Well technically, I don't know if I would be considered expert but I have a lot of real world hands on experience over the past few years, all thanx to my Beaglebrat, Shiloh. No, I have never GIVEN him any kind of chocolate but being as how I am a chocoholic, he manages to find chocolate. I have learned in the past few years it MUST be kept behind a door or in the fridge or else he is gonna find it. Sometimes I do forget or get in a hurry - the most recent time was just last nite. I had taken Beaglebrat Shasta for a walk - we were gone MAYBE a half hour. At home, in a plastic bag on the kitchen table - totally covered by a rain coat, was an unopened package of Hostess Ding Dongs. Well, when I got home - the package wrapper was torn and on the floor - the plastic bag was on the floor and I was left feeling like a ding dong.
Oh yea, he's ok - never did throw up.
A couple of years ago, a friend of mine made me a small bundt type chocolate cake for my birthday - about 8 inches in diameter. Silly me put it on the kitchen table - in the middle with no chairs around but when I got home (we had gone out for dinner), the plate the cake was on - was on the floor, minus the cake. Can he fly I wonder - maybe do like a helicopter and hover over his target in order to inhale it? I did call the vet on this but they all know us plus I know hydrogen peroxide works wonders at getting a dog to upchuck - I just did that and watched him like a hawk for a day - no lasting effects.
I gotta get bak to work........