Our late, greatly missed Golden Retriever, Prior Lake Jake somehow got into a full bag of Hershey’s Kisses and consumed nearly the entire bag.
Although chocolate is supposedly poisonous to dogs, this meal didn’t seem to bother Jake.
There was quite a bit of tinfoil in his kennel, tho...
My late Golden, Terra, did this when she was being boarded over Thanksgiving one year. The kennel was over full, and the owner liked my dog and allowed her to have the run of the office during the day. She went into the owner’s house over night. Terra discovered the owner’s stash of Hershey’s kisses under the desk and ate the whole bag. No harm, thank goodness.
I’m told that it didn’t bother her because it was milk chocolate, and she was an 85 lb dog. Had it been dark chocolate and she was a 45 lb dog, the results might have been different.
This article makes me sad, however, because I’d developed the habit of removing (and eating myself) all raisins (and dried cranberries for good measure) from anything I’m eating and giving the remainder to our precious Golden, Max. He died last month from Pancreatic cancer, and we miss him so much.
Milk chocolate has very little theobromine compared to dark chocolate. I Jake had gotten into that much dark chocolate, you’d likely have a sadder story to tell.
“... quite a bit of tinfoil in his kennel...”
Short story: a friend’s dog got into the Christmas stockings and consumed about a bag and a half of the green and red foiled Hershey Kisses. Nothing happened to the dog BUT the backyard looked like it had been decorated for the season. Little red and green foil.... glimmered at night. LOL!
I had a female sheltie who did the same thing. She was old and ill at the time, and I thought it might have a very bad effect on her; but, shiny bits in her poop was it.
My cocker spaniel ate almost a whole box of chocolate macadamia nuts....found the box on the floor after being gone a couple of hours. She seemed totally unaffected by it, but I’d certainly never offer them to her!