Dogs and chocolate

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A friend just posted on f/b her dog had eaten a large box of chocolates, i advised her to get vet advice asap as i always thought it was toxic to dogs
Am i wrong?, as her reply was thats said dog eats so much of it she is used to it.
Not sure if iv given wrong advice or she is a bit to blase(sp) about her dogs health.
 
Code once at a full bar of Galaxy cookie crumble (the large bars!) - I was not too impressed. He lived to tell the tale and wasn't even sick. Wouldn't make a habit of allowing them to eat it though.....

Then again, I also had a pony that ate a whole load of dry sugarbeet and never colicked. So maybe I just own bizarre animals.

Although I also dread to think about the weight of her poor dog if it makes a habit of eating chocolate :o
 
Do a quick search for Vizslaks posts from a couple of weeks ago when she nearly lost her dogs after they ate chocolate, and Luc07 (I think) has a friend who at the moment has 2 pugs at the vets seriously ill after eating chocolate. You gave your friend the right advice, I hope she takes it.
 
Pugs are now out of 24 hour care - and the vets have said it was very lucky she found them so quickly as the weaker one of the 2 could well have died.

Once they had recovered, friends dog walker told her that one of her clients dogs had died last year from eating a bar of galaxy - that was a pointer.

And it only needs to be a small amount of choc - look at the pug post for the quantiies but it works that a 10kg dog could be killed by "just" eating something the size of a starbar
 
Don't talk to me about dogs and chocolate. I have Labradors. They're piglets. They have eaten all sorts of chocolate over the years (and they're now 12 and nearly 11). They're best haul was two of those large boxes of Thorntons Continentals one Christmas. They have iron bellies, and although I know it's not good for them and I certainly don't encourage them to eat it, when they do - and I know they will do so again - I don't worry but just keep an eye on them. They've eaten some toe-curlingly vile things over the years ...... Labs are walking stomachs!
 
mytwofriends said:
Don't talk to me about dogs and chocolate. I have Labradors. They're piglets. They have eaten all sorts of chocolate over the years (and they're now 12 and nearly 11). They're best haul was two of those large boxes of Thorntons Continentals one Christmas. They have iron bellies, and although I know it's not good for them and I certainly don't encourage them to eat it, when they do - and I know they will do so again - I don't worry but just keep an eye on them. They've eaten some toe-curlingly vile things over the years ...... Labs are walking stomachs!
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Stupid attitude to have....it can and will kill. Its nothing to do with iron bellies, it poisons them. I would not be sat there so blase saying they will eat it again. You should be very very careful as should all dog owners that they never have access to it.
 
Vizslak said:
Stupid attitude to have....it can and will kill. Its nothing to do with iron bellies, it poisons them. I would not be sat there so blase saying they will eat it again. You should be very very careful as should all dog owners that they never have access to it.
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Thanks for that. My dogs are fit, slim, active and belie their advanced ages. I am most certainly not stupid nor blase and my vet has been kept aware of what they've eaten over the years. I absolutely don't feed them chocolate on purpose, neither do I condone it. I know my dogs.
 
Fine good for you...I hope we dont see a post whinging that your dogs in the vets having seizures for four days like mine was then.
 
mytwofriends, I really hope you never have to go through the worrying time Vizzy and others have when their dogs eat chocolate, but please don't be so lighthearted about it. It can have fatal consequences. Your post reminds me a little of someone I know who boasted that their grossly overweight pony had never had laminitis and reached its teens so didn't need to lose weight. I am sure you can guess what happened the following summer.:mad:
 
mytwofriends I apologise for my rather blunt post this morning, I was not in the best of moods. My point was not whether or not you have fit healthy dogs, my concern is that someone else reading your post would get the wrong impression of the seriousness of a dog eating chocolate. Rest assured that if I had waited and kept an eye on my dogs when I found they had eaten chocolate (either because I held your attitude or simply didnt know the harm it can do) I would certainly have lost one of them...maybe two. The dogs chances of survival reduce dramatically if you wait for symptoms to show before seeking veterinary attention. I would not want someone to read this post and read your reply and think the rest of us were making a fuss about nothing. We are not it is serious, it does kill and if a quantity of chocolate has been consumed by a dog, owners should not wait for symptoms to show before getting them to a vet.
 
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