This from the letters page of the new May BBC GW mag:

A reader wrote in to emphasise the danger of using cocoa shell mulches
in gardens with dogs. Their local dog club had already confirmed a
bitch dead due to eating cocoa shells. Apparently their chocolate
smell attracts the dogs, but they contain theobromine which even in
small quantities can kill a dog (so don't give one pieces from a human
chocolate bar either, no matter how much they beg!)

A manufacturer replied to the letter, saying there is a warning on the
bags. How many of us read the print on such things? They recommend
using bark mulches instead.


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jane

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone,
you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
Mark Twain

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