sams eaten a box of chocolates!!!!!!

[*sammy*]

i've been out for about three hours this sfternoon and had left the sttair gate open by mistake i was amazed to see he hadn't made a mess at all and was quite relieved. BUT i've just gone upstairs and found an empty box of chocolates (that OH had upstairs last night ). he has eaten about 15 milk chocolates what shall i do?? he seems fine in himself!!

[Sheryl]

Can you phone the vet and see what they say?  They are usually pretty good about what needs to be got rid of and what doesn't!

[Mari]

I would phone the vet and ask. How much chocolate did he eat?

[*sammy*]

he ate 15 little ones-a whole tray full. have just phoned the vets and they have said to keep and eye on him and the amount he drinks and to phone back in an hour

[Pammy]

I wouldn't worry. Milk choc's are less dangerous than plain choc. Keep an eye on him. If he shows signs of being unwell then contact your vet - but if you are worried then by all means give them a call.

Jasper and Buddy stole and ate a whole Chocolate Orange coupled with a load of big German Marshmallow bombs on Christmas Day while we were out!! No ill effects luckily.

[Sheryl]

There you go then.  If they were really worried they would have had you drag Sam in right away.  They maybe think it is enough to make him feel off but not enough to be dangerous.  Here is hoping that he is none the worse for his ordeal

At least he likes chocolate and not Anadin Extra like Kali

[Mari]

I hope everything goes well, crossing fingers and paws here. I read in an article that an average size spaniel would need to eat about 200g for it to be seriously dangerous. So hopefully it wil not be a problem for you as he probably ate a lot less.

[Cazzie]

  Yes something I know only too well  Keep an eye on him as you will soon know if he is not right, milk chocolate is however not as bad as the dark terries all gold daisy ate, when the chocolate took effect, she was behaving like an addict going cold turkey, it was awful to watch, she did however end up in the vets, they didnt make her sick as it had been in her system too long, she did recover and was passing little chocolate bars for days  It was a VERY expensive box of chocolates, but worth every penny to get her back to health 

[Saffaroo]

Hope all goes well - Saffy ate 18 belgian chocolates last Christmas with absolutely no ill effects whatsoever - I phoned the vet, told him what had happened and he did not seem too concerned other than to say she may have an upset tummy for a day or so........   Saffy was fine as I said, me and OH were complete wrecks having convinced ourselves we had probably poisoned her.....   the vet did say we could make her vomit with salt water if we wanted to, but made it sound like we didn't need to, so we didn't......................hope she is ok

[Tigger]

I'm sure he will be okay. My Guinness ate a chocolate santa at christmas and gave us a bit of a worry but he's fine. Trust your vet and trust yourself- your dog will tell you if something's wrong. Anyway, at least he's not practically climbing your bookcase to get at the tropical fish food like my Golden Retriever...

Elaine & Guinness

[jools]

Both of these monsters ate chocolates this year. We has nipped out for half an hour and when we got back, brammie was getting stuck in to a box of Roses. When I was clearing up, I noticed a hazelnut in amongst the wrappers. She had clearly licked all the chocolate off and spat out the nut  

While Brammie was chomping on the roses, Poppy had managed to drag a box of Twilight into her bed.

Both were neither up nor down with them - thank god.

Hope Sam's OK.

[Mrs T]

On the humorous side, you have to imagine these little rascals, especially where there is more than one, saying "Right, that's them out of the way, let's go hunting!"

[brightsparkler]

i read that  its the coco in chocolate whats bad for dogs , but not all dogs are affected by it ,its a bit like a nut or sea food allergy with humans, and can be deadly.but the risk is still there so i would not give mine chocolate but cockers are little buggers . before we knew that chocolate was bad for dogs ,many years ago i had a dog that ate kit kats daily with no affect at all. so if he is well in him self dont worry.

[*sammy*]

thanks everyone

i was so relived as well as the place was tidy usually any paper he finds is shredded, and connor toys were all out-he ran straight up to his bedroom to check on his things

i bet sam thought he was in heaven. as he's not allowed into the living room at all now, but he also go to go upstairs but my bed is too high for him to get onto so i don't have to change the sheets-thank god.
as soon as i opened the front door he ran into his bed he was really funny-the little monster

[Nicola]

I'm glad Sam's ok; when Alfie was about 5 months old we had friends staying for a weekend and I came out of the shower one day to find him chomping his way through a large bar of Green and Black's dark chocolate out of their bag, he'd eaten about 2/3 of it. I put a toothbrush handle down his throat to make him sick and then took him to the vet as it was quite a lot of pure dark chocolate he'd eaten and he wasn't very big at the time either. They made him sick again but there were no lasting effects other than one very narked looking puppy