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Dog ate chocolate

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Couchpotato3 · 11/03/2020 17:57

Hi All, any vets about?

Couchdog stole an Easter egg on Friday and ate the lot. We looked up online and the advice was to keep a close eye on her, which we did. She had a bit of diarrhoea (frankly not unusual for her) for 48 hours afterwards and then seemed fine.

She's hardly eaten anything today or yesterday. I managed to tempt her with some chicken yesterday and some scraps of corned beef and salmon today, but she won't touch her normal food or treats.

She seems OK in herself, a bit lethargic (but perhaps just no energy because she hasn't eaten). She doesn't feel hot, not panting, not in any pain that I can tell. I've felt all over her tummy and there are no sore spots. She went out for a walk this morning, and is drinking and peeing OK. Her breathing is fine, and her nose is cold and wet. Nothing else seems out of the ordinary. She's still barking at the postman etc.

If she doesn't start eating by tomorrow, I'm going to book her in at the vet, but my question is, do you think this could be related to the chocolate or is it likely to be something else now? She ate about 120g of darkish chocolate (about 50% cocoa solids) and a similar amount of white chocolate. She weighs 28kg, aged nearly 4 and otherwise fit and healthy.

Thank you!

OP posts:
randomsabreuse · 14/03/2020 06:53

Toxicity generally depends on the chocolate - cadbury's or KitKat have very little actual chocolate in them and will likely only cause toxicity in small/susceptible dogs.

Fancier dark chocolate has got more common and has much more effect.

White chocolate is basically irrelevant unless it contains Xylitol or a sweetener rather than sugar (also very bad for dogs - worse than theobromine).

Wrapping might also be causing an obstruction...

So definitely vet - chocolate poisoning usually causes a very fast heart rate amon g other things.

Veterinari · 14/03/2020 07:13

cadbury's or KitKat have very little actual chocolate in them and will likely only cause toxicity in small/susceptible dogs.

There are many other reasons why routinely feeding your dog kitkats etc is ill-advised. It's not simply a toxicity issue but also nutritional, dental, obesity etc

slipperywhensparticus · 14/03/2020 07:20

I wonder how the ops dog is? Ours are chocolate but vomited the entire amount back up and then some she was fortunate to be fine

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