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Serious warning to dog owners on garden product
Topic Started: May 26 2006, 12:13 AM (77 Views)
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This was in one of the MSN groups I visit

DOG OWNERS BEWARE!!!! PLEASE READ AND DISTRIBUTE TO ALL OTHER DOG OWNERS YOU KNOW NO MORE DOGS SHOULD BE LOST FOR THIS!

Verified by Snopes .com & BY GOOGLE

Over the weekend the doting owner of two young lab mixes purchased Cocoa Mulch from Target to use in their garden. They loved the way it smelled and it was advertised to keep cats away from their garden. Their dog Calypso, decided that the mulch smelled good enough to eat and devoured a large helping. She vomited a few times which was typical when she eats something new but wasn't acting lethargic in any way. The next day, Mom woke up and took Calypso out for her morning walk. Half way through the walk, she had a seizure and died instantly.

Although the mulch had NO warnings printed on the label, upon further investigation on the company's website, this product is HIGHLY toxic to dogs.

Cocoa Mulch is manufactured by Hershey's, and they claim that "It is true that studies have shown that 50% of the dogs that eat Cocoa Mulch can suffer physical harm to a variety of degrees (depending on each individual dog). However, 98% of all dogs won't eat it."

True information about the mulch can be found here - http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/cocoa.htm This site gives the following information:

Cocoa Mulch, which is sold by Home Depot, Foreman's Garden Supply and other Garden supply stores, contains a lethal ingredient called "Theobromine".

It is lethal to dogs and cats. It smells like chocolate and it really attracts dogs. They will ingest this stuff and die. Several deaths already occurred in the last 2-3 weeks. Just a word of caution, check what you are using in your gardens and be aware of what your gardeners are using in your gardens.

Theobromine is the ingredient that is used to make all chocolate, especially dark or baker's chocolate, which is toxic to dogs.

Cocoa bean shells contain potentially toxic quantities of theobromine, a xanthine compound similar in effects to caffeine and theophylline. A dog that ingested a lethal quantity of garden mulch made from cacao bean shells developed severe convulsions and died 17 hours later. Analysis of the stomach contents and the ingested cacao bean shells revealed the presence of lethal amounts of theobromine.

Please email the manufacturer at michellemessick@hersheys.com and request that accurate information about this product be posted on the packaging to avoid further tragedy.

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Thanks for that warning Ann.
I will pass the information on to any that I know who has pets.

In hope the manufacturer will take the responsibility of animals who have died from this or been made very ill. :angry: :angry:
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This has been reported in various world wide dog forums for several months now.

Not really surprising that some dogs will eat the stuff ~ Science Diet use peanut hulls in their dog food and Iams & Euk use various indigestible fillers. Most supermarket dog food is even worse.

The poor dogs don't know what real food made of meat, eggs, fish and bones is.
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Thanks for this, Ann. :) I pasted it on my own forum too. :)
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