Isn’t the chocolate thing often exaggerated though? Like if a 50lb dog eats a full snickers bar, most vets would tell you not to worry about it.
Like don’t feed them chocolate, or leave a bucket of candy out where they can have it, but if you walk to the bathroom on movie night and he snatched half your chocolate bar off the coffee table; he’s not going to die.
Grapes on the other hand… Apparently they’re fucking dangerous
It’s bad for their kidneys, it’s not like they are going to keel over and die right away, but it’s going to hurt then long term and shorten their life span.
I mean, you wouldn’t let your dog smoke would you?
Well yeah but understanding risks is valuable. My point was more that if a dog knocks his head on the table make sure he’s not bleeding and keep an eye on him for a bit, you probably don’t need to take him to the vet. I indeed would not advise anyone to hit their dog in the head with a table.
I imagine, the problem comes in from there being wildly different sizes of both, dogs and chocolate.
I once heard a story, where a small dog had eaten chocolate, so the owner called the vet. And at first, the vet told them that it’s probably fine, but wanted to know how much chocolate the dog ate.
And when they then told the vet, that the dog had eaten a full-size chocolate bar, suddenly it was treated like an emergency. As in, they had to bring the dog to the vet immediately, got treated before everyone else still waiting, and the dog was given a drug to make it puke out all the chocolate.
Caffeine is toxic to most animals. Milk chocolate has so little actual chocolate in it that there’s virtually no caffeine, so that’s why your vet tells you not to worry about the snickers bar. If you eat dark chocolate because you’re not a troglodyte then you might have more to worry about
Isn’t the chocolate thing often exaggerated though? Like if a 50lb dog eats a full snickers bar, most vets would tell you not to worry about it.
Like don’t feed them chocolate, or leave a bucket of candy out where they can have it, but if you walk to the bathroom on movie night and he snatched half your chocolate bar off the coffee table; he’s not going to die.
Grapes on the other hand… Apparently they’re fucking dangerous
It’s bad for their kidneys, it’s not like they are going to keel over and die right away, but it’s going to hurt then long term and shorten their life span.
I mean, you wouldn’t let your dog smoke would you?
Depends on what they’re smoking and if they’re sharing.
What?
“Yeah, could I get $20 on pump 7, and a pack of Spirits for the pup.”
Of course a borzoi would smoke spirits.
Well yeah but understanding risks is valuable. My point was more that if a dog knocks his head on the table make sure he’s not bleeding and keep an eye on him for a bit, you probably don’t need to take him to the vet. I indeed would not advise anyone to hit their dog in the head with a table.
Yeah, exactly.
I imagine, the problem comes in from there being wildly different sizes of both, dogs and chocolate.
I once heard a story, where a small dog had eaten chocolate, so the owner called the vet. And at first, the vet told them that it’s probably fine, but wanted to know how much chocolate the dog ate.
And when they then told the vet, that the dog had eaten a full-size chocolate bar, suddenly it was treated like an emergency. As in, they had to bring the dog to the vet immediately, got treated before everyone else still waiting, and the dog was given a drug to make it puke out all the chocolate.
Caffeine is toxic to most animals. Milk chocolate has so little actual chocolate in it that there’s virtually no caffeine, so that’s why your vet tells you not to worry about the snickers bar. If you eat dark chocolate because you’re not a troglodyte then you might have more to worry about