Dogs like to eat nearly everything they see you eat, including chocolate. So, putting candy out in a dish for guests to enjoy is often more temptation than they can bear. Do not test your dog's will-power on something that could be fatal if ingested.
Chocolate is ecstacy to humans and poison to dogs.
Oh, they like it. They'll eat it and eat it and eat it. And therein lies the problem. At Easter, a large basket arrived in the mail for Jolene. It was filled with candy, cookies, taffy, a bunny, a cellphone and chocolate - lots of chocolate.