Cookiebaker
11-21-2006, 05:45 PM
Just before, I heard a crash in the kitchen, and came running. Malone had jumped up, and gobbled down half of a chocolate chip pound cake before I got there. :( It had been covered and pushed way back on the counter, I have no idea how he could have gotten it.
Sometimes I feel so sad about him. It's like we work with him so much, and he starts to earn our trust. But then, its like he seems to know that we trust him more, give him a little more freedom, and he turns into a nawtee puppy again. :( I feel like he behaves so well when I constantly supervise him. But the moment my back is turned he gets into something awful.
So, I called the vet, and I was so irritated because the lady on the phone LAUGHED at me. It wasn't funny. First off, I was scared because I know that chocolate can be lethal. Secondly, I was upset because I feel like this is a huge setback in our training with him. Maybe I will see the humor tomorrow or next week or something. But right now, I feel so sick inside. How on earth am I going to handle him after the baby is born??
Anyway, they told me not to worry about it. In the entire cake, there was only 12 oz. of chocolate total, and he got probably a little less than half of the cake. So they told me to watch him closely, but he should be fine, that he didn't get anything close to what would be lethal for him.
For the trainers out there, please give me some advise in how to train him so that I can trust him when I don't watch him 100% of the time. And please be gentle with this bad mommy. I'm so torn up about this whole thing right now, and feel like I should have been watching him closer. :(
Sometimes I feel so sad about him. It's like we work with him so much, and he starts to earn our trust. But then, its like he seems to know that we trust him more, give him a little more freedom, and he turns into a nawtee puppy again. :( I feel like he behaves so well when I constantly supervise him. But the moment my back is turned he gets into something awful.
So, I called the vet, and I was so irritated because the lady on the phone LAUGHED at me. It wasn't funny. First off, I was scared because I know that chocolate can be lethal. Secondly, I was upset because I feel like this is a huge setback in our training with him. Maybe I will see the humor tomorrow or next week or something. But right now, I feel so sick inside. How on earth am I going to handle him after the baby is born??
Anyway, they told me not to worry about it. In the entire cake, there was only 12 oz. of chocolate total, and he got probably a little less than half of the cake. So they told me to watch him closely, but he should be fine, that he didn't get anything close to what would be lethal for him.
For the trainers out there, please give me some advise in how to train him so that I can trust him when I don't watch him 100% of the time. And please be gentle with this bad mommy. I'm so torn up about this whole thing right now, and feel like I should have been watching him closer. :(