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My gf (Who is a dog-person) tells me that if a dog ingests chocolate, it will die. I don't have the heart to tell her that her dog ate a HUGE hershey kiss at christmas, with no side effects other than a sugar-high...

Sorry, no data. I doubt chocolate makes dogs chemically want to climb under pool covers...

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Its bakers chocolate that will harm a dog, candies will not harm them unless they eat a HUGE amount, which would probably make them puke first.

Dear Yahoo!:
Why is chocolate poisonous to dogs but not to humans?
John
Chicago, Illinois

Dear John:
We started with a Yahoo! search by typing in the three key words -- dog, chocolate, and poison. After scanning the results, we clicked on an article titled, "Household Items That Can Poison Dogs."
The article explains that chocolate contains theobromine, an alkaloid that dogs can't metabolize quickly. If a dog ingests a large amount of chocolate, the theobromine can build up and reach a toxic level of concentration, leading to cardiac arrest. Different types of chocolate are more harmful than others, and the effects will vary, depending upon the size and weight of the dog. However, it is potentially lethal.

If you know your dog has ingested chocolate (signs of chocolate poisoning include vomiting, diarrhea, excessive urination, a quick heart rate, and rapid breathing) take him to a vet immediately.

The rest of the article reviews some of the other household items that can cause harm to your fuzzy friend. For instance, did you know common plants such as azaleas, rhododendron, and foxglove can all cause heart failure if ingested?

Some other articles dog owners should check out include "Common Household Items Hazardous to Your Dog " from Pet Warehouse, and "Chocolate Poisoning in Dogs," by veterinarian Kevin Fitzgerald.

But why isn't theobromine poisonous to humans? To answer that question, we tried a Yahoo! search on "theobromine," which led us to an article from About.com. There, we learned that humans can break down and excrete theobromine much more efficiently than dogs, rendering it effectively harmless.

Just remember: Chocolate's a tasty treat for humans, but it can be fatal to our four-legged friends

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But why chocolate?  Bakers or otherwise.

And speaking of which, how come American chocolade tastes like wet sawdust rolled in shit, whereas Swiss, Belgian and German chocolade cause a "high" similar to cannabis, except for the whooping and coughing?

you will hear all kinds of bull about chocolate candy harming dogs it is just simply untrue, it has to be bakers chocolate

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Now all we need to do is find out how to make chocolate cannabis! [smoke] [thinking] [party]

Later,

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The amount of chocolate needed to harm a dog varies with the size of the dog. A few ounces for a small dog and over a pound for large dogs.



[b]That is just flat wrong[/b] any type of chocolate can harm/kill a dog. Bakers chocolate is more dangerous because it is more concentrated/stronger than milk chocolate. A dog would have to eat about twice as much milk chocolate as baker chocolate to get the same effect but both will kill.

A few ounces for a small dog

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The deal's this: chocolade will also kill a human when eaten in sufficient amounts, only we have a reflex to gag on it when a certain level is reached, which dogs don't have. They'd eat all they could find and pretty much OD on the drugs contained in chocolade.
And speaking of which, how come American chocolade tastes like wet sawdust rolled in shit, whereas Swiss, Belgian and German chocolade cause a "high" similar to cannabis, except for the whooping and coughing?

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Back about a dozen years ago I took my dog, a Brittnay, hiking in the mountians near wear I live. I brought along some dehydrated food and had planned to make it to a place called "Sunset Point" overlooking the Hudson River to setup camp for the night but took longer to get there than I planned so I pitched my tent and went looking for the stream I saw on the map as I was alomst out of the water needed to make dinner. As it was late I didn't have much time to search and as it happens the stream shown on the map was dry.

So I did not have enough water for dinner. In my pack a had a pound bag of M&M's and me and my dog proceeded to eat about half of it before going to bed.

From that moment on if I so much as touched an M&M my dog would begin to drool! She LOVED them!

It's more than two years since I had to put her down and it still hurts!

Later,