Premature halloween gorging sends dog to veterinarian again
Thor found his way onto the table on Monday and ate quite a few chocolate whoppers....wrappers and all. Tuesday he seemed okay except for twice vomiting. Wednesday morning he was vomiting more often with chocolate and wrappers coming up. So, the vet wanted to see him to make sure he did not have high levels of theobromine, which is a naturally occurring stimulate in the cocoa bean. According to 'Dog Owner's Digest', "theobromine increases urination and affects the central nervous system as well as heart muscle".
On the scale of toxicity, White Chocolate is the least toxic because it contains the least amount of theobromine at about 1mg per ounce. While the most toxic is baking chocolate which has about 450mg per ounce. Furthermore, hot chocolate has about 12 mg of theobromine per ounce, milk chocolate has about 60 mg/oz, and up there near baking chocolate is semi-sweet chocolate with 260 mg/oz. Dog Owner's Digest has a way to remember the order of toxicity, "What Happy Moose Says BAA? Or: White-Hot-Milk-Semi-Baked."
Well, Thor had to stay overnight so they could induce vomiting, take X-rays, and monitor his condition. He vomited wrappers three or four times before going to the vet and they induced vomiting two or three more times getting out large amounts of chocolate and wrappers from his stomach. He finally home on Thursday evening.
Then Friday, mom was playing with him on my bed and he suddenly yelped when mom touched his face a certain way. He then got down and kept licking his lips like there was something there he could not get off. I finally got him up on the bed and was checking his mouth when I noticed he had a tooth barely holding on. So, we decided it would be best to go ahead and pull the tooth. We tried to use floss to take it out but that never did work. So we had to use a pair of pliers (how redneckish is that?). We pulled it and it quite bleeding quickly and it looks fine now.
Now the only worry I have is to make sure he poops, which I have not observed yet (I know, not the most exciting thing).
On the scale of toxicity, White Chocolate is the least toxic because it contains the least amount of theobromine at about 1mg per ounce. While the most toxic is baking chocolate which has about 450mg per ounce. Furthermore, hot chocolate has about 12 mg of theobromine per ounce, milk chocolate has about 60 mg/oz, and up there near baking chocolate is semi-sweet chocolate with 260 mg/oz. Dog Owner's Digest has a way to remember the order of toxicity, "What Happy Moose Says BAA? Or: White-Hot-Milk-Semi-Baked."
Well, Thor had to stay overnight so they could induce vomiting, take X-rays, and monitor his condition. He vomited wrappers three or four times before going to the vet and they induced vomiting two or three more times getting out large amounts of chocolate and wrappers from his stomach. He finally home on Thursday evening.
Then Friday, mom was playing with him on my bed and he suddenly yelped when mom touched his face a certain way. He then got down and kept licking his lips like there was something there he could not get off. I finally got him up on the bed and was checking his mouth when I noticed he had a tooth barely holding on. So, we decided it would be best to go ahead and pull the tooth. We tried to use floss to take it out but that never did work. So we had to use a pair of pliers (how redneckish is that?). We pulled it and it quite bleeding quickly and it looks fine now.
Now the only worry I have is to make sure he poops, which I have not observed yet (I know, not the most exciting thing).
posted by Brian Wright at 12:38 PM
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