What happens when a dog eats a sugar cookie?

If your dog has snatched a sugar cookie or another dessert that is high in sugar, butter, and flour but doesn’t have the above ingredients, it’s probably not toxic, though unhealthy. Refined sugar isn’t the best for your pet, but your dog will likely be all right.

Can a dog survive eating a chocolate chip cookie?

No. The main ingredients in chocolate chip cookies are not good for dogs, including chocolate, wheat flour, and sugar. In particular, chocolate is toxic to dogs because it contains methylxanthines like caffeine and theobromine, which dogs cannot break down like we can.

Will 1 chocolate chip hurt a dog?

Threat to pets It’s the dose that makes the poison! Pets that ingest a few MMs or 1-2 bites of a chocolate chip cookie are unlikely to develop chocolate poisoning. For milk chocolate, any ingestion of more than 0.5 ounces per pound of body weight may put dogs at risk for chocolate poisoning.