Damn Belgians

Christmas eve I made what has apparently become an annual tradition: a trip to Trader Joe's for some last minute holiday treats." Those candy cane sugar cookies looked good. Into the basket! Chocolate fudgie thingies ? Into the basket! One pound bars of imported Belgian chocolate?  ( if it's half as good as their beer...) Into the basket!  Fast forward a couple weeks ...one of those hefty cocoa bars was forgotten in a bag , left on a chair , in our living room. Then it was discovered by our dog, an undersized 20 month-old black lab mix. Discovered, then consumed in it's entirety in about three minutes. An emergency trip to the vet,  $350( and many worried  children's tears ) later she is back to her old self, aside for the fact that when she does her "business" it looks more like something out of a Kingsford bag due to the charcoal gunk she has been having to take. Another Belgian catastrophe averted. Damn Belgians. 

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