How Much Chocolate Is Too Much? - Page 1

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2007/10/pets/chocolate-chart-interactive.html

I guess my dogs were right, 2 Dibs at bedtime won't kill them

Madigan

just don't do it ......... why give a dog chocolate in the first place. 

They eat MEAT 

Tigermouse, sometimes the dogs don't wait for permission!

(Remembers the time the gal in my sig ate a whole box of VERY EXPENSIVE Roger's Victorian Creams, with absolutely no ill effects, except for her owner being PO'd at her...)

Long ago there was a treat introduced.It was chocolate drops.I share chocolate and icecream with my dogs on occasion...Nothing wrong with it.But I know my dogs very well and I watch their feces.(poop)

You can't go strictly by these charts, because different chocolate products have differing amounts of theobromine in them, which is what makes chocolate toxic to dogs.  It's not worth risking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theobromine_poisoning

  Rainhaus, you can watch your dogs feces all you want, but that won't tell you if your dogs are experiencing theobromine poisoning.  And the old 'chocolate drops' treats didn't have any actual chocolate in them--they were flavored with carob.

Years ago, when I first moved down here and was managing a vet clinic, and moonlighting at the emergancy clinic, we had a 10lb Yorkie come in who had eaten a 1lb bag of M&M's.  It was the holiday season, and they were laying out, however, in a sealed bag(hadn't been opened yet.)

Owners rushed the dog in to the vet.....nothing wrong with the dog, other than a sugar/caffeine high and the runs the next day.

Chocolate, such as a candy bar, is not the problem....it is the baker's chocolate that is the problem.

Also, you have to watch out for the "sugar free" stuff----the ingredients in that is also used as a laxative, so, dogs and humans can often times get the runs....

I used to take my dogs out with me to Dairy Queen a couple of times a week, and they always got an ice cream sunday!

But, overall, It isn't a good idea to use it as a treat

Hexe, I watch my dogs very closely more than their feces.

Why even take any chances?     To me it's not worth it, I'll give mine the raw carrots they love. 

Mine have chewed on some raw potatoes skin on.When I was a kid I loved raw potatoes and I never got a belly ache..I as well ate the seeds of a watermelon...no roots grew..haha.I swallowed plenty of gum as well...no problem.My first gsd actually loved chewing gum and just chewed.I dont want to promote anyone feeding their dogs chocolate.To each their own.Carrots are great..sweet and loaded with Vit A.An olive or two or raw onion...shrooms..garlic is good as well.But if you are to give your dog chocolate..Give them real chocolate.

The only thing Onyx would defy me on in the house was the issue of chocolate. He would do ANYTHING for a box of See's. One time he got up on my desk to reach a high shelf and steal a brand new 2 lb. box, still in its paper wrapping, placed there in hopes he wouldn't be able to reach it. WRONG. He ate the whole 2 lbs.and half the wrappers, part of the box in the 30 min. it took me to feed the dogs outside.

He never even got the runs.

SS