I’ve wondered about this for a little while and a recent thread about the toxic affects of Chocolate on dogs brought it to my attention.
Hypotheicaly, if you were in a werewolf novel/movie, and you wanted to kill it, could you just feed it a big, rich chocolate cake and watch it die in agony? Or would it finish off the cake, and then look at you as if to say “I don’t normally eat dessert before the main course, but in your case, I’ll make an exception”?
I’ll divide this into two senarios.
The creature is in wolf form, and is either caged(a test) or running free(a distrction or trap).
The creature is in human form, and doesn’t realize you know his/her dirty little secret. You invite him/her to a party/dinner and somehow get him to eat the cake.
Well, I’d think that chocolate wouldn’t hurt him in his human form, with his human liver taking care of the theobromine. But it would sure be cute if, after indulging in a chocolate binge as a human, the poor guy went wolf (with a stomach still full of chocolate) and puked.
Isn’t it supposed to take a huge amount of chocolate to kill a big dog? It’d be odd if you had to feed your 150 pound werewolf 15lbs of chocolate to harm it
I’m pretty sure that werewolves still suffer from their silver “allergy” while in human form, so I’m pretty sure that, if they’re affected by chocolate as wolves, they’d still be affected as a human. (mental note: friend Harriss is “allergic” to chocolate…cut him with silver blade and see what happens).
Again, though, my dog got into the Halloween candy and ate several Kit Kats, and I’ve known other dogs who’ve eaten chocolate, and gotten nothing more than a tummy ache. So, aside from buying you a bit more time while the werewolf stops to suffer from severe lower intestinal problems, I can’ t think that feeding one chocolate is going to do much good.
This site puts the amount at about two pounds for a people-sized dog.
A small dog weighing five to ten pounds can die after eating four to sixteen ounces of milk chocolate; a medium-sized dog weighing twenty to forty pounds can die after eating sixteen to thirty-two ounces; a larger dog after eating about two pounds. Individual variations do occur. Unsweetened chocolate (used for baking) contains higher concentrations of theobromine and is therefore more toxic. A large dog can die after eating just four ounces.
I like chocolate, but two pounds is an awful lot. Four ounces is doable, I suppose.
In general, werewolves appear to suffer no lasting ill effects from ingesting chocolate. The same cellular restructuring mechanisms that permit lycanthropic metamorphosis also provide greater resistance to toxins, pathogens and parasites, as well as an accelerated healing response to physical trauma. The larger size and greater systemic resilience of the werewolf relative to the domestic dog would seem to argue against the likelihood of theobromine toxicity in the former.
This is not to say that chocolate has no effect on werewolves, however. Chocolate contains caffiene as well as the aforementioned theobromine, both of which are stimulants. As a side effect of their unique metabolism, werewolves are acutely sensitive to a variety of stimulants, exposure to which can potentially induce partial or complete acyclic (premature) metamorphosis. This is one reason why werewolves tend to avoid caffienated beverages such as coffee or tea. While not dangerous in and of themselves, their stimulant effect can lead to awkward social situations to say the least. The stimulant effect of milk chocolate is too mild to pose much of a problem (at least in moderate amounts), but consuming an excess of dark or baker’s chocolate could very well trigger the change. With chocolate, as in all things, let moderation be your watchword.
Someone mentioned werewolve’s allergy to silver. Did anyone see the British film Dog Soldiers, in which a commando unit on training manuvers in Scotland runs afoul of a pack of werewolves? They manage to hole up in a farm house that is actually the home of the werewolves when they are in human form. They search the house for things to use in defending themselves(besides their own weapons) and someone looks through the tableware drawer. Another person responds to their quest with “No self-respecting werewolf would keep silver in the house!”
that was a good line, and a much better flick then Darkwolf, which blew. Also, it was not silver but some kind of synthesized plant extract that stopped lycanthropy in it’s tracks. Interesting…
Wonder if my local GNC carries that one.
