Ate Chocolate - Page 1

Oops submitted to soon.  Anyways, I have a female that weighs 60lbs and she ate half a bar of one of the big bars of chocolate.  She has a litter of 9 3 week puppies.  Is it going to be safe for her to feed the puppies?  My vet doesn't do emergancy services so any help would be greatly appreciated.  We did give her some peroxide diluted in water to try and make her vomit.  What warning signs should I be looking for?

Mysti

did she vomit yet?  dont dilute it   give her another swig of peroxide   dont measure it  just a swig    like   5 tablespoons  and wait  15 minutes  if no throw up   give again    ...she will throw up  dont dilute it.....how long ago did she eat the chocolate till you gave first dose....????????

Ok   first    get some milk substitute and I hope  you have puppy chow    by a good brand not purina  handy...Have you started the pups on solids....

If not   use  1 can evaporated milk

1 can of filtered water  bottle 

1  egg  yolk    not white   white doesnt digest.

1 tbd   white karo syrup       dark karo if no white.

mix  shake good   refrigerate      cook small amount of  cream of wheat or   Malt o meal       put in big pyrex glass dish   dilute with warm mile from mixture....only start with a small amount of malt of meal     it makes a lot when you dilute it to mush......put in floor     make it runny so they can lick it and put them up to dish and keep putting them there .....first couple of times the will walk in it or not eat   ,,,use a syrnge to feed them if need to for the first time   '''

That way  you can wait a day before useing Mom ...let the chocolate get out of her system......

Also, remember that most "chocolate" bars are very diluted as far as actual chocolate so I'd do what yellow is saying for sure but may not be as serious as it could be. Unless it's the more gourmet type chocolate, that is.

Thats right   she will have diahrea and not to dispose into the pups   safe to just feed them mush  they should already be eating , that many pups   on a mom are hard on her and feeding them now gives them a start and helps her...anyway...

She will be ok and let the pups drink from  the dish and make it runny and all will be ok....dont let mom eat milk or clean up their mess this time     withdraw her food except some bread to absorb what doesnt come up ......if it doesnt come up 

Dont have any idea how long ago this ingestation happened...

One half of a bar is ok...glad she didnt find a whole package of choco chips for baking.....

Leave those for THANKSGIVING...PLEASE.....

Thanks everyone for your help.  She ate a Hersheys milk chocolate bar around 3 hrs ago.  She seems to be doing fine.  I will keep a close eye on her and will start to substitute the pups food.  I was planning on starting to wean them soon anyways.  I guess it will just be a little sooner then I planned.  Thanks again.

Mysti

Just keep her away from them for a day or so  then let them suck and eat both....she can eat what they dont eat  but not just now..    dont let her eat anything but bread for the next 24 hours and water of course.....In a day or so   soak their puppy food in goats milk. , and you can get that at Petsmart also or  at the grocery store unless you have goats.....its full of vits...

Bread and wine?  and    Chocolate and Roses        "Classy lady"

What does chocolate do to a dog?

Weird about the chocolate thing.  My grandmother had a german shepherd in the 70's and she LOVED chocolate.

Never had a problem with it and she ate a ton.  But then she only lived to be 14.

It wasn't until I had dogs myself that I realized they shouldn't have any.