Snack pack pudding? Attn Vets

[Tarkus70]

Anyone know if this is real chocolate?

[Fat Man]

INGREDIENTS:
Non-fat milk, water, sugar, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, modified corn starch, cocoa (processed with alkali), less than 2% of: salt, sodium stearoyl lactylate, artificial flavors.

From here. (http://www.dietfacts.com/html/items/5005.htm)

[Tarkus70]

Should I be worried if my dog ate some of one? Thanks F/M

[Tarkus70]

Someone help me out here I'm at work and two hours away.

[dc]

I'm guessing it's okay, changed your title anyway.

[coyoteseven]

Chocolate (cocoa) is not good for dogs, but your dog will probably be OK... don't be surprised if you come home to chocolate barf on the carpeting.

[2fishy]

My dog (when I was a kid!) ate the whole box of chocolate covered turtles along with box and Christmas wrapping paper that was for my teacher in the 5th grade. She never went to a vet. She lived until I was 23. She was fine. I think, but could be wrong, that it is mostly dark chocolate that is really, really bad for them. If nothing else it's a free bump to the top.

[chrisstie]

Chocolate in any LARGE dose is poisonous even to us. As long as you dont see obvious signs of your dog being sick or doing things out of the ordinary (puking, lack of apetite, diahrrea etc) i think it should be fine

im not a vet, but thats just my own experience

[marie]

My little shih tzu ate a giant hersheys kiss ( those things are huge :eek1: ) and then she threw it all up a few hours later.

that was 5 yrs ago and now she is 14yrs old and still going strong

[Vitaly]

I have friends whose dogs got into some chocolate but were never really ill. However, they were large dogs and it was milk chocolate.

Do a search for "Theobromine Toxicity" when you have a chance. Here are two well written and accessable sites that address the matter:

"Chocolate Poisoning in Dogs"
by Kevin Fitzgerald, Ph.D., D.V.M.
http://www.apogeecomgrp.com/drkevin/chocolate.html

"Chocolate Toxicity"
by Jennifer Iannaccone
http://www.addl.purdue.edu/newsletters/2000/spring/choc.shtml

If your dog does begin to show signs of distress call the Animal Poison Control Center [1-888-426-4435]...which happens to be down the street from me at the University of Illinois :-)

[Aliie]

How's your doggie doing to day Tarkus?
Next time give him vanilla to counteract it! :lol: j/k

[Tarkus70]

Thank You everyone Bentley s doing fine. It is tough being two hours away and getting a phone call saying your dog ate something that could kill him. He is fine came in to the bedroom (early) to wake me up and did not seem like there was anything wrong. THANK YOU ALL it helps being away from home and having a place to ask questions and get answers.



Scott

[Racso]

When I worked at a vet office, we had a chart of leathal doses of chocolate vs dog weight. I'm trying to find something similar but dogs would have to eat a rediculous amount of milk chocolate for it to be leathal, a heafty amount of dark chocolate. Basically, most cases of dogs that eat those types of chocolate shouldn't cause a problem. Many times the animals' stomack will stop the animal from eating too much. It DOES happen though, but generally the animal will stop for one reason or another in small dogs. In large dogs, most people don't have enough chocolate for the animal to get to in order for it to eat too much. And I'm talking leathal or vet required instances here. Dogs can and will get sick from eating chocolate, but the leathal amounts are generally too high for milk and dark chocolate.

Its baking chocolate and chocolate powder thats an issue. Just make sure those are always in places your dog cannot reach, nor small children as they tend to leave things around for the dog to get to.

White chocolate is gennerally considered safe for dogs. I believe it is 10 to 15 times the dogs weight in white chocolate for problamatic SIGNS to appear. So if your dog can eat 10 to 15 times its own weight, I think you'd have other things to worry about than chocolate poisoning.

oh, and like someone said, its the theobromine (spelling??) thats the problem.

[hubris007]

theobromine is just one of the methylxanthines in chocolate....


There is no chart of lethal doses. Dogs and cats seldom read the books that tell what dose should kill them...