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Originally Posted by yster
The animal poisons earlier reminded me of this one; grapes (and by natural extension raisins) are poisonous to dogs. My parents' dog loves grapes, oops.
So are "Chocolate, cocoa, onions and macadamia nuts," if Snopes is to be believed.
http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/raisins.asp |
Last Easter my chihuahua ate a bunch of chocolate my fiancee had left within the dog's reach. I freaked when I found all the empty wrappers and called 2-3 vets emergency #'s. All of them pretty much laughed at me and said that milk chocolate wasn't as serious as dark chocolate, because of the dilution. I was told to watch her and if che got sick to take her in.
All that happened was she had what appeared to be chocolate covered poo the next few days.
Later, I asked a friend I had graduated high school with, who is a vet and he said some dogs are more immune to the effects, Chihuahuas are an example because they come from Central and South America and probably had built up a resistance.
BUT, the poison stays in their system for the rest of their lives so the more they eat, eventually it will kill them. For a normal chihuahua to die from chocolate according to him, the dog would have to eat it's weight in Hershey's milk chocolate bars, in their lifetime, for a normal German Shepard it could only take 1-2 Hershey bars, in a lifetime.
Needles to say Dinky will never be eating anymore chocolate.