Dogs, Chocolate and Charcoal

Dogs, Chocolate & Activated Charcoal Every year around the holidays there is a high demand for chocolate. We indulge in it, use it for baking and so forth, but although darker chocolates are being touted as health food for people, it is not healthy for dogs. Jill and her husband Jim, just stopped in at Charcoal House the other day to pick up stocking stuffers and she reminded us of how our activated charcoal saved the life of her Cairn Terror.  This little dog ate a huge dark chocolate bar that was 80% cacao. The darker the chocolate the more poisonous it is for dogs.  When Jill discovered what had happened to […]

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Our Dog and Charcoal – Malignant Melanoma

Our Dog and Charcoal. Greetings and a thank you for your website and products. About our dog: We wanted to briefly share a story with you re: our dog Zoe and charcoal. Zoe had been diagnosed with malignant melanoma near her jaw and it was growing rapidly–close to doubling in a week. Our wonderful vet ‘debulked’ the tumor but could not get it all and it was wrapped around the facial nerve.  Despite the surgery, it was growing and putting pressure on her throat creating a coarse bark. We thought it would be a short time before we would need to euthanize her. Charcoal to the rescue: We had a […]

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