"very dangerous" is a stretch. It's mainly large quantities of dark chocolate we need to be concerned with. Milk chocolate won't give them much more than a touch of diarrhea. Incomplete list of things that are way worse for dogs than chocolate: onions, garlic, lavender, grapes (especially raisins), xilitol (commonly found in peanut butter), avocado, cooked bones (especially poultry but any bone can become brittle when cooked).

[–] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

way worse for dogs than chocolate

we're talking about cats

also i have never heard of xylitol in peanut butter; is this some american thing? I have sometimes seen sweetened peanut butter but I don't eat it, it tastes bad. I suppose there would be demand for sugar free sweetened peanut butter

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The post I replied to mentioned both dogs and cats. I don't know a ton about cats and can't comment on them but this "chocolate is the worst thing for dogs" trope is dangerous and I try to correct it whenever I can.