What should I do if my dog ate chocolate chip cookies?

While the occasional chocolate chip within one cookie may not be an issue, we worry about certain types of chocolate – the less sweet and the darker the chocolate, the more toxic it is to your pet. Baker's chocolate and dark chocolate pose the biggest problem. read more

My dad's dog go into a bag of mini peanut butter cups and ate a bunch of them and was fine. I think it either needs to be a lot of chocolate or a prolonged exposure to chocolate. Just watch for any difference in behavior. read more

My dog just ate seven large, homemade cookies, including 2 chocolate-chocolate chip, 3 walnut and two pecan chocolate chip cookies. She's a 40-lb standard poodle. She's showing no symptoms (yet). read more

Pets that ingest a few M&Ms or 1-2 bites of a chocolate chip cookie are unlikely to develop chocolate poisoning. For milk chocolate, any ingestion of more than 0.5 ounces per pound of body weight may put dogs at risk for chocolate poisoning. Ingestions of more than 0.13 ounces per pound of dark or semi-sweet chocolate may cause poisoning. read more