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I doubt it was enough to hurt her but I want to make sure. I can't believe she got a hold of this either. I have in a vase on a table mixed in with some artificial roses a Dove milk chocolate rose I got from Valentine's Day and she got it. I think they are hollow. Kimiko is about 25 lbs. She ripped the foil off too. All this time it's been there and I have no idea what possessed her to go for it today!

Is she going to be okay? She seems fine right now.

Thanks!

I don't think that would have been enough chocolate to hurt Kimiko. If she still seems fine after this amount of time she should be okay. It really takes a good amount of chocolate to become a problem though there is always the sensitivity of the dog itself as to what may happen. Should you notice any abnormal behavior then it would be wise to get her to a vet.
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If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.

I agree with Bob. Over the years, we have had at least one chocolate incident per dog. None ever suffered any ill effects. Milk chocolate is far less dangerous than dark chocolate. The most dangerous of all, however, are chocolate covered raisins.........not so much the chocolate as the raisins!

Chocolate smells sooooo good!
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Anne, Bill, and Murphy

P.S. So far, Murphy hasn't ever eaten any chocolate, although he did find a foil wrapped Dove heart recently. Apparantly, it was a Valentine escapee. Luckily, I saw him mouthing something and checked....it was still foil wrapped and he was just kind of
checking it out. He traded happily for one of his treats.

Mom always sees everything I do!
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Anne, Bill, and Murphy

Thanks! I think Kimiko will be fine. I worried about her all night but she's fine this morning. I don't think she had enough to hurt her. I read online that a dog her size would have to eat about a pound of chocolate before it became poisonous but as you said, some dogs are different. She ate 0.7 oz. of milk chocolate so thank goodness it was milk chocolate. I still can't figure how she sniffed it out when it was so tightly wrapped. I couldn't even smell the chocolate!

Now I want to wait and check her stool to make sure the foil comes out because event though she left some I know she must have ingested some of that too.

We've gone through the foil bit too, and never with any harm. Candy foil is softer than aluminum foil.

As to how she sniffed it out..........a Shiba's nose knows!

How could I NOT smell chocolate!!!
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Anne, Bill, and Murphy

I should have added this. Now that Kimiko has actually tasted this good stuff, you really need to be extra watchful. As we all know, chocolate is addictive and she will be hoping for more!

Was it as good as it smells, Kimiko?
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Anne, Bill, and Murphy

Is candy foil softer? It sure didn't feel like it was but I'm glad to hear that. At first I thought how the heck did she bite through that without seeing stars?

So true...they can sniff out anything!

Thanks!

Hope she's okay (sounds like she is)! These dogs. . . . Do they have any idea how much we care about them? How our bellies hurt as much as theirs when they do something silly?

She's been fine all day so I guess there was no need to worry but your so right..I barely slept because I was worried maybe she would get sick in the middle of the night.

We had gone through this once before a couple of years ago when my husband left a bag of rasinets on the couch because he got distracted and it was hard to tell but Kimiko must have eaten at least half. My vet said the raisins were worse than the chocolate. So we had to do the peroxide thing and we took her outside and waited and oh boy!! I didn't want to have to go through that again.

That peroxide thing is truly terrible! It's very effective, but makes you feel like the absolute meanest person ever!
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Anne, Bill, and Murphy

You are so right! I hated doing that to my baby but I was so in fear she would get sick or die from that amount of chocolate AND raisins that we had to do it. Once she started vomiting she didn't stop and I felt so bad for her. I'm glad we took her outside because what a mess. We felt better knowing it was totally out of her system though but boy was she exhausted. I can't imagine how she must have felt.

I've never heard of the "peroxide thing" - please tell me what it's for, and what it's made from. By the sound of it I hope I never have to use it,....but, you never know.

Thanks!

Patty

Patty the peroxide is used to induce vomiting with dogs. The 3% solution peroxide is what is used.
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If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.

When your dog ingests something that is dangerous to him, such as chocolate, or as one of ours once did, a lot of raw shrimp in shells, and you need to induce vomiting, you can accomplish this by using hydrogen peroxide. This is administered with a turkey baster. It works fairly quickly, and really does the job. Even after the main amount comes back up, there is retching and dry heaving. It's awful to watch and you feel your baby will never trust you again. They do forgive you, though, and don't always remember the lesson they should have learned.

It works well in one way, though. You will be so sorry to have had to do this that you will be even more vigilant about not letting them get into the situation in the first place!

I hope we never have to do it again!
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Anne, Bill, and Murphy

It definitely is something you don't want to have to do but it does work. You take a mixture of hydrogen peroxide and water which you know your baby isn't going to want to drink willingly so my husband had to force it with a spoon. Then you just sit and wait and I suggest doing this outside because once he/she starts vomiting it's non-stop! Being it was chocolate we were trying to bring back up you can imagine you don't want that on your carpet. I remember Kimiko vomited about 5 times in total but it was a relief to me because I knew she brought up all the chocolate and raisins she ate and she was fine.