the dog and the chocolate

My brother and I have been staying in San Francisco with a friend of my dad's and his wife. I have met them before once but do not remember it. They have a nice house, no children and two dogs, which have become like babies to them.

Jay and I bought 5 slabs of chocolate from Ghiradelli Square in San Francisco for friends of ours. We came home last night and the one dog had eaten three slabs of this chocolate. The chocolate was in a packet, in my suitcase, behind a close door, but the dog got to it. Lovely dark chocolate with rose flavoring and dark chocolate with caramel inside.

The dog was rushed to the vet at 9pm and had to stay over night, vomited the chocolate up and cost $1000 in total. As a result of this escapade, Jay and I have been relocated to a motel as we were held responsible for the crazy dog eating the chocolate.

Now, I have a few things i kept to myself as we were being escorted away...

One...there is something wrong with your dog! It ate three slabs of chocolate. It dug and fought for that chocolate. I think it is tired of being on its diet (yes, it is on diet because it is 'fat') and would like to be fed more.

Two...who would pay $1000 to have a dog vomit up chocolate. It would have vomited it all up eventually if its body did not like it.

Three...our weird little cross-breed dog Jack eats chocolate plus all sorts of other things that are completely bad for dogs and it is just fine, if not stronger because of it.

Four...yall need to chill the flip out yo! It is a dog and not a human; it was just fine in the end and is back to its boring diet of dog kibble and water; and really....you can blame us all you want, but there is a reason your dog is so crazy...

So, i write this because i am annoyed because I am not the type of person who is 'escorted' from a house and because i also love my pets but i can see the difference between a pet and human being...although, if a human being ate three slabs of chocolate, i do not think i would pay $1000 to have their stomach pumped....

So this is a little story from our San Francisco adventures....at least we are free of the crazies and their dogs...