Poisoning — United States
Xylitol, a sugar substitute also found in gummy vitamins and other products, is 100 times as harmful to dogs as milk chocolate, experts say.
A woman from Charlotte, North Carolina, had no idea that a sweetener in sugarless chewing gum could nearly kill her family’s dog. She came home to find that the labradoodle [a cross between a Labrador retriever and the standard, miniature or toy poodle] had knocked her son’s “Ice Breakers” gum off the counter and ingested about 20 pieces. The dog began
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