My dog ate Reese's cups and foil, now throwing up. What should I do?
Updated On September 23rd, 2025
Pet's info: Dog | Dachshund | Male | neutered | 9 years and 6 months old | 19 lbs
My dachshund ate a full bag of Reese’s cups last night. Foil and all! He is throwing up foil balls now. Is there anything else I can do?
2 Answers
Most Helpful Answer
Published on April 7th, 2018
Oh no, it's not good that MJ ate an entire bag of Reese's cups! While one doesn't contain a lot of chocolate, an entire bag of them may be enough to cause chocolate toxicity, one sign of which is vomiting. Because of this and his currently symptoms, I would take him into a vet immediately for treatment. He needs decontamination procedures in case he is suffering from chocolate toxicity. There is also the potential that enough foils could cause a GI blockage, and that needs to be ruled in or out as well. Either take him into your normal vet or find an ER vet clinic or vet on call if your normal vet is closed. Best of luck!
1Pet Parents found this answer helpful
Related Answers from Veterinarians
-
Published on February 17th, 2018
Oh my, that wasn't good that Hudson ate all that chocolate! If he ate half of a 3.17 ounce bar of milk chocolate, that's 1.6 ounces. At his weight, that about of chocolate will cause a minimal to no reaction. Add in the two giant Reese's cups, and I would suspect you may at most see a minimal reaction. Do NOT induce vomiting, I never recommend doing it at home. Not only is there a high risk of aspiration, but hydrogen peroxide can and does cause gastritis and esophagitis often worse than the presenting problem. Given that he most likely will have a minimal reaction, I would monitor him for now. Keep in mind that it can take up to 24 hours for signs of chocolate toxicity to appear. If you do see a reaction in the form of vomiting, diarrhea, or upset stomach, withhold food for 12-24 hours, then feed a bland diet of boiled white meat chicken (no bones) and white rice in small amounts several times a day for a couple of days. Then slowly add back in his normal diet. If the vomiting continues in the absence of food, he vomits the bland diet, the diarrhea continues on the bland diet, he stops drinking water, starts vomiting water, or becomes very lethargic, he will need to see a vet right away. Good luck, I hope this helps!
1Pet Parents found this answer helpful
Should I induce vomiting on my 11 lb dachshund who eat a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, wrapper and all
I have 2 large dogs (110 and 100 pounds). One or both ate about 5-6 Reeses Peanut Butter egss sometime today (or possibly yesterday but I think today). They are acting fine. Do I need to make them vomit?
My dog ate 6 reeses cups, he is 10 lbs and I know it’s mostly peanut butter but I can’t induce vomiting and I am very scared even though he is acting fine. I would guess it’s 1.5 ounces of chocolate overall.
My dog weighs about 21 pounds he ate about 4 mini Reese’s hearts which would be about 2 regular size Reese’s I’m estimating? It was about 40 minutes ago and he is acting normal. Should I take him to a vet?
My dog ate around 11 to 12 ounces of chocolate M&Ms with in the past two hours. I've given him hydrogen Prock side in which he is throwing up a little bit but not a tremendous amount. My bad is supposed to call me back but I'm just a little bit of c
My Dog ate chocolate a little over half Of a 3.17 oz bar milk choc bar and two of the big cup Reeses. Hes acting totally fine. Like is happy and jumping around like normal I don't I know what to do. I have an emergency kit for accidental poisioning b
My dog ate some chocolate last night, but I didn't find out til this morning. She threw up once, not sure when, which had candy and wrappers (milky way, snickers, 100 grand, m&me, and york). She's been lethargic all day but she's a bit better now tha
I have a Pomeranian male dog and he is probably between 8-15 pounds and he ate 5 pieces of choclate. He keeps throwing up a lot and he keeps shivering which is not normal because he doesn't shiver much since he has a lot of hair and its really hot ri
My dog ate six little Hershey’s nuggets on Wednesday and now she is throwing up today what should we do?
70lb dog ate four Reese cups
Book an appointment with the pros – our expert vets are here to help.
