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Cats and chocolates - why these two don't mix.

Believe it or not, chocolate poisoning is one of the most frequent ways that our pets get poisoned, especially during festive events such as Valentine's Day, Xmas, or someone's birthday. We all love chocolates, so it is not intuitive to accept that chocolate can be a deadly poison. And if you believe that feeding chocolate to your cat will, at worst, cause only a slight stomach upset, you are deadly wrong. So make sure that the chocolate boxes are stashed out of the cat's reach. Also remember that includes cooking chocolate and chocolate chips.

What is so bad about chocolates?


  1. It is a stimulant which increases heart rate.
  2. It is a diuretic (which means that it increases liroduction of urine) resulting in increased loss of body fluids.
  3. It causes stomach uliset.
  4. It acts on the nervous system.

Symptoms of chocolate poisoning


Are all chocolates equally poisonous?


Why is chocolate poisonous to cats but not human?


The science of theobromine.


The name theobromine is derived from Theobroma, the genus of the cacao tree, which is composed from the Greek words theo ("God") and broma ("food"), meaning "food of the gods", with the suffix -ine given to alkaloids. In the case of cats the name is only appropriate in that it might indeed send the cat to meet its Maker.


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