Is chocolate really toxic for dogs?

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Posted: 8/28/2004 9:30:15 PM EDT

I'd heard it's not good for them, but why?

Posted: 8/28/2004 9:31:13 PM EDT

[#1]

its something about the theobromine in the chocolate.

Posted: 8/28/2004 9:33:00 PM EDT

[#2]

I don't know. My Lab gets chocolate and other sources of refined sugar from time to time (my 5 year old likes to share). It hasn't had an ill affect on her yet.

Posted: 8/28/2004 9:33:21 PM EDT

[#3]

My understanding is that though milk chocolate is not good for them only dark chocolate is actually toxic. Don't risk it anyway dogs prefer meat to chocolate.

Posted: 8/28/2004 9:34:14 PM EDT

[#4]

Theobromine acts like caffeine in dogs; heart beats itself to death.

-hanko

Posted: 8/28/2004 9:34:27 PM EDT

[#5]

my brother has 3 punk ass dogs that have attacked all manner of chocolates many times and not one has died yet.

Posted: 8/28/2004 9:35:26 PM EDT

[#6]

Yes. Dark chocolate's more toxic because there more of the theobromide alkaloid in it than milk chocolate. Like there's more alcohol in brandy than wine.

Dogs' system cant handle it, they can die from it. Even though it tastes good to them as it does to us.

Posted: 8/28/2004 9:35:57 PM EDT

[#7]

The toxin in chocolate builds up in dogs they can't get rid of it to easy ,there is a chocolate that is for dogs you can find it in a pet food/supply stores.

Posted: 8/28/2004 9:37:11 PM EDT

[#8]

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I don't know. My Lab gets chocolate and other sources of refined sugar from time to time (my 5 year old likes to share). It hasn't had an ill affect on her yet.

If you bought gourmet 80% cacao dark chocolate and fed your dog three or four bars of it, she would probably die. Commercial milk chocolate is very thin and weak.

Posted: 8/28/2004 9:39:54 PM EDT

[#9]

milk chocolate is not the best..but OK..

baking chocolate is a bitch on their system and theobromine is the culbrit.

Posted: 8/28/2004 9:41:17 PM EDT

[#10]

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I don't know. My Lab gets chocolate and other sources of refined sugar from time to time (my 5 year old likes to share). It hasn't had an ill affect on her yet.

If you bought gourmet 80% cacao dark chocolate and fed your dog three or four bars of it, she would probably die. Commercial milk chocolate is very thin and weak.

That gourmet stuff is crap. My dog likes Hershey's.

Posted: 8/28/2004 9:42:09 PM EDT

[#11]

Have a dog, ate a one of those huge giant herhsey kisses didnt do anything to it. Then again this dog eats everything. The bastard.

Posted: 8/28/2004 9:43:32 PM EDT

[#12]

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I don't know. My Lab gets chocolate and other sources of refined sugar from time to time (my 5 year old likes to share). It hasn't had an ill affect on her yet.

If you bought gourmet 80% cacao dark chocolate and fed your dog three or four bars of it, she would probably die. Commercial milk chocolate is very thin and weak.

That gourmet stuff is crap. My dog likes Hershey's.

Just understand she could die from it. I'm sure dogs find chocolate as tasty as we do, just as they like bacon, steak, chicken, pork chops, etc etc.

My cat would turn its nose up at scraps of NY strip.

Posted: 8/28/2004 9:46:03 PM EDT

[#13]

It's supposed to be , but you couldn’t prove it by one of my Goldens . A few years ago
he ate 3+ lbs of Double chocolate fudge after one of the kids left the top off the tin it was in .
The only ill effects were some wicked dog farts .... Not that dog farts are ever good , but these had extra potency

Posted: 8/28/2004 9:49:19 PM EDT

[#14]

My dog ate 6 rhodedendrons to the roots, 2 apple trees, plus 3 sprinklers, 3 wholes cubes of butter and a calculator. ( Not all at once)

Posted: 8/28/2004 10:11:07 PM EDT

[#15]

Judging from past threads, many people have dogs who supposedly died from eating chocolate and other people feed their dog chocolate with no ill effects.

