The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[ajrwdwgirl]

This is a relatively new discovery. When I was growing up, everyone had a dog. Dogs generate from a more primitive animal that instinctively eat what they can get and not what will harm them. Chocolate was never considered a problem to my knowledge. It didn't come to my attention until recently when my daughter rescued a pit bull and told me about it. However, it was never a situation of killing the animal, as in dead, but, that it might upset their system, which, btw, should be anything but sensitive, and cause diarrhea. A problem far more significant for a house bound animal. Poison is a bit overkill to me, upsetting may be more accurate, but, that is just what I know about it. I'm not denying anything, just questioning why all of a sudden this is such a problem. Bear in mind that there are absolutely no limits to what I don't know about everything.

I agree that the chocolate and some other foods are probably more upsetting to dogs than poisonous. But the xylitol is, so I looked it up. Here is a link if you are interested at all. I did learn from the site that it comes from a natural substance, I thought it was a synthetic "sugar".
https://vcahospitals.com/know-your-pet/xylitol-toxicity-in-dogs

 

[FutureCEO]

My computer is about that same age too, and is a Toshiba. My husband has a newer Dell laptop and we both took our computers in for a check up while we were on vacation and the guy said my laptop was in better shape than hubby's.

My Toshiba needed a new hard drive within four months and bit the dust 'blue screen of death' during my last week of college.

 

[DryerLintFan]

All the women on my mom's side of the family were excellent cooks, I have inherited that gene. Sometimes I'm grateful for it, but sometimes my waistline is not! I shadowed my mom a lot in the kitchen and then when she went back to work when I was in 5th grade I gradually took over a lot of cooking and baking. My dad burned a lot of stuff and my sister was a high schooler with a busy schedule and not a lot of interest in cooking so I stepped up. It was fun.

This is super important to me since I was never taught to cook. Our two year old shadows my husband in the kitchen and she has her own kitchen she loves to make believe cooking in. Mostly she just makes ladybug pancakes and centepede juice..... So maybe she'll be a terrible cook after all

 

[DryerLintFan]

This is a relatively new discovery. When I was growing up, everyone had a dog. Dogs generate from a more primitive animal that instinctively eat what they can get and not what will harm them. Chocolate was never considered a problem to my knowledge. It didn't come to my attention until recently when my daughter rescued a pit bull and told me about it. However, it was never a situation of killing the animal, as in dead, but, that it might upset their system, which, btw, should be anything but sensitive, and cause diarrhea. A problem far more significant for a house bound animal. Poison is a bit overkill to me, upsetting may be more accurate, but, that is just what I know about it. I'm not denying anything, just questioning why all of a sudden this is such a problem. Bear in mind that there are absolutely no limits to what I don't know about everything.

Our friend watched our dogs while we went on our honeymoon. We went backpacking in Torres del Paine so we couldn't keep in touch. The moment we got to a town we called him and asked if our dog ate anything because he was always eating things he shouldn't.

Turns out he ate a quart size baggie of marijuana and we learned that dogs (and humans) don't get high by eating the plant itself, it just upsets their tummy. The more you know

 

[Songbird76]

Urgghh. I'm going to need a new computer soon. My computer will be 7 in November.

Do I want to fork over money for another Mac or go with Windows. I don't know if Toshiba is still selling laptops but don't get one. That was my last PC.

I've had my Toshiba for a few years and have had no problems with it. *knock on wood*

 

[Songbird76]

This is a relatively new discovery. When I was growing up, everyone had a dog. Dogs generate from a more primitive animal that instinctively eat what they can get and not what will harm them. Chocolate was never considered a problem to my knowledge. It didn't come to my attention until recently when my daughter rescued a pit bull and told me about it. However, it was never a situation of killing the animal, as in dead, but, that it might upset their system, which, btw, should be anything but sensitive, and cause diarrhea. A problem far more significant for a house bound animal. Poison is a bit overkill to me, upsetting may be more accurate, but, that is just what I know about it. I'm not denying anything, just questioning why all of a sudden this is such a problem. Bear in mind that there are absolutely no limits to what I don't know about everything.

Well, we were warned about it when I was a kid. The guy from the chocolate company said specifically, chocolate can kill dogs, so make sure not to leave it where Fido can reach it. And that was around 30 years ago...so it's not a new issue. Perhaps when you were a kid, they didn't know that...just like they didn't know smoking while pregnant was harmful to a baby. We're constantly getting new information.

 

[DryerLintFan]

Chocolate is a sliding scale with dogs. It's harmfulness depends heavily on their weight, how much they ate, and what percentage of dark chocolate the chocolate is (milk chocolate is surprisingly more harmful). Every dog has a threshold where chocolate can kill them, though.

