Link to your collections, sales and even external links. Add up to five columns. Here are my recommendations: Remove your dog from the situation to prevent more ingestion of chocolate. Estimate the quantity and type of chocolate consumed.
For example, milk chocolate vs dark chocolate and baking chocolate vs semi-sweet chocolate. If your vet is more than 15 minutes away, call them to get instructions on how to make your dog vomit at home.
Call your local vet to assist in calculating how much your dog ingested. You can also download an app to your iOS device here. How much chocolate is in each candy bar?
Half of a bar of dark chocolate 1. If you catch him in the act, taking him to the vet to induce vomiting will save Angus and the carpet from a miserable couple of days.
Our chocolate calculator can help you. Owners whose dogs have eaten 3. According to the Veterinary Poisons Information Service, out of 1, dog chocolate toxicity cases it recorded on its database, only five dogs died. Concerns have been raised, however, that many dog chocolate toxicity cases go unreported.
Dry cocoa powder contains up to 26mg of theobromine per gram so is highly toxic to dogs. If you have a dog weighing 10kg, as little as a few grams of cocoa powder could potentially result in your dog suffering seizures. Popular versions of drinking chocolate tend to have similar, or lower, levels of theobromine to milk chocolate. That means a 10kg dog would need to ingest up to g of drinking chocolate to suffer toxic effects.
While some do not show any clinical signs after eating chocolate, others develop severe signs such as seizures and irregular heart rhythms.
The toxic chemical in chocolate, theobromine, has been used in human medicine as a heart stimulant and a muscle relaxant. On top of that it dilates blood vessels and can lead to potentially lethal over-stimulation of the heart. The most typical symptoms are sickness and diarrhoea, which may contain blood, as well as restlessness and hyperactivity, rapid breathing, muscle tension, incoordination, increased heart rate and seizures.
If you discover your dog ate chocolate try to work out what type it was, how much they ate and when they ate it. Our chocolate toxicity calculator can help with this. If your dog has eaten a potentially toxic amount you should call your vet or, out of hours, your nearest Vets Now.
This is the case for all white chocolate products, including those which claim to contain cocoa solids. But bear in mind white chocolate is high in fat, buttermilk and sugar so may cause a stomach upset.
A good quality g bar of dark chocolate can contain as much as mg of theobromine. But even lower quality grades of dark chocolate are dangerous to dogs. Never resort to home remedies to treat dogs for chocolate poisoning.
This way you can work out whether the dose is toxic enough to warrant urgent veterinary treatment. Call your vet for advice or, out of hours, your nearest Vets Now. It will help your vet if you can tell them how much chocolate your dog ate, what type it was — wrappers can be very helpful — and when your dog ate it.
In short, no. Chocolate cake contains a number of ingredients that are bad for dogs — including cocoa powder and sugar. According to Dr. Nelson, the most important thing to do is act quickly — if you have reason to believe your dog consumed an dangerous amount of chocolate, you should waste no time getting the pupper care just to make sure nothing serious happens.
Nelson told Green Matters. And it takes hold quickly hours after ingestion , so time is of the essence after chocolate ingestion. If you're unsure if the amount your dog consumed is considered lethal or dangerous, Dr. Nelson explained that, per the Merck Manual of Veterinary Medicine , there are two toxic principles in chocolate: methylxanthines theobromine and caffeine; typically, there is three to 10 times more theobromine than caffeine in chocolate, but both play a role in the clinical syndrome seen in chocolate toxicosis.
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