Guinea pig eating chocolate?

[rainbowstarsx]

I was just wondering, what would happen if a guinea ate chocolate?

EDIT: I have and would never feed my guineas anything other than their food and their veggies!
Just to clear THAT up in case people think I'm feeding my baby boy it

 

[zarapiggie]

I read dairy is a no no for pigs!

 

[HairlessWillow7]

It's can't be good for them at all as it's full of sugar

 

[rainbowstarsx]

I read somewhere that they'd die instantly.

I think someone was just over reacting!

 

[HairlessWillow7]

Yeah, they probably were overreacting. It would have to go through the digestive system first to do some damage. I think it can be fatal if they eat it, but it depends on how much they eat.

 

[Amanda1801]

The dairy wouldn't do much good to their digestive system, the sugar wouldn't be too great either.

Also, theobromine is toxic - the only reason we don't die when we eat chocolate or drink tea/coffee etc. is because we dont take enough in.

The toxic dose is calculated as so many mg of theobromine to kg body weight - i.e. in dogs its generally 300mg per kg bodyweight.

A small animal like a guinea pig, that only weighs approx 1kg, would have a very very low toxic dose.

 

[All0about0the0animals]

Pigs are lactose intolerant

 

[tylerina]

My Patchy licked my son's plate clean which had choccy cake crumbs on it once when we weren't looking hee hee! Naughty greedy piggy - thankfully there were no dire consequences of his naughty actions!

We are now more careful what we leave lying around when piggies are out!