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In March 2016, a message reporting that a Nylabone brand pet product had caused a dog to have a seizure began circulating on Facebook, with the earliest iteration of the claim we could find having been posted on 8 March 2016 by Samantha Love: Although Samantha Love's dog may have suffered a seizure while chewing on a Nylabone product, there's no evidence proving a cause-and-effect relationship between those two phenomena. Love apparently based her claim on the notion that one of the side effects of Nylabones is that they are toxic and can cause seizures, information she supposedly found through a Google search but for which she provided no relevant links. We attempted to replicate Love's search but couldn't find any source claiming that Nylabones were toxic or that one of their side effects was seizures. While Love did not identify a specific product in her Facebook post, it's likely that she was referring to Nylabone's FlexiChew Bone — Chicken item. This product is made from Inert Soft Thermoplastic Polymer and Chicken Flavor and comes with a warning that it is not recommended for strong chewers. On 11 March 2016, Nylabone released a statement concerning the misinformation about their product line that was circulating on Facebook:
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