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[rogruth]

Thanks all.
When I asked the veternarians I was usually told that there was something it it that would kill dogs. So I guess it will also kill cats and other animals.

[robert.]

Murph,cashews from that turtle might get you before its chocolate does. My dog died from sorbitol. It took about 3 hours for kidney failure.4 days after that we had to put him to sleep. He eat one rack pack of trident gum( 150-200 pieces)

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Murph,cashews from that turtle might get you before its chocolate does. My dog died from sorbitol...

Interesting. A relative who worked at a hospital for decades told me recently that it was nuts that cause those polyps proctologists go spelunking for during a colocystectomy . Due to insufficient mastication?

[rogruth]

yeah. I was told not to eat nuts, corn and similar stuff because of diverticulitis/stenosis.
I don't eat those things, all of which I like, and have not have anymore problems.

[webenda]

But do you agree I should never eat chocolate again?

Not at all. As with all things we eat, moderation is wise.
Read this article: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/a ... art-health
Notice the second line, "Why a little, in moderation, may be beneficial."
Keyword: moderation

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Thank you, Wayne, I read it all and have learned. Moderation, yes. Dark, better.

[herronpeter]

My 13 year old Springer, Milo, ate 4 or 5 brownies while we were out and a quick call to the vet said to try to make him throw up. They told Lauri to give him some hydrogen peroxide. Well he wouldn't drink it, duh, he's a dog and pretty smart. Soooo they said to put it on bread. We did, he ate it and nothing happened. They said do it again and make him run around. So Lauri has him in the driveway throwing his ball for about an hour until he gets so exhausted he can hardly walk and her arm is so sore she can hardly use it and nope, he didn't throw up. Other than being pooped he seemed fine. We were sitting around waiting for the diarrhea to start and nothing happened. Went to bed expecting a mess. He got up at his usual 6 AM and I let him out and he made a perfectly normal poop. About 2:00 PM he was out and made another poop that was a little runny and after that he was fine, still is. Still wondering if that was from the chocolate or the hydrogen peroxide/bread "treat" we gave him.

Peter

[webenda]

My 13 year old Springer, Milo, ate 4 or 5 brownies while we were out

Peter

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Reference: http://www.petmd.com/dog/chocolate-toxicity

Maybe the claim about dogs and chocolate is exaggerated?

[Seaboard Air Line Fan]

My ex had a horse named Virginia Prince, he was 16 hands tall, whatever that means.

Anyway, we get a phone call one day saying Prince had broken into the grain bin and had eaten almost 100 lbs of grain, then went for a swim in the pond they had on the ranch.

All he ever got was a bit of diarrhea, we thought he might explode if he drank any water out of the pond!

He would also eat hamburgers from McDonalds and somehow spit the pickle out.

[J. S. Bach]

He would also eat hamburgers from McDonalds and somehow spit the pickle out.

Odd, I had a cat that liked the pickles in a Big Mac.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Gotta go. "House of Lies" is on SHOWTIME, all of season4, a retrospective. Coooooooaaaaal! Talk to y'all laytah, broz.

Wait. Now I'm watching (going back-n-forth) "WeWere Soldiers" (2002) on CMAX. Can somebody remind me again why we were there. I don't think I ever understood. And still do not. Or am I still not supposed to ask. I mean, WTF !!?

And that was my generation, which went directly from riding their bicycles and graduating high school to trucks that took them away to a hellhole their best imaginations couldn't conjure up for them as preparation.

And there were girlfriends who never saw their handsome young gods again, and whole neighborhoods and families who never saw their beautiful sons again.

It all still chokes my throat and pokes me in the eyes when I witness, through such movies and through the words of my friends, what we lost.

And I will go to my grave still not knowing the answer to WTF ?

[webenda]

Can somebody remind me again why we were there.

To stop the spread of communism. It was an ideological war.

Some claim it had to do with oil. Not so... here is what we import from Viet Nam:

The top imports categories (2-digit HS) for 2013 were: Knit Apparel ($4.7 billion), Woven Apparel ($3.3 billion), Footwear ($2.9 billion), Furniture and Bedding ($2.6 billion), and Machinery ($2.1 billion).

U.S. imports of agricultural products from Vietnam totaled $1.5 billion in 2013, the 20th largest ag supplier. Leading categories include: tree nuts ($527 million) and coffee (unroasted) ($468 million).

Oil doesn't even make the top import list.

I bet we get a lot of none model train response on this one. Bring it on... I want to hear your theories.

Just to keep it train related I am adding a Vietnamese train photo.

[rogruth]

I never heard what I considered to be good explanations of why we were in Viet Nam. The turmoil caused by that war still is with us.
I grew up during WW II and did not understand those that objected to serving their country. Itried to enlist in 1957 but was turned down because I had a wife and two kids. Most people that I knew did not protest the war. Many did not like it but served. The only person from my home town to go to West Point, two years older than I was, wasalso the first from my home town to die in Nam. I had friends that enlisted. One did four tours there. There are gory details of which I will NOT write.
Most other wars in which the U.S. participated we felt justified because we were attacked in some way and felt we needed vengeance. Not so for Nam.There were some that would always do what their country asked and others that would question what their country asked. I am not prepared or willing to defend either side. I will say that if I had been drafted I would have gone with out protest. Some make much out of the fact that the Armed Forces of the U.S. are now all volunteer and that this is much better than when there were draftees because today they do it for the country. I live near Fort Stewart and have talked to many soldiers of all ranks. Many joined the forces with the idea that they would play a little war, get paid and possibly be able to further there education. Many officers and NCOs were hard put to keep peace in the ranks and stop desertion. Most today understand that they really might have to play war for real and get shot at.
My personal opinion of the Viet Nam period is that we somehow got scammed into fixing what the French had really messed up. Nam was part of French Indo China in the 1930s and had agreed to get out and let Nam have self rule but WW II interfered and the French stayed to help out. Some time during this period elections were held and Ho Chi Minh was elected president but the French did not think this would be a good time to change governments. They were pprobably right but after WW II the French did not want to let the elected government take over so the French and the Viets warred and the French left and VietNam was split.Then some how the protectors of the world got into it and we are still fighting it.
Of course the above is my opinion and I do not have the desire to go on a crusade of any kind. I was alive during that time and did not understand and still don't understand well enough to defend either side.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Some claim it had to do with oil.

The ex-CIA op that I worked for about 45 years ago claimed that. He claimed a lot of things that promoted serious head scratching.

Strangely enough, much that promoted head scratching decades ago doesn't now...........

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Murph,cashews from that turtle might get you before its chocolate does. My dog died from sorbitol. It took about 3 hours for kidney failure.4 days after that we had to put him to sleep. He eat one rack pack of trident gum( 150-200 pieces)

Probably not from sorbitol. More than likely xylitol. Xylitol is a sugar substitute like sorbitol; unlike sorbitol, xylitol is incredibly toxic to dogs.