Toxic plants for Pets and Precautions to Stop your pet from eating a plant

TOXIC PLANTS FOR DOGS

Dogs are famous for sniffing things they shouldn’t. These include not only random items on the sidewalk but flowers and plants in your garden. Some of these plants are indeed harmless, but many of them could also be dangerous and harmful to dogs. While some plants can give our little dogs just diarrhea, others could be extremely toxic and poisonous. On top of that, many of these toxic plants are pretty common in local parks, gardens, and also pretty tempting for pets. The Animal Poison Control Center (APCC) reported that in 2017, 5 percent of all calls were related to pets ingesting plants toxic to them. While the list for these toxic plants is ever-lasting, we are going to focus on the most common ones around parks, gardens, neighborhoods:

• TULIPS: Tulips are lovely flowers that many people have in their homes both indoors and outdoors. Not only tulips are toxic for dogs and can cause stomach pain, but the newly-planted bulbs also contain way more toxins. Dog owners should try to exclude tulips from their homes.
• TOMATO PLANT: Tomato plants can cause weakness, dilated pupils, gastrointestinal problems, slow heart rate. Tomato plants can be very common in summer. Although delicious, this plant can be extremely dangerous.
• ALOE VERA: Many people prefer aloe vera for their skin and hair over many other products. Some even love aloe in their juice. While aloe can be very healthy to humans, the saponins in aloe can cause vomiting, diarrhea, lethargy, tremors, and general central nervous system depression for dogs.
• LILY OF THE VALLEY: We are sure the sweet-smelling lilies are very popular. That’s why we need to let you know that even the smallest exposure to this plant can lead your dog to heart problems including disorientation, seizures, and even coma.
• GLADIOLA: Gladiola is very common since it’s one of the most important summer "bulb" crops with some production in every state. The toxins in gladiola can cause drooling, vomiting, diarrhea, and general lethargy.
• SAGO PALMS: Sago palms are toxic to all pets and the symptoms include vomiting, diarrhea, seizures, liver failure, and potential death.
• CYCLAMEN: Dogs are very likely to drool, vomit, and have diarrhea as a result of eating cyclamen. In case they eat the roots, it can affect their heart rate and can cause death as well.
• OLEANDER: Oleander can be toxic both fresh and dries. Not only dogs but all pets should be kept away from this plant.
• BEGONIA: Begonia is beautiful and common. It can also cause extreme oral irritation, excessive inflammation of the mouth. Dogs can also experience vomiting.
• AUTUMN CROCUS: Autumn Crocus contains toxins known as colchicine. Colchicine can not only cause vomit and diarrhea but its effect is very long-lasting. It can cause liver failure.
• DIEFFENBACHIA: Dieffenbachia is pretty common indoors. This plant can irritate the skin which means as a result of exposure your dog can feel as if their tongue/mouth/lip is burning, thanks to the calcium oxalate crystals (philodendrons plants have the same toxins).
• AMERICAN HOLLY: American holly is only common in some areas. It can cause vomit and diarrhea.

OTHER EXTREMELY POISONOUS PLANTS FOR DOGS ARE...

• AMARYLLIS
• AZALEA
• BABY’S BREATH
• BLACK CALLA
• CALLA LILY
• CARNATION
• CASTOR BEAN
• CHAMOMILE
• CHRYSANTHEMUM
• DAFFODIL

• DOG DAISY
• EUCALYPTUS
• GARLIC
• GLORY LILY
• GRAPEFRUIT
• IRIS
• ivy plant
• JADE PLANT
• KALANCHOE
• LAVENDER

• LEMONGRASS
• LIME MARIJUANA
• MILKWEED
• NARCISSUS
• PARSLEY
• PEACH
• PEACH LILY
• PHOTOS
• SNAKE PLANT
• YEW

TOXIC PLANTS FOR CATS

While dogs go sniffing around, cats explore and jump. This makes keeping our cats far from toxic plants a nearly impossible task. It can be challenging to pay attention to what our pets eat, sniff, and get exposed to. Some emergency centers and vets suggest at least learn the names of the most toxic plants and how to identify them. The toxicity of different plants can reach from mild to severe levels. It is important to keep all the toxic plants out of the house and to keep cats from reaching them. Some toxic plants for cats are:

