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Poison Prevention
It is always a good time to make changes to protect your companion animals from accidental poisoning.
Note: For emergencies scroll down to “Emergency Help.”
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) provides an alert about common household products that can be dangerous and even deadly to pets. Called Chocolate, Daffodils and many Household Items Can Poison Pets, the alert is available online .
According to Dr. Steve Hansen, director of the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center, medications and flea control products are some of the most frequent commercial products that poison pets.
More pet poison prevention tips are available online, and includes a list of common foods that are poisonous to pets, including some surprises such as yeast dough, coffee grounds, tomato leaves and stems, and onions. Plants For a list of specific garden plants toxic to pets, click here.
Emergency Help In an emergency call your vet and The Animal Poison Control Center’s 24-hour animal poison control center staffed by veterinarians at 888-4ANI-HELP (888-426-4435). The fee is $45 per case, including as many follow up calls as necessary, and it could save your pet’s life.
The staff of the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center are veterinary health professionals who have been trained in veterinary toxicology and the many differences between the various species of animals.
More tips are also available at Pet Poisoning Prevention.
Watch out for those avocado leaves, bittersweet, daffodils, and other plants that are toxic to animals! Make sure to know what plants you have may be toxic to your pet companions by checking the
Toxic Plant Database at the Veterinary Medicine Library at University of Illinois. For an introduction to the University of Illinois database of plants toxic to pets click here , or try the list from the Purdue University Cooperative Extension Service.
The ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center, an operating division of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) and affiliated with the University of Illinois, is the only animal-oriented poison control center in North America.
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add your comment »Thanks for spreading the word on pet toxicities!
I wanted to make you aware of another important resource out there also - Pet Poison Helpline is an additional Animal Poison Control Center, and it's one of the most cost-effective animal poison ($35/case vs. ASPCA's new $60/case) controls out there nowadays. Unfortunately, because animal poison controls are not federal- or state-funded, there is a fee to allow the service to be run 24-7. We provide a similar service, but have the added benefit of veterinary specialists (in internal medicine and emergency and critical care) as part of our staff. You can always call 1-800-213-6680 if you ever have a problem. Thanks for spreading the word!
Dr. Justine Lee, DVM, DACVECC
Associate Director of Veterinary Services
www.petpoisonhelpline.com
www.drjustinelee.com
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Another very common item that poisons hundreds to thousands of animals a year is Anti-freeze. It's sweet flavor attracts many animals cats, dogs, squirrels, etc... and leads to a very horrible death. The Anti-freeze manufactures could add a bittering agent to their product for just pennies but GREED wins again.
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I hadn't thought of that before.
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PLEASE-do ALL you can to ensure that anywhere your pet may roam is clear of common pest and/or rodent killers. I live in a highly-populated urban area near water; so, people often use traps/poisons easily bought at hardware stores. My beautiful 10.5 month-old puppy found a package in the 10 mins. or so he was gone, ate it, and brought it in for me (to show what he'd found!) The combination of paper and deliberately good-tasting (to attract animals, of course) pellets was irresistable to him. When I asked: what is in your mouth? (as all puppy owners do a hundred times daily)he gave me some paper with the words Mouse Killer on it. You can imagine how my heart nearly stopped.I rushed to call the vet. That day ice encased my car; no taxis...thank God a passing car stopped for us (most ignored my frantic hailing as I held this tiny being in a blanket...?).Anyway. The doc told me he'd be fine after a day or 2 of purging. WRONG. Anticoagulants kill over time, but this was a neurotoxin. At (a different) vet ER later that night,a doc who knew what she was doing said unfortunately,no antidotes for neurotoxins. The labels say "keep away from children and pets." Keep away??!! How about: LETHAL to most living beings?! Believe me, since I had to put my precious little one "to sleep," that night,I have seen aisles-full and can hardly stand it. No one who knows what these things can do would use them. It is a horrible death. The warnings are ridiculously inadequate.Only to let you know
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