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Question :- Why dogs can't eat chocolates.

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Answer 1

Chocolate contains cocoa and cocoa contains compound theobromine . Theobromine is toxic for dogs and hence they can't eat chocolates.
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Answer 2

Many people believe that it's because chocolate contains caffeine. While chocolate does contain very small amounts of caffeine, it contains another similar substance that's the real problem: theobromine.

Theobromine is an alkaloid that acts as a stimulant like caffeine does. Dogs, however, don't have a specific enzymethat humans use to break down theobromine. As a result, theobromine can overstimulate the central nervous and cardiovascular systems in dogs, leading to increased blood pressure, vomiting, dehydration, abdominalpains, seizures, and even death.

Whether or not eating chocolate will harm your dog depends upon several factors, including the type of chocolate eaten and the size of your dog. In general, larger dogs can eat larger quantities of chocolate without incidents, while even a small quantity of chocolate may affect a very small dog.

Certain types of chocolate contain more theobromine than others. As a general rule, the darker the chocolate, the more theobromine it will have. Whitechocolate and milk chocolate contain the least theobromine. Dark chocolate, on the other hand, has about three times more theobromine than milkchocolate does.

Two types of chocolate to be especially aware of are baker's chocolate and cocoa powder. Baker's chocolate has about three times more theobromine than dark chocolate, and cocoa powder has almost twice the theobromine that baker's chocolate has.