There is not a day that goes by without at least one person arriving at my blog through a search for dogs eating chocolate (though the actual search phrase varies, and is often interesting like the one who said “how long do I have to wait until my dog dies from eating chocolate”). Tonight, in the last 2 hours, I’ve had five people visit in search of the answer to the dogs death by chocolate question.
While I did have folks assure me that chocolate is toxic to dogs, I stand by my belief that it’s a myth. None of my dogs has ever died from chocolate and believe me, they’ve eaten a LOT of chocolate. I wouldn’t stick the cute little orange pumpkin full of candy on the floor in place of the dog food or anything like that but I’m not going to lose any sleep over Jake grabbing a snoutful before I can stop him.
Now if anyone stumbles on some study that shows how many dogs day in the aftermath of Halloween chocolate madness, then I’d consider changing my mind.
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http://www.apogeecomgrp.com/drkevin/chocolate.html
Google has 1,440,000 links, but I’m thinking you don’t want them all.
That being said, I once had a dog eat a Costco-size bag (2 lbs? 3?) of M&Ms. He threw most of it up, and had a serious case of the trots, but apparently no other serious effects. Good thing, as he was a $50,000 working dog & the boss would not have been pleased.
Chocolate is toxic for dogs, but they need to ingest a LOT of it to die from it. I know, because our dog ate an entire package of thin mints once and I called the vet, frantically.
That’s the very problem Colleen. You’d think if chocolate was toxic, then eating a box of thin mints would be particularly bad. But your pup didn’t die. You got freaked out for no good reason. Well except of course that you probably wanted to eat those thin mints yourself. I prefer tagalongs (peanut butter patties) myself. Heh.
Skeeter, I don’t want links. I know how to use a search engine silly. I want one link to one study that tells me that X number of dogs die every year from eating chocolate. (I’d also need a number of dogs who ate chocolate that year to contrast the dead dogs with. If there isn’t such a study, you should write a grant proposal and make some money figuring this stuff out. Probably pays better than dogs and termites.)