TV host Paul O’Grady has been left heartbroken after his dog Bullseye consumed some chocolate and died following an epileptic fit.
The For The Love Of Dogs host told listeners to his Sunday BBC radio programme : "Now I will tell you my lousy news, You know that I did have an epileptic dog called Bullseye. I’ve got two dogs that both have epilepsy and I’ve managed it with medication.
However on Monday night he had a massive seizure - like a really bad one that he didn’t come out of - and on the way to the vets at two o’clock in the morning he died in the car.
"I can’t tell you, poor old Bullseye. He was such a lovely dog, he had a thing about doorways, you had to coax him through them and he wouldn’t go upstairs. It was part of his condition I think, he was a sweet little dog and sadly missed."
Meanwhile, the genial presenter had a stark warning for dog owners about chocolate. He said when he got home from the vets his other dog had eaten an 80% cocoa chocolate bar and had to be brought to the vet who had declared Bullseye dead just hours before.
"I get home from the vets and one of my other dogs had found a bar of chocolate that was 80% cocoa, that had been left out stupidly – not by me, I don’t like chocolate – on the coffee table.
"So we had to go back, it was the same emergency vet, for her to get her stomach pumped and we got her back two days later looking worse for wear because she was covered in charcoal - because you know they give them charcoal at the vets," he said.
