Love your pet… love your vet


 It’s that time of year to bestow the ones we love with cards and gifts as a way of letting them know just how much they are thought of and loved. This can quite often involve chocolate, and as much as we all love a bit of chocolate, this can be dangerous to our dogs if ingested.


The problem is that eating even a small piece of chocolate leads a dog to crave more and can mean they will literally jump at an opportunity to steal any type of chocolate.


 contains theobromine – a naturally occurring stimulant found in the cocoa bean. Theobromine increases urination and affects the central nervous system as well as heart muscle. While amounts vary by type of chocolate, it's the theobromine that is poisonous to dogs.


You can recognise that your dog has eaten a toxic dose of chocolate from the symptoms. Within the  diarrhoea, hyperactivity and as time passes and there's increased absorption of the toxic substance, you'll see an increase in the dog's heart rate, which can cause arrhythmia, restlessness, hyperactivity, muscle twitching, increased urination and/or


excessive panting. This can lead to hyperthermia, muscle tremors, seizures, coma and in some cases sadly death.


Knowing how much is too much for each dog is a  of cocoa in the chocolate. Generally, the darker the chocolate, the higher the cocoa content.


 chocolate type that can be toxic to dogs:


• Milk chocolate – approximately 500g of milk chocolate is poisonous to a 10kg dog.


 a 10kg dog; 90g for a 5kg dog.


  28g for a 5kg dog.


 receive chocolate, make sure it is safely out of  has ingested some, you should contact your vet immediately for their advice.


  Love your pet… love your vet


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