Why not increase the dosage? - Tina

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Hi, PITA, er, I mean Chuck! [ggg] We have two each dogs and cats and my

wife has a fit if either one has any kind of access to chocolate. Is

chocolate supposed to be poison to both dogs and cats? I just read THE

CAT WHO WENT TO PARIS and the author mentioned giving his cat chocolate

as a treat.

PS: FWIW I felt Ms was totally out of line in the recent

exchange. No doubt she needs a double dose of something [maybe exlax!

{ggg}].

Message: 10 Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 18:23:13 -0500 (CDT) From:

Blatchley <cblatchl@...> Subject: Re: Why not increase the

dosage? - Tina , You wrote:

>> I suspect that the reactions of dogs and humans are similar in many cases;

....

>

>

One big difference is the biological half life for T4. In humans, it is about

6.5

days, nearly a week. In dogs, it is only about 6 hours, about the same as for

caffeine

in humans. This means the replacement dose for dogs is much larger than for

humans,

and that the dose should be spread out over at least two administrations per

day.

You also should not give them chocolate and very limited cheese, unless you want

trouble.

Chuck

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