Testing for weedkiller

[saxy_jag]

Is there any simple way of finding out whether a piece of chocolate has been laced with, say, weedkiller or creosote?

Twice in the past couple of days my mum has found great chunks of very crudely moulded (as though made in an ice-cube tray) chocolate in her yard. The dogs appear to have mouthed it and left it. It smells funny, sort of metallic and soil-y. I suspect someone may be trying to poison our dogs, but I have no concrete evidence as to their guilt and I don't want to go to the police with this 'chocolate' if that's all it turns out to be.

[garner]

Oh dear saxy what can I say, I would be incvlined to post this in animals and nature.The site has some very knowledgeable users and they maybe able to help.What a worry!.g.

[Teddio]

Sounds to me like cooking chocolate, not pleasant to eat but harmless. If you suspect the chocolate contains a toxin you could get it analysed but the process is very expensive.

[saxy_jag]

Thanks for your concern. We've frozen it for now, but we're thinking, first of all, of getting the vet to send it for testing before we do anything. Luckily the dogs seemed to loose interest in it and are all fine - the little one won't have anything to do with big chunks of anything, the biggest is a finicky eater and wouldn't touch it, and the middle one, my own dog, left it alone. That's what made us think something wasn't right. She normally loves chocolate (and no, she doesn't get any as a rule) and would have picked up, taken it into a corner and guarded it - but she didn't.

It rather looks as though someone's used cooking chocolate, melted it down and remoulded it into something like an ice-cube tray. It's very crudely done, as I said, and doesn't look like commercially moulded stuff at all.

There are circumstances that lead us to think someone could be out to poison the dogs, so we're keen to get this sorted.

[szetank]

Chocolate is poison to dogs