Many dog owners have heard that dogs can't eat chocolate, but why? Why can't dogs eat chocolate? Can dogs die if they eat chocolate?
In the United States, there is a popular saying that a small pet dog can't eat chocolate, or it will be in danger of death, even if it only eats a little.
Dogs have been with us for a long time. Maybe it is for this reason that we have the same food preference as dogs. However, for sweets, although human beings can easily digest them, dogs can't, and the chocolate they like most is poisonous to them, sometimes even taking their lives. The more chocolate a dog eats, the more authentic it is, the more damage it suffers. Maybe because of the resistance, a little chocolate for a large dog won't cause any big problems, and the owner of a small dog should pay special attention not to let your dog eat a little chocolate.
Chocolate is processed from cocoa beans and contains a variety of derivatives of methylxanthine, which includes caffeine and theobromine. These substances can bind to some receptors on the cell surface, thus preventing natural substances in animals from binding to receptors. Taking a small dose of methylxanthine, dogs will vomit and diarrhea, while humans will have a kind of euphoria. Chocolate contains a lot of theobromine and a small amount of caffeine. If dogs eat too much chocolate, they will have muscle spasm or even shock. After taking theobromine and caffeine, the dog's heart rate will suddenly rise to more than twice the normal rate, and some dogs will run around like drinking a large cup of espresso.
A dog can also digest a small amount of chocolate, depending on its size and the type of chocolate it eats. Unsweetened baking chocolate contains more than six times the amount of methylxanthine. For some small dogs, four ounces of chocolate cream can be a lethal dose, according to experts.