Comments on: What To Do If Your Dog Ingests Chocolate

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.

By: Garnet

Garnet — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 17:05:04 +0000

The other night one of my Shih Tzu puppies got the lid off of some chocolate B$J’s.. the people were having some and since there wasnt much on the lid I decided to let them have it.. Sasha got most of it and that night I woke up with him yipping which was completely unusual.. I took him outside and he seemed ok so I went back to bed. That morning when I got up I found several places where he threw up after I let him back in..when I went to ck on him he had thrown up again. He was listless and definitely not his usual self so I decided to take him to the vet.. (although he is fully vaccinated we have had a parvo scare in this area) so the vet checked him out.. droopy, slightly subnormal temp and slightly dehydrated so they gave him fluid and some anti nausea meds and I took him home. At lunchtime he was still droopy but when I got home from work he was back to normal and practically leaping over the puppy fence. I didn’t think about the chocolate ice-cream lid until later but you can be sure I will never ever take that risk again.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 09:05:55 +0000

I think the chocolate issue is the same as with humans, some people are just allergic to some food and some dogs may have reaction to chocolate.
I am 44 and we had dogs all my life, my mom had a german shepard and a doberman she used to make them a plate of fudge to share and they never got sick once, they both lived to be over 12yrs old and never had any health problems other then the usual age related things. They also ate only table scraps.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:31:23 +0000

That’s quite the story Pete. From my experience, it takes a huge amount of chocolate to really do any damage, especially if it’s milk chocolate. Darker chocolate is much more potent however. My dog got to the point of vomiting and tipping over from 5lbs. of 50% dark chocolate but never suffered any permanent problems.

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:27:05 +0000

I was on a trip to Canada and brought home 40 of my families favorite chocolate bars. I neatly stacked them on the counter so my wife would be surprised.
I came back about a half hour later to find only 4 bars left. After checking with my daughter who didn’t move the chocolate bars, I started looking for the dog. (80 lb Weimaraner)
I found him lying upside down in the back yard. I thought he was dead. When I went outside, he got up and acted as if nothing had happened. It turned out he was just sunning himself after eating 36 candy bars. He was quite happy. I didn’t bother to call the vet this time.
We did after he ate 2 Easter Baskets of high quality chocolate. The vet asked if he looked O.K? When we told him he did, he said not to worry.
It turned out this dog loved chocolate. We didn’t intentionally feed him any, but no chocolate was safe in our house. He got the Haloween candy and carefully ate all the chocolate, leaving everything else.
Go Figure.