25/02/2022
❌ NO IS BUENO FOR ❌.
Ah Easter, it’s that super fun time of the year where there’s an ungodly amount of chocolate absolutely everywhere and no one can escape it.
Maxy here thought he struck absolute bloody gold when he stumbled upon TWO golden Easter bunnies and devoured them to himself, as would I have, so no judgement here dude.
So here’s the thing about chocolate. It has a naturally occurring chemical called theobromine (theo -bro-mine) in it that makes them sick, really sick.
When they eat too much of it, they start off with explosive vomiting, diarrhoea and hyperactivity. This develops into drooling, trembling and eventually seizuring which no is bueno!
🍫 white chocolate is not real chocolate (mostly sugar and fat)
🍫 a small-moderate amount of milk chocolate needs to be eaten to cause severe effects
🍫 dark/ baking/ cacao chocolate is very very bad for doggos and only a very small amount is needed for severe effects to present.
So you come home and your ratbag dog has demolished all the chocolates you left on the kitchen table, what do you do, apart from cry at the loss of your precious chocolate.
Pull yourself together and contact your local vet practice but gather the following information first;
🍫figure out how much of what type of chocolate your doggo ate (white/milk/dark) one block of Cadbury milk is about 180 grams depending on the size.
🍫 try to piece together when it happened
🍫 know your dogs weight
🍫 monitor their behaviour closely until you can get to a vet to make them vom vom
Maxy was very proud of his spectacular display of projectile vomit and was treated soon enough that he went home pretty soon after his award winning performance.
Worth a mention, you cannot stick your fingers down your dogs throat to make them vomit as they don’t have the same kind of gag reflex we do,
You’ll get bitten and your dog will be very confused as to why you tried to fist their mouth. Leave making your dog vomit to the professionals!
Until next time doggo parents! Keep them chocolàtès out of your reach of the hounds because they can’t help but love what kills them. What’s your toxic trait?
