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Poisonous Plants and Your Pet With the return of warm spring and summer days also comes the vibrant color of plant life. Along with this also comes the risk of your pet ingesting a potentially poisonous plant. Poisonous plants can mean disaster for your dog or cat.
The following is a list of potential toxic plants. If your pet ingests any of the following plants, you should contact the Animal Hospital of Mchenry at 815-385-7096.
* please note: this list is not all inclusive
The ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center, an operating division of theAmerican Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), is the onlyanimal-oriented poison control center in North America. It is a unique, emergency hotlineproviding 24-hour-a-day, 7-day-a-week telephone assistance. The Center's hotlineveterinarians can quickly answer questions about toxic chemicals, dangerous plants,products or substances found in our everyday surroundings that can prove poisonousor fatal to animals. ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center
Other Springtime Precautions for Your Pets As spring and Easter approach people fill their homes with lively and colorful plants and decorations. These new things can be very attractive and hazardous to pets. Many spring decorative planters contain chives, and other plants that are very toxic to pets. Lilies are known to cause severe toxicity and often death if ingested. Also decorations such as grasses that are used to line easter baskets, and ribbons and strings and be very tempting to cats and can severely damage your cats intestines if ingested. Chocolate toxicity is a particular concern during the Easter Holiday. It is best if your pet is never offered any chocolate at all. That way he may never develop a taste for chocolate. Baker's (unsweetened) chocolate is much more toxic than milk chocolate. Depending on the animal, 1 ounce of milk chocolate per pound of body weight can be fatal for your dog or cat. It only takes 0.1 ounce of baker's chocolate per pound for the same effect. |
Animal Hospital of McHenry 
815-385-7096