 

[Goofyernmost]

Well, we were warned about it when I was a kid. The guy from the chocolate company said specifically, chocolate can kill dogs, so make sure not to leave it where Fido can reach it. And that was around 30 years ago...so it's not a new issue. Perhaps when you were a kid, they didn't know that...just like they didn't know smoking while pregnant was harmful to a baby. We're constantly getting new information.

I was very careful to point out that I hadn't heard about it until recently and that I am not convinced. It has been the habit lately for people to put human issues into the physical build of animals, mostly dogs and cats. I am not convinced that they exist. That doesn't mean that if I owned either one that I wouldn't be careful about things like that because I can't prove it either way. I just am not convinced and no one has to be worried because I will never own a dog or a cat. Not my thing, but, I do see and understand the connection for others.

BTW, the smoking and babies connection was a concern over 40 years ago and even when I was a kid when everyone smoked, the physical issues were recognized and the reason why you got your butt whupped if you were caught smoking. This chocolate thing was not very widespread back then or at least not in the rural areas that I was raised in. Besides possessing that much chocolate back then was a luxury that very few could afford, so probably wasn't any real problem.

 

[Figgy1]

C'mon over and bring the steak and carrots. I'm sure he'd love both---either cooked or not! Jack's not fussy!

And just to set the record straight, that crazy dog eats better than either hubs or me!!

Pick the night and I will feed poor Jack, you and your hubs and you can feed my boys

 

[Figgy1]

I jest. I did use the oven the other day to properly cure a wing mirror cowl i had just sprayed. Can't understand why Mrs Ferret got so upset

{{HUGS}} and a stronger lock on the way to Donna. BTW what the.......

 

[Figgy1]

I think my kids hate me, they are hiding in a room and not even watching anything. Maybe can can should be every week of the year I'm sure it didn't help that I blasted Christmas music in the car, James claims it's a bit embarrassing to need an override when we heck out. They did so much complaining my dh made them rotate my pantry after lunch Guess I'm going to cook a steak tomorrow

 

[Cesar R M]

My computer is about that same age too, and is a Toshiba. My husband has a newer Dell laptop and we both took our computers in for a check up while we were on vacation and the guy said my laptop was in better shape than hubby's.

Toshibas and old IBM (now Lenovo) where built like tanks.

Dell XPS units as well.
Now they are crap plastic (specially most of the Alienware brand)

 

[Cesar R M]

So, we had a very strong lightning storm. We lost power from 12:00 am to 4:50 am.
Not fun, it was 26C with 30+C thermal feeling and we couldnt open the windows because of the rain lol.

On the good side is, the emergency lamps I bought work flawlessly, I hope they keep doing their job *knocks on wood*
In the other hand. I was finally fed up with the heat and decided to bring a pole fan to connect it to one of my computer UPS.
And guess what? power came up as I was connecting it to the battery :|


In other news, was getting quite a few links about a peanut allergy discovery.
It turns out. The more you protect your kids from everyday stuff (like peanuts) the higher the possibility they will develop allergies.
The mentality of "protect kids from everything at all costs" is actually very harmful and has caused the huge spike in allergies in recent years.

This link claimed that the earlier the kid is exposed to things like peanuts, the less probability the kid will have allergies.

Anyone knows if this is true?
I find it weird that there hasnt been a full blown reveal about this.

 

[ajrwdwgirl]

So, we had a very strong lightning storm. We lost power from 12:00 am to 4:50 am.
Not fun, it was 26C with 30+C thermal feeling and we couldnt open the windows because of the rain lol.

On the good side is, the emergency lamps I bought work flawlessly, I hope they keep doing their job *knocks on wood*
In the other hand. I was finally fed up with the heat and decided to bring a pole fan to connect it to one of my computer UPS.
And guess what? power came up as I was connecting it to the battery :|


In other news, was getting quite a few links about a peanut allergy discovery.
It turns out. The more you protect your kids from everyday stuff (like peanuts) the higher the possibility they will develop allergies.
The mentality of "protect kids from everything at all costs" is actually very harmful and has caused the huge spike in allergies in recent years.

This link claimed that the earlier the kid is exposed to things like peanuts, the less probability the kid will have allergies.

Anyone knows if this is true?
I find it weird that there hasnt been a full blown reveal about this.

Sorry about the loss of electricity and storm, but glad to hear you are up and running again.

