Reply #7: please be careful ... no chocolate for dogs !!

[welshTerrier2]

according to the article below, your dog (which weighs about 11 kgs) could only handle about 3 - 4 ounces of unsweetened chocolate before it became toxic ... keep anything with chocolate locked up away from where your dog can get it ... think of it like poison ...

source: http://www.crazyfordogs.com/safety/holiday_safety.shtml


Don't feed your dog chocolate. Actually dogs are allergic to the caffeine in chocolate, not to the other ingredients. And it takes a certain amount of chocolate before your dog gets sick. So if your Laborador Retriever grabs a Hershey's Kiss, that is OK. Here are the amounts of caffeine that will cause problems:

100 mg caffeine per 1 kilogram of dog's weight Symptoms will occur
140 mg caffeine per 1 kilogram of dog's weight Toxic level

Milk chocolate has: 45 mg of caffeine per ounce
Unsweetened chocolate has: 400 mg of caffeine per ounce

But to be on the safe side, don't give your dog any chocolate. And if your dog eats chocolate (particularly if he or she is a little dog), contact your vet for advice.