Dog Coffee?
Sunday, November 16th, 2008
darlyngirl1982 asked:
My dog just grabbed about 4 licks of my coffee before I caught him. I found online that caffeine is toxic at about 63 mg per pound of body weight. I drink espresso (made in coffee machine so not as strong) diluted with milk. So it has about 126 mg in the whole cup. So if my dog weighs 21lb he can have more than 1200mg before it would kill him. How much will make him sick? If he ever drinks a whole cup in the future should I call the vet? Or would it need like a whole pot before I call the vet?
Wow Sue B. - if my dog had drank alot of coffee he’d be a the vet. He’s 100% fine- he had like 4 licks- which is probably about 1/30 the cup. If there’s 126mg in the cup then he got about 4mg of caffeine. He would need more than 1200mg for it to be fatal. Thanks for caring though…
Cedrick
My dog just grabbed about 4 licks of my coffee before I caught him. I found online that caffeine is toxic at about 63 mg per pound of body weight. I drink espresso (made in coffee machine so not as strong) diluted with milk. So it has about 126 mg in the whole cup. So if my dog weighs 21lb he can have more than 1200mg before it would kill him. How much will make him sick? If he ever drinks a whole cup in the future should I call the vet? Or would it need like a whole pot before I call the vet?
Wow Sue B. - if my dog had drank alot of coffee he’d be a the vet. He’s 100% fine- he had like 4 licks- which is probably about 1/30 the cup. If there’s 126mg in the cup then he got about 4mg of caffeine. He would need more than 1200mg for it to be fatal. Thanks for caring though…
Cedrick