dogs and chocolate [Archive]

binka_nugget

05-26-2003, 06:39 PM

I'm paranoid...I made a rule that there is to be NO chocolate in the house. And if my bro or sister really need chocolate, they have to eat it outside. Being a smaller dog, less would kill him ...I think? Even though we usually only eat milk chocolate, I just don't wanna take chances. Plus, I don't even like chocolate. I'm a strawberry person lol.

wolfsoul

05-26-2003, 11:12 PM

Oreos don't actually contain real chocolate, only chocolate flavouring, so they aren't dangerous.

My dog Leather ate an ENTIRE McCain chocolate cake, we didn't even get a bite, but it was a cake, and cakes don't contain real chocolate either, so she didn't even get sick..

I've given Timber small pieces of white chocolate, and I've rubbed real chocolate on my hand so it tastes and smells like it, but it's not there...

I don't make it a habit though, if they get a taste for it, they'll like it forever. I've read some interesting reports on the internet that say dogs generally don't even like that taste of chocolate once they are old enough to decide what they do or do not like. It's usually when they are puppies that they develop a liking for it and never stop liking it :)

Nomilynn

05-27-2003, 03:29 AM

Once at Christmas time (many many years ago), our two dogs and my aunt's dogs got under the Christmas tree and found any and all the boxes of Chocolate. They were all wrapped, and were so far under the tree they were touching the trunk, but the dogs dug until they found them all. They ate, between the four of them, two or three big boxes of Turtles candy and a bucket of mini turtles. They didn't get in trouble.. we should have picked up the candy :o but we thought it was safe. Thankfully, none of them got sick. They did poop tin foil wrappers for a couple days though :p

halter91

05-27-2003, 08:00 AM

Funny, My roomates girlfreind made me a birthday cake on Thursday, and needless to say..i wasn't paying attention and went into the kitchen and there was a piece missing. And Max didn't even sing happy birthday to me.:(

SeamusK

05-27-2003, 10:36 AM

My dog eats chocolat, Not alot, But when so accidently. It doesnt hurt a dog unless its Cooking Chocolat, And even if your dog does eat Cooking Chocolat, It has to be alot for him to be sick.

lovemyshiba

05-27-2003, 01:55 PM

No way!!!
I realize that a little won't harm them probably, but why take the chance???

Cincy'sMom

05-27-2003, 04:16 PM

Our dogs don't iintenionally get chocolate however....this weekend we had a box of doughnuts sitting in the middle of the dining room table (it has 8 in it) Sometime between 1 am and 6 am an unkown number of dogs ate all the doughnuts!!! ( 2 were chocolate) No one got sick, although there was some bad gas!!!

Cinder & Smoke

05-27-2003, 04:36 PM

Originally posted by Cincy'sMom
... Sometime between 1 am and 6 am an unkown number of dogs ate all the doughnuts!!! ( 2 were chocolate)
No one got sick,
although there was some bad gas!!!

Yeah... tell us bout dat...

"...although there was some bad gas!!!"

Seemz *WE* have dat problem ebery tyme Dad goez to a Sunday Fiur Meetin...

We kan alluz tell when he getz hiz mitts round a kupla
custard-filled doughnutz wiffa gooey choklit topz... :rolleyes:

OMG! **BAD GAS** :eek: all afturnoon :mad:.
He be *pootin* & *tootin* Sooo Bad it makez our poor lil dawggie eyes waddur!

:p :D

binka_nugget

05-27-2003, 05:55 PM

Originally posted by SeamusK
My dog eats chocolat, Not alot, But when so accidently. It doesnt hurt a dog unless its Cooking Chocolat, And even if your dog does eat Cooking Chocolat, It has to be alot for him to be sick.

I think that it's not JUST cooking chocolate that can kill your dog. I think milk chocolate can but it would take alot more than cooking chocolate because it is loaded with other stuff too. As for cooking chocolate, it doesn't take alot. It really depends on your dog. Anyways..why feed your dog extra sugar? I definately do not want a hyper kai.. :eek:

slleipnir

05-27-2003, 08:22 PM

My grandmother gives her dog chocolates as treats and shes only a small poodle mix..I have NO idea why she does, but the dog is totally fine with it..like shes old now and she's been getting it for who knows how long..

gkristian

05-28-2003, 03:37 AM

Foxy has never eaten chocolate

hulabird

05-28-2003, 07:40 PM

I read on a web site that the caffeine in chocolate is the ingredient that can harm and even kill a dog, and it recommended strongly that choclate never be given to a dog. They cannot handle the caffeine.

binka_nugget

05-28-2003, 11:51 PM

I heard that too..but then I read something about...umm I don't how to spell it lol it's "TH..." something something something lol...I really have to watch what I give Kai because I feed him alot of fresh food...I say fresh instead of human...because fruits, veggies, meat aren't restricted to humans... I don't give him junk food though. Just the good stuff, apples, a bit of my sandwich lol, lettuce, orange, banana...that kinda stuff...

