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I was just watching the pop news show - America Now. They had a story on how dangerous (even deadly) XYLITOL is to dogs. I guess that ingredient is found in almost every type of sugarless gum. The guy on the show lost his beautiful great dane to the poison.

http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/xylitol.asp

A Heads-Up From Palmersville.

PS: The guy thinks his dog ate some from the sidewalk on their daily 4-mile walk.

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Wow, this is really scary especially if you have dogs that are not finicky about what they eat. Thanks for posting.

There was a post over on rv.net that xylitol was in one of the drugs given to an owner's dog, causing the dog to seize. It was scary reading that.

Thanks Mitch. I just put my gum up in the cabinet where I know the Chewmonster can't get it. She pretty much eats anything and everthing so will be watching for used gum on the ground when I walk her now. Pretty scary stuff!!

Thank you for posting. I didn't know what xylitol was. Looked it up to find it is an artificial sweetener. Although Tyler is a very picky eater - wont even take a treat without smelling it and nudging it with his nose first I have had dogs that will eat anything without looking to see what it is. I will be careful to dispose gum to make sure any pet will not be able to get to it.

I just read about a ferret that died too, from eating sugarless gum with that in it.

That is certainly some nasty stuff. My niece had a Beagle pup that picked up someone's gum. We were at a truck stop, taking the pup for her 1st ride with the rest of the group. When walking her back to the truck,I noticed she was chewing something. I did take it out of her mouth and tossed it aside and thought no more about it. Sadly, she didn't last more than 3 days after chewing the gum. I never put the two together until now. Now I feel guilty about just tossing the gum aside.

I knew about that - since I don't chew gum, mainly worry about it with Peaches cuz she finds and eats most everything. Hopefully not that! Good reminder.

Since I have dentures top and bottom, I don't chew gum, but will sure watch out to make sure the dogs don't get a hold of any now. While they were only in their own yard, never had to worry about things like that.