What are symptoms when dogs eat chocolate?

My dog ate a 3.52 oz. dark chocolate bar tonight. I have heard that chocolate acts like a poison to dogs. How is the animal likely to react to 3.52 oz. of chocolate?

    What are symptoms when dogs eat chocolate?

    My dog ate a 3.52 oz. dark chocolate bar tonight. I have heard that chocolate acts like a poison to dogs. How is the animal likely to react to 3.52 oz. of chocolate?...
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    • What are symptoms when dogs eat chocolate?

      What are symptoms when dogs eat chocolate? General Dog Discussions
      My dog ate a 3.52 oz. dark chocolate bar tonight. I have heard that chocolate acts like a poison to dogs. How is the animal likely to react to 3.52 oz. of chocolate?

      What are symptoms when dogs eat chocolate?

      What are symptoms when dogs eat chocolate? General Dog Discussions
    • Symptoms of Chocolate Dog Ingestion and PoisoningYou 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. You might try using this to remember these chocolates from least to most toxic: What Happy Moose Says BAA? Or: White-Hot-Milk-Semi-Baked. If you have a better way to remember, contact us!Knowing which chocolate is the most toxic is important, but leaves one wondering how much must be eaten to poison a dog. The list in this box should be helpful. Maybe you can clip it and post it on your refrigerator? White chocolate: 200 ounces per pound of body weight. It takes 250 pounds of white chocolate to cause signs of poisoning in a 20-pound dog, 125 pounds for a 10-pound dog. Milk chocolate: 1 ounce per pound of body weight. Approximately one pound of milk chocolate is poisonous to a 20-pound dog; one-half pound for a 10-pound dog. The average chocolate bar contains 2 to 3 ounces of milk chocolate. It would take 2-3 candy bars to poison a 10 pound dog. Semi-sweet chocolate has a similar toxic level. Sweet cocoa: 0.3 ounces per pound of body weight. One-third of a pound of sweet cocoa is toxic to a 20-pound dog; 1/6 pound for a 10-pound dog. Baking chocolate: 0.1 ounce per pound body weight. Two one-ounce squares of bakers' chocolate is toxic to a 20-pound dog; one ounce for a 10-pound dog.

    • I know I'm going to get flack on this one...but I know "they" say that chocolate is bad for a dog...but my poodle not only eats (small amounts ) of chocolate, but she loves it.She even drinks small amounts of lattes too. 13 years old and going strong.

    • That would depend on the size of your dog. Kind of like alcohol and people. A 95lb woman could have alcohol poisoning while a 225lb man could consume the same amount of alcohol and just be drunk.Your dog needs to see the vet to try and get that chocolate out to minimize toxicity.

    • My dog ate some chocolate off an Oreo and started throwing up a lot. There's something in chocolate that can cause cardiac problems in dogs that doesnt affect humans. Just watch your dog for any changes because if it's caused him/her to be violently ill you may need to take the dog to the vet.

    • i have a huge labrador and one time he ate a whole jar of chocolate fudge... and was fine. it depends on the size of your dog but i would definitely call the vet. my dog has also eaten a box of chocolate donuts and thrown up all over, so call your vet just in case.

    • Im not sure, but I have mixed feeling on chocolate and dogs. Before we knew about chocolate being toxic, my dog ate chocolate icecream and never had any reactions.My Gran's dog had also ate chocolate bars and was not effected.So they say its bad, I wont feed it- but I dont really know if its really true...