Post by Cherhorowitz on Feb 18, 2017 9:27:31 GMT -5
Last night at dinner, we bought my son a pretty good sized chocolate cookie. He ate half of it and left the rest in a bag on the table. My dog got into it last night. Probably between 10-11pm. We found out this morning. He weighs around 15lbs. I called the restaurant, it is made with Valrhona, a dark chocolate.
He seems to be acting fine except he won't sit down. But I know dark chocolate is no bien. Should I take him in? Or just keep watching him?
My 15 pound pug ate a cereal bowl full of peanut m&ms and puked them all up. It was then I learned that the amount of chocolate a dog needs to consume to be harmful is massive and unlikely to ever happen in real life.
My 15 pound pug ate a cereal bowl full of peanut m&ms and puked them all up. It was then I learned that the amount of chocolate a dog needs to consume to be harmful is massive and unlikely to ever happen in real life.
M+Ms are milk chocolate though. This is dark chocolate which is freaking me out.
How many ounces of chocolate do you think are in a cookie?
My 15 pound pug ate a cereal bowl full of peanut m&ms and puked them all up. It was then I learned that the amount of chocolate a dog needs to consume to be harmful is massive and unlikely to ever happen in real life.
M+Ms are milk chocolate though. This is dark chocolate which is freaking me out.
How many ounces of chocolate do you think are in a cookie?
My 15 pound pug ate a cereal bowl full of peanut m&ms and puked them all up. It was then I learned that the amount of chocolate a dog needs to consume to be harmful is massive and unlikely to ever happen in real life.
M+Ms are milk chocolate though. This is dark chocolate which is freaking me out.
How many ounces of chocolate do you think are in a cookie?
The dog would have to eat way more than that to get really sick. If any thing I'd hold off on feeding him and give lots of water.
I don't know their recipe, but I was looking at a few cookie recipes. There's an outrageous chocolate cookie recipe of Martha's that makes two dozen and uses 20 ounces of semi sweet chocolate. So, less than one ounce per cookie.
Even assuming restaurants make bigger cookies, your dog ate half so maybe one regular cookie. Here's the recipe if you want to stare at pictures of the cookies while you stare at your dog: www.marthastewart.com/339686/outrageous-chocolate-cookies
I don't know their recipe, but I was looking at a few cookie recipes. There's an outrageous chocolate cookie recipe of Martha's that makes two dozen and uses 20 ounces of semi sweet chocolate. So, less than one ounce per cookie.
Even assuming restaurants make bigger cookies, your dog ate half so maybe one regular cookie. Here's the recipe if you want to stare at pictures of the cookies while you stare at your dog: www.marthastewart.com/339686/outrageous-chocolate-cookies
Oh hi, mind twin, I already have that recipe open and I was doing the math from that. That's where my dark chocolate or bakers chocolate question came from.
I would assume they used dark chocolate. Valrhona sells all different kinds of baking chocolate, but "baker's chocolate" is unsweetened and you'd never eat it, it's just used in things to give a flavor.
I'd assume they'd use less ounces of that and more ounces of dark chocolate in a cookie. The dark chocolate would be the chunks and the bakers would be in the batter to give it chocolate flavor.
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Post by expatmama on Feb 18, 2017 10:56:36 GMT -5
I hope your guy is doing well. Another happy anecdote, I once had a dreadful experience of having a friends 10 year old dachshund get into my suitcase and open a sealed 2lb bag of chocolate chips and eat it all.
I was convinced I had killed the dog. So much vomit and everything you could imagine. Kids crying and saying goodbye to the dog as she was whisked away to the vets 10 hours later.
She was hospitalized for two days and then lived for 4 more years. I'm so grateful. So yes I never willingly feed my dog chocolate, but dogs can be pretty resilient.
Is this the dog that had other issues before? I would call the vet or pet poison control to be safe. Chocolate can cause vitamin deficiencies that may not show right away so a supplement may be warranted. The vets would be able to calculate what the toxicity is. Better to be safe than sorry.
Post by Cherhorowitz on Feb 18, 2017 14:02:56 GMT -5
I called our animal hospital that treats my other dog and spoke to two nurses and a vet. They're really sweet and concerned. She said that since he's out of the window where they would get it out of his system, at this point all they could do was hospitalize and monitor him and it was probably easier for me if I did it at home. She said if there's any concerning changes (like loose bowels, vomiting) bring him in, but for now, he's fine at home. He's currently napping on the couch being his lazy self.
I didn't remember to ask this, but when should I consider him out of the woods? Do I need to stay home for the rest of the weekend?
I called our animal hospital that treats my other dog and spoke to two nurses and a vet. They're really sweet and concerned. She said that since he's out of the window where they would get it out of his system, at this point all they could do was hospitalize and monitor him and it was probably easier for me if I did it at home. She said if there's any concerning changes (like loose bowels, vomiting) bring him in, but for now, he's fine at home. He's currently napping on the couch being his lazy self.
I didn't remember to ask this, but when should I consider him out of the woods? Do I need to stay home for the rest of the weekend?
I think you should be ok to go out if he is acting normal
Don't forget dogs can have a children's chewable pepto bismol. So if you're looking to leave the house I'd give it just in case of dying rear.
Caution with this, pepto contains a derivative of aspirin and can be very dangerous in some dogs and severely toxic to cats.
Chocolate is an annoying toxin to vets. Very dose dependant and it is often tough to know how much they ate. Signs in order go from nothing to gi signs (vomiting/diarrhea) to excitement to cardiac issues to seizures to coma and death. Your puppy is out of the woods at this point for the serious stuff. Just watch for v/d from the rest of the cookie... The fatty cookie can cause pancreatitis.
Post by Cherhorowitz on Feb 18, 2017 21:37:19 GMT -5
Thanks, everybody! We're at 24 hours out now and he seems to be his normal weird self. So I'm going to keep one eye on him and try to make sure he doesn't eat anything else this weekend.
Glad to hear he is doing well! Chocolate nearly killed my mom's 35 lbs dog once, but she ate a very large piece of flourless dark chocolate cake and got sick quite shortly afterwards. Sounds like you are well out of the woods.
When I first read this I thought it was your dog that had been sick and was afraid to keep reading. I'm glad all seems fine.
Is your other dog that was sick before doing ok now?
He's good! Thank you for asking! He's still on daily steroids which we are very slowly weaning. It makes him fat, tired and he pees a lot. But I told his doctor "better fat than dead" this week and he seemed to think that was quite funny. Oh yeah, we go to a specialist at the animal hospital at least once a month for check-ins and blood draws, so I pretty much am on a first name basis with everyone there, so I could hear the sympathy? amusement? that my other dog ate the cookie today. I think I'm getting the reputation for having the dramatic dogs.
But yes, the little one is good. We have had to make some permanent changes in his life in terms of meds, doctor visits, vaccinations, etc. But he's happy and thriving. Sometimes, I look at MH and say, "can you believe he almost died a few months ago?" because his recovery has been so amazing.
I could have probably just said "he's good", but I get excited about him.
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