Toxic Food and Plants

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Toxic Food:

Just because we eat it, does not mean our pets can.

• Bones
• Greasy poultry skin
• Gravies and sauces
• Alcohol
• Almonds
• Apricot
• Caffeine
• Cherry
• Chocolate
• Choke cherry (unripe berries)
• Elderberry (unripe berries)
• Garlic
• Grapes
• Onions
• Peaches
• Potato leaves and stems
• Rhubarb leaves
• Tomato leaves and stems

Toxic plants:

Keep your pets out of the vegetable and flower patches

• Amaryllis bulb
• Anthurium
• Autumn crocus (Colchicum autumnale)
• Azalea (entire rhododendron family)
• Begonia
• Bird of Paradise
• Bittersweet
• Bleeding heart
• Boxwood
• Bracken fern
• Buckeye
• Buttercup (Ranunculus)
• Caladium
• Calla lily
• Castor bean
• Chinese sacred or Heavenly Bamboo
• Chrysanthemum
• Clematis
• Crocus bulb
• Croton (Codiaeum sp.)
• Cyclamen bulb
• Delphinium, larkspur, monkshood
• Dumb cane (Dieffenbachia)
• English ivy (all Hedera species of ivy)
• Fig (Ficus)
• Four-o’clock (Mirabilis)
• Foxglove (Digitalis)
• Hyacinth bulbs
• Hydrangea
• Holly berries
• Iris corms
• Jack-in–the-pulpit
• Jimson weed
• Kalanchoe
• Lantana
• Lily (bulbs of most species)
• Lily-of-the-valley
• Lupine species
• Marijuana or hemp (Cannabis)
• Milkweed
• Mistletoe berries
• Morning glory
• Mountain laurel
• Narcissus, daffodil (Narcissus)
• Oleander
• Pencil cactus/plant (Euphorbia sp.)
• Philodendron (all species)
• Poinsettia
• Potato leaves and stems
• Rhubarb leaves
• Rosary pea (Arbus sp.)
• Scheffelera (umbrella plant)
• Shamrock (Oxalis sp.)
• Spurge (Erphorbia sp.)
• Tomato leaves and stems
• Yew

Reference: American Animal Hospital Association 1997

For more information, contact The ASPCA Animal Poison Control at 1-888-426-4435 or visit their website ASPCA Animal Poison Control for advice.

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