Yup! Christmas is coming!

Friday I got busy and wrapped some Christmas presents. I was in a bit of a rush and was wrapping in warp speed to be able to make an appointment.  All nicely wrapped, I popped the gifts I'd wrapped under the tree and got ready and left for my appointment. Two hours later I got a call, on my cell, from my son; "When are you coming home?". I could tell by his tone of voice something was definitely not good. "What happened?", I asked. "Hope ripped into some of the presents and she ate a whole bunch of chocolates".
Nine of the boxes I wrapped were Toffifee, the small 15 piece packages - I thought it'd be nice to give one to each family member for Christmas *~*. I asked my son to take the dog outside for a bit then leave her in the laundry room until I got home. I didn't know how much she'd eaten and whether she'd be sick or not. When I arrived home I discovered out of the nine boxes of Toffifee she had eaten 4 whole boxes - that's 60 pieces and she had also ripped into and ate a tray of cherries cordial chocolate which amounted to another 6 pieces. All in all I knew that wasn't likely a toxic level of chocolate but it wasn't good for her to have all that sugar in her either. (Strangely enough she was not climbing the drapes on a sugar high). I called the vet and their recommendation was to give her a tablespoon of hydrogen peroxide to induce vomiting!?? I didn't know you could ingest that stuff? So I grabbed my old children's liquid medication syringe and force fed her the hydrogen peroxide. The vet said we may have to wait about 20 min. for it to work so my husband and I watched her (she was outside), from the kitchen window.  Not even ten minutes later she emptied her stomach and an awful lot of chocolate was evacuated including the whole hazelnuts from the middle of each Toffifee. :-P I never even thought this dog could smell chocolate through plastic cellophane, cardboard and wrapping paper. I guess until Christmas is over she'll have to camp out in the laundry room when I need to go out. There are definitely some drawbacks to dog ownership! Ho, Ho, Ho!