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Cocoa Mulch HARMFUL to Pets!!!!
Jun 4, 2008

REMINDER...Cocoa Mulch HARMFUL to Pets!!!!
Animals  (tags: dogs cats lethal theobromine mulch cocoa )

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Cocoa mulch contains Theobromine. This is LETHAL to cats & dogs.
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Over the weekend the doting owner of two young lab mixes purchased Cocoa Mulch from Target to use in their garden. They loved the way it smelled and it was advertised to keep cats away from their garden. Their dog Calypso, decided that the mulch smelled good enough to eat and devoured a large helping. She vomited a few times which was typical when she eats something new but wasn't acting lethargic in any way. The next day, Mom woke up and took Calypso out for her morning walk. Half way through the walk, she had a seizure and died instantly.

Although the mulch had NO warnings printed on the label, upon further investigation on the companies web site, this product is HIGHLY toxic to dogs.

Cocoa Mulch is manufactured by Hershey's, and they claim that 'It is true that studies have shown that 50% of th e dogs that eat Cocoa Mulch can suffer physical harm to a variety of degrees (depending on each individual dog). However, 98% of all dogs won't eat it.'

True information about the mulch can be found here - http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/cocoa.htm
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Cocoa Mulch, which is sold by Home Depot, Foreman's Garden Supply and other Garden supply stores, contains a lethal ingredient called 'Theo bromine'.

It is lethal to dogs and cats. It smells like chocolate and it really attracts dogs. They will ingest this stuff and die. Several deaths already occurred in the last 2-3 weeks. J ust a word of caution check what you are using in your gardens and be aware of what your gardeners are using in your gardens.

Theo bromine is the ingredient that is used to make all chocolate especially dark or baker's chocolate which is toxic to dogs.

Cocoa bean shells contain potentially toxic quantities of theobromine, a xanthine compound similar in effects to caffeine and theophylline. A dog that ingested a lethal quantity of garden mulch made from cacao bean shells developed severe convulsions and died 17 hours later. Analysis of the stomach contents and the ingested cacao bean shells revealed the presence of lethal amounts of theobromine.
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Kathryn W. (0) 		Wednesday June 18, 2008, 7:54 am
Its mind boggling how far the common sense stretch goes with the human mind. Cocoa has been known to be harmful to dogs- yet people go buy Cocoa mulch and don't read the ingredients? Its made of Cacao bean shells- and humans don't equate this as chocolate? No, they like the smell more then their beloved pets. If I had another species to choose from than human, I'd be tempted- because behavior of the human being (the educated? ones), not always the most intelligent is embarrassing.

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