consumption of things off the ground, I learned to have a bottle of activated charcoal handy. It really helped. Anything suspicious, I had him eat a capsule or two and he never had an episode.


Grapes and raisins are also toxic to cats. Going off on a tangent, but one should never give pepto bismol to cats, it's quite toxic to them.