Nicholas Chia
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So it's definitely the size of the dog or the size of the cat and the type and darkness of chocolate.
So a 30 pound dog, for example, can approximately handle seven tablespoons of milk chocolate.
but only three tablespoons of semi-sweet chocolate.
And it's because semi-sweet chocolate has more cocoa.
Cocoa has theobromine, which is what causes toxicity.
Yeah, so white chocolate, technically, there's no theobromine in it.
I mean, there's other issues with the sugar.
So sweet, white chocolate.
Yeah, very gross.
All right, we've got time for like one or two more if we rapid fire it.
All right, so grapes and raisins.
Some dogs are not sensitive to grape toxicity.
I didn't even know that.
True or false?
Let's just go true.
It is true.
So genetically, some dogs have a mutation or maybe they were the original that they can eat some grapes and they're okay.
Now, this does not mean you can do a wait and see approach.
Yeah, you cannot give them grapes or raisins.
It causes kidney damage, sometimes permanent kidney failure, but the symptoms don't show up for weeks.