• NARCISSUS(including Daffodils): This plant contains a toxic agent lycorine. It has the most toxic bulbs. Lycorine causes drooling, vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal pain. When cats get exposed to any plant in the Narcissus plant family, in some cases they can have breathing issues, low blood pressure, arrhythmia.
• KALANCHOE: Kalanchoe is a very common houseplant. Some people may also call in mother-in-law plant, devil’s backbone, chandelier. All parts of this plant contain toxins called bufadienolides, which generally cause gastrointestinal signs (drooling, vomiting, and diarrhea), according to the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center.
• LILIES: While there many plants that contain this name, there are specific lilies from this family, such as Asiatic lilies, Easter lilies, Japanese lilies, rubrum lilies, stargazer lilies, that are far too dangerous for the cat. These can cause death and kidney failure. Cats should be kept as far away from lilies as possible.
• MARIJUANA: Cannabis sativa affects the central nervous system. It can lead to coordination and focus problems, vomiting, diarrhea, eventually even coma, and seizures.
• CASTOR BEAN: Castor bean is very toxic. It can produce severe abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea. Some cases, although severe, have led to coma and death, muscle twitching, dehydration, etc.
• YEW: Yew contains poisonous parts called taxine. It can affect the nervous system in almost the same way as castor bean. Severe cases have led to death.
• ENGLISH IVY: Some people call this plant glacier ivy, needlepoint ivy, sweetheart ivy, California ivy. Ivy contains triterpenoid saponin. The saponin component can result in vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea.

OTHER EXTREMELY POISONOUS PLANTS FOR CATS ARE...

• ADAM AND EVE
• ALOE VERA
• AMARYLLIS
• ANTHURIUM
• ASPARAGUS FERN
• BARBADOS ALOE
• BIRD OF PARADISE
• BUTTERFLY IRIS

• CARNATION
• CHAMOMILE
• CHOKECHERRY
• DAFFODIL
• DRACAENA ELEPHANT EAR
• EUCALYPTUS
• GROUND APPLE
• HYACINTH

• HYDRANGEA
• LACE FERN
• MISTLETOE "AMERICAN"
• PLUMOSA FERN
• POINSETTIA
• SCHEFFLERA
• SILVER JADE PLANT

SIGNS THAT YOUR PET MAY BE EXPOSED TO A TOXIC PLANT

BREATHING DIFFICULTIES
DIARRHEA
DIFFICULTIES SWALLOWING
FREQUENT URINATION
IRREGULAR HEARTBEATIRRITATION AROUND THE MOUTH
ITCHINESS, SCRATCHING
SWELLING
VOMITING
WATERY EYES

HOW TO STOP YOUR PET FROM EATING A PLANT

Move plants out of your pets reach.
The easiest way to ensure your pet’s safety is removing the plants out of their reach by putting them on high plant stands, high tables in a trimmed, short condition.

Use a good training technique.
There are several tutorials online on how to train our pets to leave the plants alone. Some techniques involve praising your pet after they listened to you when you said “no” to touching the plants. Some devices will trigger your pets if they try to touch a plant thus frightening them to do so again.

Try pet deterrent sprays.
Deterrent sprays are safe and one bottle can hold up to 100 sprays. No matter how admired your pet is by the flowers, the spray should keep them away.

OUR SOURCES…

Central California SPCA, The 15 Most Common Poisonous Plants for Dogs, (January 26, 2017)

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ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center, 17 Plants Poisonous to Pets, (2018),

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Rodgers, L., Complete Guide to Poisonous Plants for Dogs, (July 10, 2019),

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Brown, K., Which plants are poisonous to cats? (December 6, 2019)

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Cynthia, R., Animal Emergency Center, Emergency Vet Advice, (2020),

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ASPCA, Toxic and Non-Toxic plants for pets, (2020),

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