Why is chocolate poisonous for dogs?
Moment of Um
American Public Media
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🗓️ 13 March 2025
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Whether you have a dog, want a dog, don’t like dogs, or are a dog…one thing's for sure. Dogs can’t eat chocolate! Why is it so bad for them? We asked Cassie Panning, a certified veterinary technician from the University of Minnesota, to help us find the answer.
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| 0:00.0 | From the brands behind birds on, this is the moment of um. |
| 0:05.0 | Answered those questions that make you go, um. |
| 0:21.1 | Moment of Um comes to you from APM Studios. |
| 0:24.1 | I'm Cecey the dog. |
| 0:25.3 | Back again. |
| 0:26.5 | How was your weekend? |
| 0:27.5 | Mine was fine. |
| 0:28.3 | Woof. |
| 0:29.6 | Um. |
| 0:31.1 | All right, all right, all right. |
| 0:32.2 | So I know I'm a good dog. |
| 0:34.4 | I'm nice to the baby. |
| 0:35.9 | I only go potty outside. |
| 0:40.0 | I don't shed too much, and I only bark if there's someone on the porch because I love my family and I want to protect them, okay? But sometimes |
| 0:45.0 | I mess up. I can't help it. I'm only human. I mean, dog. I'm only dog. There's one thing I know |
| 0:51.9 | that I can never do, though, and that's eat chocolate. My owners |
| 0:56.9 | explain to me that it's not just because it's human food, and I'm not supposed to eat human |
| 1:01.0 | food, but they seem really, really serious when they told me it's not safe for me. Why is that? |
| 1:06.6 | Woof! |
| 1:08.5 | Hello, my name is Eliza from Denver, Colorado, and my question is, why is chocolate poisonous to dogs? |
| 1:15.5 | My name is Cassie Panning. I'm a certified veterinary technician here at the University of Minnesota, and I work primarily in the Nutrition Service. |
| 1:26.1 | We do nutrition appointments for dogs, so we help with things like dietary recommendations |
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