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How can you treat your dog if he eats a chocolate cookie?

Chocolate is harmful to dogs, but it’s unlikely that a single cookie would have enough cocoa to cause lasting harm. If the dog has theobromine poisoning, he will very quickly begin vomiting, urinating, and defecating. That in and of itself doesn’t mean that there’s any serious harm. If it’s very serious, he’ll have seizures and heart arrhythmia and develop internal bleeding.A typical chocolate chip cookie has about 2.5 grams of bittersweet chocolate. That should be tolerated for dogs that weigh more than 0.5 kg (a little over a pound) without much problem.The toxicity of chocolate to dogs depends on the amount of theobromine, which is a chemical found in chocolate. The darker the chocolate, the more theobromine there is in it. The LD50 (dose where 50% of those exposed die) is 300 mg / kg body weight. There’s no toxicity at all below 16 mg / kg. It takes more to harm a larger animal. The amount of theobromine in chocolate depends on the kind: white chocolate - no theobromine; raw cocoa - 12 mg / g, dark chocolate - 7.1 mg / g; milk chocolate - 2 mg / g.So, for a single chocolate chip cookie with 2.4 g grams of bittersweet chocolate (a little less strong than dark chocolate), that’d be 2.4 g * 6 mg / g = 14.4 mg of theobromine. That has a 50% chance of being lethal to a dog that weighs 14.4 mg / 300 mg / kg = 0.048 kg (about 1.5 ounces). A dog that weighs more than 16 mg / kg / 14.4 mg = 1.1 kg (about 2.4 pounds) would not have any toxic response.The risk is really if a dog eats a lot of pure chocolate or cocoa.I should also add that there’s not much treating to be done. The dog will throw up on its own if it gets sick and that’s all you can do for it. The 1/2 life of theobromine ina dog is about 17 hours (so, every 17 hours, the amount in their blood is reduced by 50%).

What should I do if a dog eats chocolate?

Chocolate is toxic to dogs. The darker it is, the more toxic it is.My dog recently ate my entire birthday rocky road which was made from sugar, dark chocolate, marshmallows, dairy chocolate etc. I was convinced she was going to die and my vets was closed.Prior to that a couple of years ago, she ate an entire chocolate Guinness cake and nearly died. Luckily, she vomited most of that up and on the advice of a very sleepy on call vet, we nursed her through the night and she was very very sick, but she was just fine after a couple of days.However, I read online that vets will often give dogs activated charcoal in order to absorb the toxins from the chocolate. I take Activated Charcoal and was able to give her a fair amount (I got the amount from a charcoal / dog calculator) in some pieces of ham and she was completely fine within a couple of hours! This time around with the rocky road, she didn’t vomit at all so I was even more worried. I did find that with the Charcoal, the results were very fast and she drank huge amounts of water to compensate for it but the next day, apart from a HUGE poo, she was non the wiser for it!My advice is to keep Activated Charcoal in the house for if your dog ingests anything they shouldn’t. It could be the difference between life and death if you are unable to get to the vets for any reason or if they are already looking very ill. Make sure you give them lots and lots of water and have a source next to them to drink through the night. Activated Charcoal is completely harmless and absorbs the bad things in the stomach and gut to ensure it all doesn’t reach the blood stream. You need to give a fair enough so look for AC that has the highest content otherwise you can be there for a long time opening capsules and giving them to the dog and it’s a very messy business.When and how to use activated charcoalCan I Give My Dog Activated Charcoal?My dog is 13, she can barely jump up on the sofa and has to be carried up the stairs to bed every night. But when chocolate is involved, she goes full on ninja dog. We are still scratching our heads to this day as to how in the hell she managed to get both the cake and the rocky road as they were, as we thought, completely impossible for her to reach. But when a dog wants something and you aren’t home, you’d be surprised at the lengths they’d go to get it so keep things out of reach!

My dog accidentally ate a chocolate cookie, but it was a little less than half. What might happen and what should I do?

Probably nothing, but you should still keep an eye on your dog and call your vet if the dog seems ill. That’s always best. Canine tolerance to chocolate can really vary.Now, let me tell you a tale of a dog named Freebie, AKA You Rat Bastard, You Just Ate Half a Bag of Butterfingers. I inherited Freebie from my dad, who loved dogs, but was mighty careless about their health. The two notable incidents I recall from my dad’s half-amused/half-annoyed recollections were the time Freebie ate an entire chocolate cake and the time he ate an enormous order of General Tso’s Chicken. Reportedly, he felt pretty bleah afterward, but he survived.He’s now 11 and has he learned his lesson? Hell, no. The Butterfinger incident was this winter. Outcome? No effect whatsoever. I have to put any chocolate I have into the cupboard because if I, say, put something out for lunch the next day, the cats will knock it off the counter and that damned dog will eat it all. He’s really good at finding stuff I didn’t even know I had in my book bag.Look at this guy. Just look at him. You’d never know he was a hardened chocolate thief.