"It's only three years old, and it's gone because of a chocolate that fell on the ground..." In the hallway of the pet hospital, Mr. Zhang was holding a kogi dog that had lost its body temperature, "the cake," and he couldn't cry. A few minutes ago, the doctor just declared the rescue null and void, and the black chocolate that his family had put on the tea table, became the victim of the "Yen Cake."
This tragedy was not a coincidence, but the topic #of the chocolate poisoning of the pets # has been on the heat search many times. Just last month, a Hangzhou netizens shared their stories on social platforms: cats licked chocolate ice cream left behind by their owners on the couch, the same night with vomiting and an accelerated heart rate, and after three days and three nights of rescue, treatment costs nearly $10,000. A similar experience in the comment area is that some dogs are in a coma when they miss the cake with cocoa powder, and some pets suffer from acute kidney failure when they steal chocolate fertilizers... and every comment is followed by the heartache of a pet.
Veterinary experts have clearly warned that cocoa alkalin and caffeine contained in chocolate are highly toxic to pets. In the case of dogs, the ingestion of 115 mg of cacao-alkali per kilogram of body weight could be fatal, while a block of 100 grams of black chocolate could contain more than 1,000 mg of cacao-alkali. What's even more striking is that after pet poisoning, there's only two hours to save the gold, and if you miss it, there's a huge increase in mortality. In reality, many foster families are unaware of this, and some even feel that "a small amount of feeding is okay" until the tragedy occurs.
Besides chocolate, there's a lot of hidden pet killers in life. Onions and garlic can cause carving anaemia in pets, grapes and raisins can cause kidney failure, and glucose gum can lead to low blood sugar and liver failure in a short period of time ... The 2024 pet poisoning report, published by a pet medical platform, shows that up to 72 per cent of cases of poisoning due to the misuse of human food, 60 per cent of whom are pet owners who admit that “not knowing that these foods are harmful to the pets”.
And what's even more embarrassing is that some of the acts that look like pet friendly also carry risks. In the small districts, there are always eager neighbours who give milk to stray cats without knowing that most cats have lactose intolerant conditions that can cause diarrhoea; in the parks, people throw their unsatisfied meals to dogs, even though salty and oily food increases the kidney burden on pets. These good-faith feedings are often turned into sharp objects that harm pets.