And I thought I'd never use high school algebra

Your dog can consume up to 250mg of theobromine per kg (of their body wieght) and survive.
Why do I know this? Because I came home and found our darling little mutt had actually dug to the bottom of a massive gift bag, pulled out a GIFT WRAPPED bar of Hershey's Dark Chocolate (My Grandma had meant for Rob) and strived to achieve the following result:


He ate the equivalent of THREE human-sized servings of chocolate. (Must take after me!)
I spent the next 30 minutes (after controlling my anger) on the phone with my vet, the center for poison control, the animal center for poison control, and finally on the internet. Everyone seemed to know that chocolate can kill a dog. It eats through their liver.(For future reference, dark chocolate and bitter cooking chocolate are a lot more toxic than milk chocolate.) But no one knew how much specifically. The animal center for poison control won't even speak with you until you pay them $55 over the phone with your credit card. But by that time I found enough information on the internet to help me out.
Then it was like high school math was back- with the added pressure of life or death.
A dog can consume up to 250mg of theobromine per kg and survive. Scout weighs 29 pounds.
If dark chocolate contains 450mg of theobromine per ounce, and Scout eats 90 grams of chocolate, will Scout survive?
(It's a reallllly good thing my friend Shari was here because I suck at math.)

The answer is yes. He's fine. A "little" hyper last night (he was literally sprinting through the house until around 3am) but seems to be okay today. Never a dull moment with the Townley family.

P.S. it's BEAUTIFUL outside today and a bunch of us are playing ultimate frisbee around 1pm. if you're in the area and you want to come, please consider yourself invited!