Comments on: What To Do If Your Dog Ingests Chocolate

By: Kooldog

Kooldog — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 00:19:48 +0000

Thanks, I heard about this but didn’t know that it can be this serious…thanks god, nothing has happened to my dog… I guess I need to be extra carfull with Chocolates around house.

By: Hawkeye

Hawkeye — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 20:04:50 +0000

My 45 lb mixed breed ate 24 chocolate cupcakes with chocolate icing paper and all when she was 4 or 5 years old. No ill effect seen and she is still alive today at age 15..

By: SD

SD — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:20:59 +0000

Sounds like we’ve all had similar experiences with naughty dogs getting into food they shouldn’t. We had 2 llhasas who ripped open a 1.5 bag of Kisses and ate every piece! I did induce vomiting so they were fine…although our yard glistened with rainbow foil for several weeks! A few months later, they devoured 2 dozen chocolate chip cookies I had just baked for our visitors. I was so disgusted with those dogs that I just figured I’d let them feel miserable and sick. Know what? They were perfectly fine…and happy as could be. From that point on, we’d sneak them a chocolate treat on special occasions. They each lived to be 13 years old. I guess some are more sensitive to the chemicals that others.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:23:27 +0000

My fourteen pound dachshund mix ate one of those giant limited-edition Hershey’s Kisses when my brother left it on the floor.
Thankfully, my parents came home fairly soon after and took him to the vet, where he was given hydrogen peroxide and made to puke it all up.
He was fine after that, he just had to eat special food that night that was easy for him to digest.

By: Zolismom

Zolismom — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 02:44:33 +0000

My 23 pnd schnauzer at my chocolate cupcake. I didn’t know she had until we got home and I picked up the little box that it was in. She was really neat and even closed the lid. I was scared something awful and watched her for hours. That cupcake had a ton of chocolate frosting on top. Nothing ever happened, nada, not one thing! I read that it was the caffine that is the problem. Maybe it was caffine free chocolate?

By: David C

David C — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:34:51 +0000

I agree with the first comment that most articles on the net make chocolate out to be the arsenic laced food for dogs and I don’t agree. My Beagle (little rascals that they all are) decided to somehow jump up on the kitchen counter and have a go at a medium sized bowl of chocolate kisses. I’d say somewhere around 15-20 of them. It was late and the vet was closed so we watched her very closely to see if she reacted badly. For the rest of the night and even into the next morning she was way more hyper than usual (sugar high) and had diarrhea. That was the extent of her reaction to the chocolate. Called the vet the next morning and asked what we should do,they said the biggest problems they had with dogs eating chocolate was the wrappers clogging their digestion and that the real problems come when it’s dark chocolate at all or milk chocolate is very large doses. The funny side of this story is that wrappers were not a problem since she beautifully unwrapped every single one and laid out the open wrappers all over the house for us to easily pick up. None of them torn at all, I have no idea how because even I tear the wrappers when eating Hershey Kisses.

By: Arwen

Arwen — Thu, 05 May 2011 21:13:22 +0000

I have a similar experience – our beagle Maggie, aka Hoover, found a huge box with Valentine’s chocolates, got the cellophane off, opened the box, ate all the pieces out of their individual wrappings, and we never knew it until several days later. This dog takes more kill…

By: Casey

Casey — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 22:18:46 +0000

3 Hershey’s Kisses should be fine; they’re pretty low in chocolate. I’d be more worried about the sugar content.

Also, water is the better option; dogs are lactose-intolerant.

By: pets

pets — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:58:46 +0000

My dog ate three kisses maybe 4 or 5 kisses i gave him a glass of warm milk but i am still worried…………

By: Principle

Principle — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 03:31:38 +0000

Another way to reduce toxicity of poisons is to feed the dog vitamin C! Feed the dog some burnt toast or burnt dog treats and give them real vitamin C, not the synthetic crap. The synthetic absorbic acid is very acidic and will cause stomach problems with limited absorption, but whole food vitamin C is much less acidic and will be absorbed much better. Ester C is also much better if readily available. Raw or human table scraps may provide a dog with many more nutrients than commercial dog food which is why they often have better immunity and live longer.

Vitamin C reduces poison toxicity, and dogs don’t make enough of their own Vitamin C, so add it to their food regularly as well.