Human medications top the list of group's top 10 toxins
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from:msnbc.comPets poisoned by your pills, group says
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This has happened a few times with my dog. She's naturally incredibly curious so if she manages to find anything plastic and chewable, she'll start chomping on it... and the contents inside.
The best advice that can be given in a situation like that is to figure out how long it had been since the dog ingested it, and if it was within the last 15-20 minutes - do everything you can to get your dog to vomit. Hydrogen peroxide (a teaspoon each 10 pounds of your dog's weight), fingers down their throat (although during one incident this led to a fairly painful bite from my bewildered dog) - anything. If it doesn't get into the stomach to start ingestion, you don't have to worry about the after effects. If you're not sure how long or if you think it's been a while, get to a pet ER immediately. It might cost you a pretty penny but you really have to weigh that against the guilt you'll have for killing your companion.
Ah yes, I've used the hydrogen peroxide method. You haven't really lived until you've cleaned up gallons of dark chocolate dog barf!
Many years ago, before anyone told us chocolate was bad for dogs, my little dog ate almost an entire box of Valentine candy. Somehow, while we were at work, she jumped from several different pieces of furniture and knocked the candy box off the top of the piano. (She must have been a "closet climber".) It was a horrible mess to clean up and she'd drank her water bowl dry. I don't think there were any ill effects to her, but guess I'll never really know for sure.
Why did the author of the article not include the animal poison control hotline phone number in the article?
It is 888-426-4435
Allowing pets to eat marijuana plants is obviously double deadly, because after they have digested the pot, they get the munchies and start rummaging through the pantry for any kind of sugar high. So sad.
Not to mention, it's kinda hard to smoke after it goes through them!
My cat would ignore his catnip for my "ganja" everytime. No matter where I would hide it my little man would be like Sherlock Holmes on the hunt. Never killed him. Just made him run around in circles.
Daa do you think, Where in the world would you not find anytype of drugs that the "animal" can't get to. NO WHERE
Please B careful, as careful as humanly possible.Our pets are our best buds.
People are poisoned by people pills, AMA and Pharmaeautical companies are the problem, use oriental medicine
Xylitol, found in sugar free gum, is also toxic for dogs. My dog jumped onto the dining room table, got into my purse, took the gum and ate about 4 or 5 pieces (I just found wrappers on the floor). I called the vet and they told me to induce vomiting and bring her right in. The vet told me that one piece can kill a 40 pound dog and she is only 10 pounds. After an overnight stay in the hospital (and $600) she was luckily okay. We no longer buy gum with Xylitol - just in case.
This has been a very helpful article. ^.^ Much appreciated!!
Thank you for clarifying how much chocolate it take to harm a dog. I've got friends who think it isn't true because they had a dog eat a pan of brownies and live. They forget that the chocolate is diluted in the brownies. It could have been a lot worse. Especially if it had been a small dog.
Thank You,
Katie Waters
Thank you for clarifying how much chocolate it take to harm a dog. I've got friends who think it isn't true because they had a dog eat a pan of brownies and live. They forget that the chocolate is diluted in the brownies. It could have been a lot worse. Especially if it had been a small dog.
Thank You,
Katie W
Beware of Sago palms and other cycad plants...they contain high amounts of cyanide and I lost a dog to them.
Additionally, one oleander leaf can kill a human adult.
Boy, Nola, you gotit. Tragically, oleanders are so prevalent in certain climate zones and are so utterly deadly. Long ago, I read an article about some folks on a weiny roast who sliced limbs from an oleander bush to cook their hot dogs over a campfire. Upon eating their hot dogs, they died so quickly, everyone was stunned. Just the small amounts of deadly chemicals from the small, oleander limbs killed them so very swiftly.
I know a lady who had horses on her private property but her property was ringed by her neighbors' oleander bushes [on her neighbors property], and these neighboring oleanders killed six of her horses! Wow.
It is wise and real smart, if every pet owner consults with his veterinarian or local poison center to determine, plants and flowers that are so very deadly to their pets. Geez, I don't even wish to breathe the air shared with oleanders, and I am much larger than most of our pets.
Once again we need to be reminded of how animals are smarter than most people. Would you arbitrarily give your children meds or food without checcking to make sure it's not harmful to them? Then don't do it with your pets. They rely on you too.
I hate it when my dog finds my stash. Then he gets the munchies and goes in the refrigerator and finds my brownies. Next thing I know, all my beer is gone and he and his dog friends are lyin around looking at Dirty Cat magazines! If he doesn't knock it off, I'm cutting him out of my will and puttin my son back in it!
Ya know, I think he has been takin the truck out at night after I go to sleep, I haven't caught him yet, but found a couple of McGruffs Magnums under the seat yesterday mornin.........hmmmmmmm.
God, I wish chocolate was my only problem.