I have heard that too about kids and allergies. It makes sense to me, I can't remember any of the kids in my class when I was a kid being allergic to anything and now there are more allergies. Although one kid I grew up with had an "allergy" to chocolate, his mom said he did but that kid ate chocolate all the time. It just is strange to me how things have developed. However, where I teach and live is a rural community and we have very few kids with allergies. In 17 years of teaching I have only had 1 student with a nut allergy and that was a mild one (he said if he ate anything with nuts his throat would get scratchy and just needed benadryl). But I have friends that teach in more urban areas and they have had many students with a multitude of allergies, many severe. So I don't know if it is just because they have more contact with more people and see it more or what. I remember reading that kids that have pets, especially dogs, have better developed immune systems because their bodies learn to deal with all the stuff dogs bring in. And my students basically all have access to many types of animals as pets and on farms so that might be a difference. I'm sure people are born with a genetic disposition to allergies too. A modern day mystery I guess.

 

[DryerLintFan]

So, we had a very strong lightning storm. We lost power from 12:00 am to 4:50 am.
Not fun, it was 26C with 30+C thermal feeling and we couldnt open the windows because of the rain lol.

On the good side is, the emergency lamps I bought work flawlessly, I hope they keep doing their job *knocks on wood*
In the other hand. I was finally fed up with the heat and decided to bring a pole fan to connect it to one of my computer UPS.
And guess what? power came up as I was connecting it to the battery :|


In other news, was getting quite a few links about a peanut allergy discovery.
It turns out. The more you protect your kids from everyday stuff (like peanuts) the higher the possibility they will develop allergies.
The mentality of "protect kids from everything at all costs" is actually very harmful and has caused the huge spike in allergies in recent years.

This link claimed that the earlier the kid is exposed to things like peanuts, the less probability the kid will have allergies.

Anyone knows if this is true?
I find it weird that there hasnt been a full blown reveal about this.

This is definitely backed by science. Our doctor told us to let our baby try everything except honey before one and to make a point of giving her peanut butter. The honey runs the risk of botulism which is usually deadly for infants.

I don't think it's fool proof though. I have a handful of friends whose kids ate peanut butter from six months on and then developed a peanut allergy in their preschool years.

 

[DryerLintFan]

Sorry about the loss of electricity and storm, but glad to hear you are up and running again.

I have heard that too about kids and allergies. It makes sense to me, I can't remember any of the kids in my class when I was a kid being allergic to anything and now there are more allergies. Although one kid I grew up with had an "allergy" to chocolate, his mom said he did but that kid ate chocolate all the time. It just is strange to me how things have developed. However, where I teach and live is a rural community and we have very few kids with allergies. In 17 years of teaching I have only had 1 student with a nut allergy and that was a mild one (he said if he ate anything with nuts his throat would get scratchy and just needed benadryl). But I have friends that teach in more urban areas and they have had many students with a multitude of allergies, many severe. So I don't know if it is just because they have more contact with more people and see it more or what. I remember reading that kids that have pets, especially dogs, have better developed immune systems because their bodies learn to deal with all the stuff dogs bring in. And my students basically all have access to many types of animals as pets and on farms so that might be a difference. I'm sure people are born with a genetic disposition to allergies too. A modern day mystery I guess.

There's an interesting correlation between allergies and poverty as well, so exposure might be the common thread. My SIL teaches in a school that serves children below the poverty line and there's one kid with allergies in the whole school. When we had our baby she was in a lower income daycare because it was the only one that offered the hours we needed and same thing there, only two children had allergies. When we switched to her current school it's all middle and upper class families and at least ten percent of the families have severe allergies.

 

[Goofyernmost]

I think my kids hate me, they are hiding in a room and not even watching anything. Maybe can can should be every week of the year I'm sure it didn't help that I blasted Christmas music in the car, James claims it's a bit embarrassing to need an override when we heck out. They did so much complaining my dh made them rotate my pantry after lunch Guess I'm going to cook a steak tomorrow

Having your kids hate you from time to time just means that you are doing your job of parenting and saving the "friend" part until they have grown.

 

[donaldtoo]

OK, it's 96 degrees here with a heat index of 108...and I just finished mowing the back yard...!!!!!
I. Am. Insane.
And, no...I'm not also mowing the front yard today. I'm soaked with sweat and need to rinse off. Then, I'm gonna' have a coupla' beers and play ketchup here...!!!

 

[donaldtoo]

There's an interesting correlation between allergies and poverty as well, so exposure might be the common thread. My SIL teaches in a school that serves children below the poverty line and there's one kid with allergies in the whole school. When we had our baby she was in a lower income daycare because it was the only one that offered the hours we needed and same thing there, only two children had allergies. When we switched to her current school it's all middle and upper class families and at least ten percent of the families have severe allergies.

Maybe they're allergic to money...?!

 

[MOXOMUMD]