PORTLAND, Ore. – Most of us know that feeding chocolate to Fido is a no-no and that we need to keep dogs away from chicken bones, but did you know that gum can sicken or even kill your pooch?

Some vets don’t know even know about it, and neither did a Seattle woman until her dog slipped into a coma.

It was Easter Sunday and the Crandall family was at the beach with Shenley, a 60-pound chocolate lab. The dog was happily chasing a tennis ball and crashing into the waves over and over again.

But things changed quickly.

“It happened so fast, we had just seen her,” said Caitlin Crandall. “We couldn’t find her – it was horrible.”

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