Posted: 8/28/2004 10:13:57 PM EDT

[#16]

My Dog ate my wedding band once. I got it back. She also ate a $20.00 bill and a couple of Indians tickets. I didn't get either of those back.

Posted: 8/28/2004 10:19:52 PM EDT

[#17]

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My cat would turn its nose up at scraps of NY strip.

warning: momentary hijack

my cat decided tonight he likes watermelon, especially the juice

now back to chocolate dogs

Posted: 8/28/2004 10:22:02 PM EDT

[#18]

A little bit probably won't hurt them but mine have gotten sick from it. (carelesssness)

Posted: 8/28/2004 10:34:23 PM EDT

[#19]

I heard Cocoa powder is the wrost and Dark Chocolate.

I need to know for sure.

Posted: 8/28/2004 11:24:53 PM EDT

[#20]

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My cat would turn its nose up at scraps of NY strip.

warning: momentary hijack

my cat decided tonight he likes watermelon, especially the juice

Mine goes nuts for red beans and rice.

Posted: 8/28/2004 11:31:26 PM EDT

[#21]

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Judging from past threads, many people have dogs who supposedly died from eating chocolate and other people feed their dog chocolate with no ill effects.

There are different grades of chocolate with different concentrations of the harmful alkaloid. The people feeding their dogs chocolate feed them crap mass produced milk chocolate with less than 30% cocao.

Posted: 8/28/2004 11:37:10 PM EDT

[#22]

From what i understand they can either OD from it by eating lots of it in one sitting or slowly be poisoned by it over many years.

Either way i like my dogs to much to risk it. If i give them anything sweet its the ultra suger coated crap that i eat like jolly ranchers and starburst's.

Posted: 8/28/2004 11:42:41 PM EDT

[#23]

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From what i understand they can either OD from it by eating lots of it in one sitting or slowly be poisoned by it over many years.

Either way i like my dogs to much to risk it. If i give them anything sweet its the ultra suger coated crap that i eat like jolly ranchers and starburst's.

Another thing my dog ate, a entire tub of laffy taffy in a matter of a half hour. That dam dog

Posted: 8/28/2004 11:51:48 PM EDT

[#24]

I've got a Golden Retriever / Black Lab mix that ate a brick. That was a $500 vet trip. She also has eaten a very large tree limb that was another $300 vet trip. She doesn't like warheads (or anything sour for that matter). Oh yeah and she used to love Berber carpet. She'll eat raw onion too. The dog is psycho I tell ya.

Posted: 8/28/2004 11:54:26 PM EDT

[#25]

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I've got a Golden Retriever / Black Lab mix that ate a brick. That was a $500 vet trip. She also has eaten a very large tree limb that was another $300 vet trip. She doesn't like warheads (or anything sour for that matter). Oh yeah and she used to love Berber carpet. She'll eat raw onion too. The dog is psycho I tell ya.

I had a lab, they love to eat, worst was when it was young.

Posted: 8/28/2004 11:58:33 PM EDT

[#26]

It is toxic and can cause a fatality. Last time I took the dogs to the vet there was a chart that showed how much choclate it would be fataly toxic based on weight. From what I remember, I remember commenting that my fat ass 70 lb Bulldog would have to eat a rediculous amount of chocolate to , um, to O.D, - I had been under the impression chocolate was so toxic to dogs that a hershey miniature would be like a cyanyde capsule, not the case.

Heres a link to a story about a golden that ate 6 pounds of chocolate and candy, and survived -

kabal57
I'd heard it's not good for them, but why?

link
Chocolate contains theobromine (a compound similar to caffeine) which is poisonous to dogs. A dose of 50 mg/lb can be fatal to a dog. Milk chocolate contains 45 mg of theobromine per ounce and unsweetened baking chocolate contains 400 mg per ounce. Just one ounce of unsweetened baking chocolate can kill a small breed dog. Theobromine when ingested by dogs causes release of epinephrine (adrenaline) which causes the heart to race and serious cardiac arrhythmias to develop. Signs of chocolate poisoning in dogs include vomiting, diarrhea, excessive urination, hyperactivity followed by depression and coma, seizures, and death