Hi all My newfie pup (10 months) has just eaten a box of Lindl chocs!
I obviously rang vet straight away!!!. They seem quite calm about it! They said a dog can cope with 50g of chocolate per kg of weight. My boy has eaten 200g (or just under as he left 4!) and weighs in at 45kg they said they are not concerned but keep an eye and take him straight there if worried.
I thought it was more serious if a dog ate chocolate or am I being too precious?? :-(
If anyone else has experienced this were they told the same??
Thank you in advance
(Not so) Happy Mummy

They are probably correct in their calculations :) Is it milk chocolate ? This is less dangerous than dark chocolate anyway. The quantity and type of chocolate and size of dog is important.

Dogs eating chocolate can be very serious so you were right to check with your vets straight away, but as your dog is very large there is probably no problem - on this occasion :)

Hi daisy

Thanks for replying so quickly :-)
Guessed I was worrying too much difficult not to though.
Yes milk chocolate "from the master choclitiers" apparently :-)
Hopefully my heart rate will drop back down to less than 200 beats per minute!

I've just found this post by Jeangenie (who knows what she is talking about :) )

Chocolate eating in dogs

I guess it's lucky he is such a large breed, what a waste of the delicious Lindors though!! Hope he is ok and you can stop panicking. :-)

A few years ago one of my Newfi's got hold of a small amount of chocolate, she was fine but I got through a lot of cleaning cloths and disinfectant over the next 24 hours! Milk chocolate usually contains little coco solids anyway and I think it is that which causes the problems. At least he left you a couple of chocolates - that was kind of him!

Do you know my dad's dog a GSD used to eat chocolate with him every night he nor the dog had bad teeth or overweight, this was before we knew the dangers of dog's eating chocolate alway milk choc though!!

My dogs love and eat grapes with chocolate and going strong for years

Hi
Thanks everyone for help and reassurance. As you probably expected he is fine, no ill effects! Even had a normal poo tonight I was expecting soup. Still time I guess :-)
Feel a little silly gets so worried now but just can't help it!!!
Thing is I am dairy intolerant so chocolate very rarely in the house generally. Even less so now.....unless I can get some shelves hung from the ceiling :-)
Take care all :-)

>"from the master choclitiers"

Nothing but the best for your dog eh?  :-)

LOL @ Jean SW
Indeed Jean, maybe I should buy smart price ones and see if he is as keen :-)

So glad your dog is ok! :)

Would just say though, it's not just the weight and type of choc that has an effect, we had a whippet a few years back to ate half of the contents of a cheap advent calendar and was fitting by the time we realised. She was very poorly over a small amount of milk choc, she was a bit of a fatty too. All ended well, must be some kind of biological conditions that count towards it or something, but I wouldn't know what.

All you can do is follow the advice of your vet though. Hope your pup enjoyed his treat :) haha. Glad all's ok :)