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Marlee · 03-19-2005, 04:14 PM

Hi everyone,
I just thought I would add my two and a half cents here...

I have had several people over the years tell me how bad chocolate is for dogs, deadly even. You can imagine my horror when I came home one day and found my dog Nova ( a doberman)had stood up to the counter and knocked my cake keeper over and ate the contents, a super rich double fudge cake with pieces of chocolate bars accenting each slice. (this was a great cake by the way)Anyways I had a compleate come apart thinking my dog was going to die. I rushed her to the vet and from there we called the poison control hotline for animals. I was then told that yes chocolate can be dangerous to dogs, but there are a few things to consider. The amount of chocolate that they eat, and the kind of chocolate that they eat. The amount can vary quite a bit from one chocolate to antoher for instance, milk has hardly any effect if any if given in reasonable amouts, (i.e a yorkie can have m&m's and mini peanit butter cups ok, however you might not want to pass them that slice of cake) The darker chocolates is where is gets a bit tricky. Special Dark still has a lot of other stuff and though it will not kill them will definalty give them a really bad case of runs. (we are talking tiny amounts here by the way) Bakers chocolate is the one to worry about, it has a very high chocolate content and the toxins for dog are very high, a regular sized bar for a doberman will make it very, very sick, a regular sized bar for a yorkie will indeed cause death.

So there you go, milk chocolate on the occasion is ok ( from animal poison control) as long as it is given in small amounts and your own dog's system can handle it, if they cant you will know it but the amount of poopsie you see very quickly. And be wary of anything darker, becasue it will likely upset their system.

Just as a side note, Nova was fine after that, licked her chops all the way there and back from the vets. And until she passed would always try and sneak cake here and there becasue she loved it so much.

03-19-2005, 04:14 PM	#9
Marlee YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Caldwell Idaho Posts: 956	Hi everyone, I just thought I would add my two and a half cents here... I have had several people over the years tell me how bad chocolate is for dogs, deadly even. You can imagine my horror when I came home one day and found my dog Nova ( a doberman)had stood up to the counter and knocked my cake keeper over and ate the contents, a super rich double fudge cake with pieces of chocolate bars accenting each slice. (this was a great cake by the way)Anyways I had a compleate come apart thinking my dog was going to die. I rushed her to the vet and from there we called the poison control hotline for animals. I was then told that yes chocolate can be dangerous to dogs, but there are a few things to consider. The amount of chocolate that they eat, and the kind of chocolate that they eat. The amount can vary quite a bit from one chocolate to antoher for instance, milk has hardly any effect if any if given in reasonable amouts, (i.e a yorkie can have m&m's and mini peanit butter cups ok, however you might not want to pass them that slice of cake) The darker chocolates is where is gets a bit tricky. Special Dark still has a lot of other stuff and though it will not kill them will definalty give them a really bad case of runs. (we are talking tiny amounts here by the way) Bakers chocolate is the one to worry about, it has a very high chocolate content and the toxins for dog are very high, a regular sized bar for a doberman will make it very, very sick, a regular sized bar for a yorkie will indeed cause death. So there you go, milk chocolate on the occasion is ok ( from animal poison control) as long as it is given in small amounts and your own dog's system can handle it, if they cant you will know it but the amount of poopsie you see very quickly. And be wary of anything darker, becasue it will likely upset their system. Just as a side note, Nova was fine after that, licked her chops all the way there and back from the vets. And until she passed would always try and sneak cake here and there becasue she loved it so much.