First time I made them was for a Christmas dinner. I made them Christmas Eve and had 6 dozen big ones on trays on the kitchen counter.
Left for a late Christmas Eve service, came home and the empty trays were on the floor. My black lab looked like a balloon and was sick for days.
I haven’t made them (from scratch) but I do have a dog eating the dinner story. Our rescue had been found eating rocks at a park to fill her belly. Just a week or two after we adopted her, I had an accident in the family room, where we were beginning to have hotdogs and kraut for dinner. I had to go to to the emergency room. The new puppy ate all of the hotdogs, with or without sauerkraut and mustard. Had a belly ache, but was mostly ok. She was better off than me!
LOL!!!
Reminds Me of when My Parents bought a supply of Dehydrated Foods when I was a kid. There was dehydrated beef chunks that weren’t too bad. One day a butter tub of them was left on the counter and Our Cat- Tiki was a huge (had a 13-1/2” neck) black cat that was meaner than a junkyard dog and ruled the neighborhood. He’d come back home after being gone a few days and would have a big draining hole on the side of His face and be all scratched up from fighting other cats and He was the winner of the fights. He’d lay around the house for a few days and heal up.
One time He ate the whole bowl of that meat and then started drinking water. He started to swell up and when We figured out what had happened we called the Veterinary Office and asked what to do. They said to only give Him a limited amount of water to prevent exploding His stomach and in a few days it would start to pass. It was 1-1/2 weeks before He was back to normal.
He stopped jumping up on the counter after that to steal food.