Tonya

05-29-2003, 01:52 AM

I don't feed my dogs chocolate because of all the bad things I read about it. But, on the same line, growing up we were totally uneducated about dogs and feeding. We always fed our family dogs everything from chocolate to chicken bones and they all survived.

Mich

06-10-2003, 02:18 PM

We used to own a Deli for a number of years, and this lady came in every afternoon and bought 2 Freddo's. I did not take any notice, until one day she came in upset. She was the owner of a little Silkie and a Collie. The Silkie died and the Collie was in a serious condition at the vets. She told me that the Vet said it was caused through the massive amounts of chocolate she fed them.
I always felt bad for selling her those Freddo's every day for years.

Orlando Bloom's Gal

06-19-2003, 09:03 AM

Kiki easts chocolate. It never harmed him. I think that whoever had him bore I got him, must have feed him junk food. Kiki will eat anything. He's even had Sour Ptch kids before! And, just the other night, my mom got up to see why my sis had called her, an she forgot that she had left a plate of cookies on the table(choco, vanilla, and choco cip). Kiki had gone in, ate half a choco chip, and a while vanilla one. He's eaten brownies, chocolate chips. He likes grapes(I know they say they can harm them, so he doesn't get them often). I'll put a pic of him as an attachment so you can see him.

Orlando Bloom's Gal

06-19-2003, 09:04 AM

Whoops. Sorry, I meant eats, not easts

Mich

06-19-2003, 09:21 AM

Thank you for the photo........what a little cutie! What a bundle of love! Regards Mich.

Orlando Bloom's Gal

06-19-2003, 09:24 AM

He is a great little dog, most of the time.

Foam

06-19-2003, 04:57 PM

I'm sure they have, though not alot. :)

puppygrrl4eva7

06-20-2003, 04:35 PM

There's this little kid I babysit, well once for christmas he got his name spelled out in big choclate letters ALEX well they have a cute little hyper dog, Riley, well they wern't watching the dog and it ate the A, E and half of the L. Well the family had to ush the dog to the vet and have his stomach pumped!:eek: I felt so bad for the pup

janiceruth

06-20-2003, 05:00 PM

my ignorance, and I never let my dogs have chocolate, but is it really that lethal? What organ does it hit in a dog?

:)

Where are the instruction on putting an image into your text?
I would appreciate the help..

Mich

06-22-2003, 05:37 PM

Don't feel so bad, as I was a woman with a family and I didn't know the lady was buying the choc for the dog.......I know if you had the knowledge,you would have done something....please don't feel bad.

Airedalekisses

06-22-2003, 05:46 PM

I'm deathly allergic to chocolate-I know, what an awful allergy!! there was never any chocolate in the house so the beasties didn't have access, they did, however, love carob ice cream.Gave them a bit of wind, though! whew!!!!

CamCamPup33

06-22-2003, 05:54 PM

yes i know some of you dont really care.. but this is for the people who dont know. here is the website to go to on why choclate is so deadly to dogs.. i was just researching this and this is what i found:
http://www.netpets.com/dogs/reference/food/chocolates.html

Amber :D

Mich

06-22-2003, 06:20 PM

So is my daughter, so same as you.......none in the house, I didn't even have Carob........

Mich

06-22-2003, 06:24 PM

Thank you so much for you interest, and sharing this web site. I have taken the time to send the page to myself. Thank you once again.

janiceruth

06-22-2003, 11:47 PM

That was a good article/story about chocolate, at least now I understand what it does to a dog.
Now to keep my dogs away from my coffee cup.:)

Toller 42

07-29-2004, 07:53 PM

Jess did once, we were eating supper in the kitchen and it was around Christmas so she decided to open a present and found a whole bx of chocolates, she ate all of them except one! surprisingly she didn't get sick! we didn't think she'd do that because we had her for 8 years and she never did anything like that before.

janiceruth

07-29-2004, 09:40 PM

You were very lucky...:rolleyes:

