• Question: Why are a lot of animals allergic to chocolate? Why do some need chocolate specifically made for that animal? (For example: gerbil chocolate)?

    Asked by anawesomepersonlol to Sam on 24 Jun 2013.
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      Sam Geen answered on 24 Jun 2013:

      Animals are not allergic to chocolate – rather, chocolate is *toxicMATOMO_URL There’s a compound called xanthine in chocolate, which doesn’t harm humans but does hurt animals like dogs. You can buy chocolate with the xanthine taken out, or have a similar thing that doesn’t have xanthine in (for example, carob tastes a bit like chocolate and is often eaten by humans as a replacement).

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