[Andy-bott]

Why can my cat eat a raw bird without so much a burp, but give it a chocolate button and it s**ts pure liquid.

I on the other hand eat vast amounts of chocolate without so much as a hic-up yet the raw sausage I ate this morning took exactly 11 minutes to liquefy.

odd.

[Chrz]

i've no idea but maybe its the additives and man-made stuff in it...

yes... very odd, odd enough to be posted on a message board? That question remains...

[Console]

Chocolate is toxic to most living beings, which is why your cat reacts badly to it. In humans you'd have to eat a very large amount to die from the toxicity, infact it's unlikely that a human could actually consume enough chocolate within the given time to die from it, but animals have a far lower tolerance to it.

[Bricktop]

It's all to do with the digestive system. Lets compare a carnivore like a cat with a herbivore like a goat or a horse. Goats and horses evolved from ancestors that subsisted on plants and adapted parts of their digestive tracts into massive fermentation vats which enabled them to efficiently utilize cellulose, the major carbohydrate of plants.

In contrast, cats evolved from animals that lived on the carcasses of other animals, and have digestive systems that reflect this history - extremely small fermentation vats and essentially no ability to utilize cellulose. Bridging the gap between carnivores and herbivores are omnivores like humans and pigs, whose digestive tracts attest to a historical diet that included both plants and animals.

[RussT]

That post was far too technical for this forum

[DemonHorse]

I'll have you know I understood every single word... and can probably name the encyclopedia it was taken from :-p

and on the subject of lethal chocolate, I do remember an episode of CSI where a guy died by chocolate... all based in fact, however loosely.

[Console]

It was from about.com.

I've never watched CSI, so I don't know the episode you're talking about, but was the guy that suffered a death-by-chocolate fat/obese? From memory, the amount of chocolate you'd need to consume to die from it is more than the average human can eat.

[Bricktop]

It was from about.com.

Actually it was from here-

http://b-naturals.com/Mar2005.php

[RussT]

No thanks Turkish - I'm sweet enough

[Bricktop]

Do you know what "nemesis" means? A righteous infliction of retribution manifested by an appropriate agent. Personified in this case by an 'orrible *... me.

[RussT]

'e goes dahn in the forf

[Betti911]

Oooops will think twice before feeding chocolate to my boyfriends dog.

[Betti911]

Oooops will think twice before feeding chocolate to my boyfriends dog.

[Andy-bott]

Thakyou all for your advice. You have really helped solve the mystery.

[Quincy]

think twice before posting twice betti

[Andy-bott]

I have discovered that it takes 128 chocolate buttons to kill a cat. He has been peacefully laid to rest under a Loral bush in my back garden. My friends two children (aged 4 and 7 ) are now terrified of both my Loral bush and choccy buttons

[Betti911]

think twice before posting twice betti

I didn't double post really... you're just drunk

[Dr. Nick]

I have discovered that it takes 128 chocolate buttons to kill a cat..

Fed to it, or frozen and fired from some kind of chocolate gun?

[Boboff]

I have found they don't work that well in the summer.
Your shirt comes undone when they melt... My teapot's useless as well !

[Bear]

Poor CAT CAT. Don't be mean about CATS. There cute.

Theres a kitten next door and they let it out and it hasn't come back yet