Note to Self: DO NOT EAT

OK, so Mom and Dad were getting ready for bed, and there was this package of Chips Ahoy lying on the table, and I figured that no one would notice one or two missing...

...only I didn't stop at one or two...

Yes, I know Mom said I can't have chocolate.

Yes, I know Mom said chocolate is bad for me.

Yes, I know Mom said chocolate chip cookies are people food, not dog food.

But they smelled REALLY good, and Mom eats 'em....how bad can they be?

So now Mom and Dad are trying to figure out how many I ate (how should I know? I didn't count them - I just ate them) and how much the chips weigh and how much I weigh and all of this complicated math stuff.

Dad says that semi-sweet chocolate chips aren't as bad as baking or dark chocolate (milk chocolate is even less dangerous), but no one is sure quite how many I ate (not even me).

Theobromine, Mom says, is in chocolate, and if a dog gets too much of it, it can cause all sorts of bad things.

Most likely, I'll get bad gas, diarrhea, a tummyache, and maybe throw up.

I have bad gas anyway, and I don't have to clean up the other two. And they tasted REALLY good.

And so now Mom is making me blog about how dogs shouldn't eat chocolate.

You can find out more about what can be dangerous to dogs at the ASPCA's Poison Control Center website.

Oh, and while frantically searching the internet for the uh-oh formula on chocolate, Mom found this site where you can get vets to answer your questions online (way cheaper than poison control): http://www.justanswer.com/.

The vet Mom got said:

I dont think it will be a problem. For your dog to show mild signs of chocolate toxicity he should eat 445 mg Theobromine, to show moderate signs 880 mg Theobromine and to show sever signs 1320 mg Theobromine. He ate 5 oz of cookies, which may be maximum 2 oz of it is chocolate. If you say the worst case scenario it is baking chocolate in the cookie which has 393 mg theobromine/oz. it makes total of 786 mg Theobromine which causes mild signs. But I think the chocolate in these cookies are milk chocolate, so it makes about 112 mg Theobromine ingested.

I would still keep an eye on your dog for tremors and shaking.

Mom is not happy with my dietary indiscretion.

Note to Self: Chocolate Chip Cookies (though tasty) are not for dogs.