Dog with a sweet tooth

[linedancer16]

Got in tonight to find that the dog had been upstairs to the Christmas presents and taken a box of Thorntons toffee from a table, taken it downstairs, opened all the packaging and eaten it all!! Rang the vets to check if it should be ok and he says yes it might have diarrohea for a couple of days but thats all. Still it could have been worse - there were two boxes but it must have had enough after one! I shall have to buy another present now!

[NOX]

No-one suggested anyone feeds their dogs chocolate for goodness sakes- I was just commenting that anyone who so much as hints that they have ever had a dog whose eaten chocolate ( whether intentional or accidental) gets castigated by the 'Oh I'm such a better dog owner than you' brigade when it was clearly either an accident or it was in the days of yore before chocolate toxicity was well known amongst dog owners, and the reference to alcohol was meant to underline what the majority of people who still choose to feed the odd bit of chocolate to their dogs feel- in small quantities a little bit of milk chocolate is unlikely to hurt most dogs- hence they are perpared to take the risk. I'm not so I don't let my dogs have chocolate at all.

[notasyoungasiwas]

Back in the 70's and 80's I used to buy my dog Chappie a milky bar every now and again with no ill effects, but back then we didn't know the danger of giving dogs chocolate. I'd never do it nowadays though.

[linedancer16]

Glad to know other dogs are expert at getting into things they shouldn't! Yes, I wish I'd seen him chewing it- usually in those boxes the pieces are all stuck together in one big lump. He's fine today-no after effects except the one the vet predicted!

[islasmum]

I had a part labrador, part ? in the 80's and not only was she an escape artist, she also managed to nick a box of liquer choclates, and eat 75% of them one christmas - fortunately she vomited copiously that night, maybe the alcohol didn't agree with her! She was very quiet for the next day or two, then back to her usual tricks.

[wolf63]

Chocolate (or the relevant chemical) is not poisonous to all dogs. The amount eaten and the size of the dog are also relevant factors.

We fed our dog chocolate - but that was 25 years ago.

It really is a risk not worth taking. But dogs, being dogs means that they may 'obtain' chocolate from somewhere. :-)