CorgiLuvr

07-29-2004, 11:30 PM

Our lab died a couple of years ago because someone left the pantry open and he only got a lick or two of Hershey's pure unsweetened baking chocolate. There was no way he could have gotten a lot because all he did was poke holes in the box and there was only a few teaspoons left, anyways. He was 110 pounds, so yes, chocolate is very dangerous and I would not even ever take the chance of feeding any kind of chocolate to my dog. Here's a good tip that I learned: If your dog ingests anything you don't think they should, such as large amounts of chocolate, give the dog about 1 tablespoon of 3% hydrogen peroxide and 1 teaspoon of salt per 10 pounds of bodyweight. If it's a chemical, always call poison control first because some chemicals can severely burn the esophagus on the way back up. This is a safe way and won't cause stomach ulcers like other methods will, and it's quick and simple. It works within 5-10 minutes at the most, some dogs vomit immediatly. I've used it quite a few times. One time my corgi ate a whole carton of chocolate chip cookies and once he ate a whole bag of bubble gum. It was one of those jumbo bags from Sam's with 100 pieces in it. I was really looking foward to that bubble gum, too.:(

Twisterdog

08-01-2004, 11:07 PM

My old basset, Sadie, once at all the chocolate out of one of those giant heart-shaped boxes of Valentine's candy. She was perfectly fine, she had a cast-iron stomach ... but I would not recommend it!

chrissycat21

08-02-2004, 01:16 PM

Snowy has gotten so much chocolate, all on accident.

Once she ate this whole bag of these fancy imported chocolates that were a gift from my cousin. That was when she was a little puppy, we were so worried!

She has eaten chocolate once in a while, like a crum or two, but eating the whole bag was her worst time yet.

I heard that the only like deathly chocolate for them is baking chocolate.

-Chrissy

Tonya

08-03-2004, 08:02 AM

I don't feed my dogs chocolate,but my childhood dog, Christy grew up on tons of table scraps and chocolate. She hardly ever ate dog food. She lived to be approx 17, which is pretty good for a wolf-malmute mix.

Funny story though. One time, Mike didn't know any better and gave Dusty chocolate chip icecream. Dusty literally ate all the ice cream and left the chocolate in the bowl. You know how small those little square flakes of chocolate are in chocolate chip ice cream...How in the heck did he manage to do that?!

LorraineO

08-05-2004, 11:39 AM

chocolate is indeed bad for dogs,, but it takes alot of it to really have any affect..... We dont have much chocolate in the house andwhen we do,, it gets eaten pretty fast,,, lol,, I have two teen aged boys,,, you do the math!!!!

LorraineO

08-05-2004, 11:40 AM

Originally posted by CorgiLuvr
Our lab died a couple of years ago because someone left the pantry open and he only got a lick or two of Hershey's pure unsweetened baking chocolate. There was no way he could have gotten a lot because all he did was poke holes in the box and there was only a few teaspoons left, anyways. He was 110 pounds, so yes, chocolate is very dangerous and I would not even ever take the chance of feeding any kind of chocolate to my dog. Here's a good tip that I learned: If your dog ingests anything you don't think they should, such as large amounts of chocolate, give the dog about 1 tablespoon of 3% hydrogen peroxide and 1 teaspoon of salt per 10 pounds of bodyweight. If it's a chemical, always call poison control first because some chemicals can severely burn the esophagus on the way back up. This is a safe way and won't cause stomach ulcers like other methods will, and it's quick and simple. It works within 5-10 minutes at the most, some dogs vomit immediatly. I've used it quite a few times. One time my corgi ate a whole carton of chocolate chip cookies and once he ate a whole bag of bubble gum. It was one of those jumbo bags from Sam's with 100 pieces in it. I was really looking foward to that bubble gum, too.:(

wow,, are you positive it was the chocolate that did it?? My vet was telling me it takes alot of chocolate to hurt a dog (Depending on the animals weight that is),,,,
I am sorry for your loss...... HUGS!!

Jods

08-22-2004, 07:57 PM

I don'r purposly give my dogs chocolate but like other people they have stolen it especially around christmas and anyways no one has ever gotten sick from it... I always hear its sooo bad for them but this year mercedes got into a lot and nothing happend thank god!!! but it's wierd has anyone ever heard of a dog getting ill from chocolate?

gabbiegirl

09-15-2004, 11:33 AM

My grandfather used to give chocolate to his dogs everyday. The poodle who lived to a ripe old age was given a Peppermint Pattie every morning. His next dog, a border collie got a Reese's peanut butter cup everyday. My grandfather has since past away, but I believe that my uncle who "inherited" the border collie, is still giving him the PB cup everyday.