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Mostly. It’s theobromine in chocolate. Present in most chocolate, but concentrated in baking or dark. It’s barely present at all in most medicore milk chocolat
by SlowRobotAhead 8y ago
Mostly.
It’s theobromine in chocolate. Present in most chocolate, but concentrated in baking or dark. It’s barely present at all in most medicore milk chocolates like the ones kraft makes large scale.
A average chocolate bar and and average dog won’t get poison effects from theobromine, but could have a really bad reaction to that make calories and sugars. An average dog would need multiple average chocolate bars.
Very much true for baking or dark chocolate though. A dark bar and a small dog can be a bad combination. Some dogs show a fair resistance to it but could still see liver damage.
- cglace 8y agoMy jack Russell got into a pound of tootsie rolls. Found her twitching on the ground outside. Took her to the vet and she was put on an IV and she lived to 16.
- SlowRobotAhead 8y agoScary! I wonder if it was theobromine poisoning or too much sugar? I guess tootsie rolls could be related to dark chocolate.
- logfromblammo 8y agoI once had a huge black Labrador Retriever (45 kg, and tall, not fat) that got up onto the kitchen countertop and ate almost an entire 32oz box of chocolate-almond bark. The only ill effect he apparently suffered from it was getting yelled at. Some of the other grossly inappropriate things he had ever eaten include a 60W incandescent light bulb, two toilet cleaner tank pucks, and the blue dog vomit caused by eating toilet cleaner pucks. This was not an animal with discerning tastes. Nevertheless, sweet milk chocolate doesn't have a lot of theobromine in it, and he was rather large for a lab. Didn't live to 16, but larger breeds usually don't.
- antod 8y agoI grew up with a Golden Lab, your story doesn't surprise me :)
- tjr 8y agoI have heard that for an N-pound dog, it would take approximately N ounces of dark chocolate to be fatal. That's encouraging, because such a scenario seems very unlikely, even by accident, but I do not intentionally give my dog any chocolate at all.
- ff317 8y agoCaffeine is also present in many chocolates and chocolate products, and is also more toxic to dogs than it is to humans.