My dog ate chocolate?

Question

I have a small dog and it ate about 145 g of milk chocolate. What should I do? She has been throwing up.

Answer 1

Holy a** pants, Batman. That question is asked here every day!

As long as you are under 200 mg/kg of your dogs body weight (200 mg of theobromine for every kilogram) you *should* be ok. So your dog weighs about 30 kg which means he can probably handle about 6000 mg of theobromine which is a heck of a lot of milk chocolate....

Answer 2

Call the Vet or the Poison Control Center.

A chemical in chocolate can be poisonous to dogs.

The chemical, theobromine, exists in higher levels in darker chocolate. If the candy was made with white chocolate, you probably don’t have to worry much and should just keep a close eye on your dog for the next few hours to make sure he doesn’t get sick.

If the candy was made from dark chocolate, over 4 ounces, and your pup weighs less than ten pounds, it would be a good idea to get to the vet as soon as possible to head off any adverse reactions.

Why is Chocolate Lethal?
Chocolate contains theobromine. A naturally occurring stimulant found in the cocoa bean, theobromine increases urination and affects the central nervous system as well as heart muscle. While amounts vary by type of chocolate, it's the theobromine that is poisonous to dogs.

Symptoms of Chocolate Dog Ingestion and Poisoning
You can recognize that your dog has eaten a toxic dose of chocolate from the symptoms. Within the first few hours, the evidence includes vomiting, diarrhea or hyperactivity. As time passes and there's increased absorption of the toxic substance, you'll see an increase in the dog's heart rate, which can cause arrhythmia, restlessness, hyperactivity, muscle twitching, increased urination or excessive panting.

This can lead to hyperthermia, muscle tremors, seizures, coma and even death.

How Much Chocolate Is Deadly?
If a 50-pound dog eats a teaspoonful of milk chocolate, it's not going to cause serious problems. However, if that same dog gorges himself on a two-layer chocolate cake, his stomach will feel more than upset and soon it's likely he'll be vomiting or experiencing diarrhea.

To answer the question "How much is too much" is not simple. The health and age of your dog must be considered. Obviously if your dog is aged and not in top shape, his reaction to a plate of chocolate is going to be different from a young healthy dog of the same weight.

Another fact that must be considered is this: Not all chocolate is the same. Some has a small amount of theobromine; another type has a large amount and still another contains an amount that is somewhere in between. The quantity has a relationship with the weight of your dog. Small dogs can be poisoned, it is easy to understand, from smaller amounts of theobromine than large dogs.

Which chocolate is the safest, relatively speaking? White chocolate. It has the least amount of theobromine: 1 mg per ounce. Far on the other side of the spectrum is baking chocolate, which has a huge 450 mg of theobromine per ounce!

Here are a few other chocolates for you to ponder: hot chocolate, 12 mg of theobromine per ounce; milk chocolate, 60 mg/oz; and up there near baking chocolate: semi-sweet chocolate with 260 mg/oz.

Answer 3

As mentioned earlier, give your dog a tablespoon or two of Hydrogen Peroxide to help induce vomiting, even though it is already vomiting. This will ensure that the stomach contents are cleaned out entirely. You will want to contact your vet and they will instruct you on what other signs to look for. Milk chocolate is not as bad for dogs as a darker chocolate so you are lucky in that regard. Your dog will be fine.

Answer 4

Take her to the vet. Dogs are allergic to chocolate. She could dehydrate.

Answer 5

I had a small dog who LOVED chocolate. Everytime I had chocolate she would come running. She loved M&M's. It was her favorite food. She NEVER got sick from it. She was very old and died of cancer later on. She ate chocolate for years and years.

Answer 6

If your dog is throwing up the chocolate than that's good. Her system is trying to get rid of the toxins before she gets really sick. I would call your vet just to make sure and give your dog plenty of water.

Answer 7

make sure that ur dog doesn't eat anything else. jsut leave water in the water bowl. since she had the chocolate it makes her sick, because chocolate is poisn to them. if she keeps it up i would take her to the vet. to see what they say u can do.

well good luck and hopefully ur dog will feel better.

Answer 8

Could be allergic to milk (as in 'milk chocolate').
Let her puke it all up. Don't feed her at all for 24 hours, just give her water and leave it to her system to sort itself out.
Any adverse change, call the vet.

Answer 9

I have a dog and he has never ate chocolate But my friends has and i would take him to the vet if She keeps on trowing up

Answer 10

Call the vet imediatly! Yes it is good that the dog is throwing up but you should still call the vet just to make sure that nothing is going to hapen to it.
Good luck!