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Like most of you I enjoy a bar of chocolate (or two) and the gateau, 'Death by Chocolate' is a wonderful treat.
We are often tempted to share our treats with our dogs and in many cases this is a harmless action, but the sharing of chocolate is not.
I don't intend to blind you with science and go into the ins and outs of the physiological mechanisms of a dog's body.
Simply to say that the ingredients in chocolate are harmful to dogs and a dog cannot excrete and get rid of these harmful products to save the day, in fact they reabsorb them through the liver and the outcome can be fatal.
You might have heard of people who have taken an overdose of paracetamol who after a while seem fine, only to collapse later because they have reabsorbed the substance and in a way have re-poisoned themselves.
It is a similar situation, but with a different substance, when dogs ingest or overdose on chocolate. Small amounts can be as lethal as large, some dogs, like humans are allergic to it, the rule is never give it in the first place. Perhaps you (and I) shouldn't be having as much of it as we do (have you weighed yourself lately like I did? -- eek!) then you won't be tempted to give your dog a very dangerous titbit.