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    Why Dogs Can't Eat Chocolate: How Medicines Work and How You Can Take Them Safely
    Why Dogs Can't Eat Chocolate: How Medicines Work and How You Can Take Them Safely
    Why Dogs Can't Eat Chocolate: How Medicines Work and How You Can Take Them Safely
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    Why Dogs Can't Eat Chocolate: How Medicines Work and How You Can Take Them Safely

    By Louise Achey

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    A pharmacist explains the science behind prescription medications—with helpful hints for avoiding adverse reactions and side effects.
     
    If you are one of the millions who take at least one prescription drug regularly, how can you stay safe when their effects can be so unpredictable—and occasionally even dangerous? Just as chocolate has a very different effect on your dog than it does on you, prescription drugs don’t always work the same from person to person.
     
    In this book, a pharmacist and award-winning medical educator simplifies the complex and confusing information about pharmaceuticals, reveals the three “Ds” of taking medicine safely, and explains in a clear and entertaining way what happens in our bodies when we take a medicine or supplement—to help you make safer, smarter choices for your own health.
     
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateDec 1, 2013
    ISBN9781614489689
    Why Dogs Can't Eat Chocolate: How Medicines Work and How You Can Take Them Safely

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      Why Dogs Can't Eat Chocolate - Louise Achey

      PART I

      Why Dogs

      — Can’t Eat —

      Chocolate

      1

      Barney’s Story

      Debra grew up on a farm with dogs the size of golden retrievers and labs, but she’d always wanted a dog of her very own. When she got her first real job and moved out on her own, her father drove with her to Oregon to pick up her very own puppy, a Bassett Hound she named Barney.

      Barney was a sweetheart of a dog. From the time she brought him home as a puppy, he made all of Debra’s friends and family laugh just being around him. Bassett Hounds are born with their ears almost full-grown, which drag on the ground until they grow into them. Debra and Barney loved to drive up to her family’s cabin in the mountains and go on winter walks, his big floppy ears dragging along in the snow at her side as he looked up at her. So cute!

      Barney loved to chase the farm cats around, just for fun, and his favorite toy was an old half-chewed tennis ball he liked to chase after when anyone would throw it for him. Although he was just a little guy, Barney had a big Bassett Hound bay-bark.’ When Debra arrived home after work or an errand he would show her how glad he was by standing up and giving her a big happy AAARRRFFF, AAARRRFFF, AAARRRFFF, AAARRRFFF! which was music to her ears.

      It was late summer in 1974 when Debra headed up to the mountains to meet up with some friends from Seattle to go camping over the weekend. When she couldn’t locate them, she drove instead to her grandmother’s house in Harrah, Washington to spend the night with her.

      On the way she stopped at a local Woolworth’s store to pick up some snacks for the trip, including a bag of chocolate stars, her favorite. At 19 months old, Barney was small for a Bassett, weighing only 18 pounds. He loved to ride in the front passenger seat of Debra’s 1971 white Ford Pinto Runabout, where he could stand on his hind legs to look for cats and his favorite target, COWS. As they pulled out of her driveway, she smiled as he pressed his nose against the window, scanning for cats and COWS to bark at.

      Turning onto I-82 at Ellensburg, a movement at her right caught Debra’s attention. The sound of sniffing was followed by the sound of crinkling paper as Barney found the chocolate stars she’d stashed on the floor.

      He really seemed to enjoy the candy, and before she realized it he’d finished off the entire bag. As she came up on the freeway exit to her grandmother’s farm, she wondered, could eating all of that candy make Barney sick?

      Surely he would be fine, she reasoned. Her family’s farm dogs had eaten chocolate candy from time to time, without any ill effects. Barney acted just like himself when they arrived, chasing after the farm cats, his floppy ears flying.

      Because her grandmother wouldn’t allow dogs in the house, Debra settled Barney in the fenced back yard instead. But when she checked on him the next morning it was obvious that something was wrong. There was diarrhea all over the back yard, and when she called his name he acted listless. Poor Barney! He couldn’t settle enough to eat or sleep, and kept having explosive

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