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Poisons & Plants to Avoid

Foods to avoid	Reasons to avoid
Alcoholic beverages	Can cause intoxication, coma, and death.
Baby food	Can contain onion powder, which can be toxic to dogs. (Please see onion below.) Can also result in nutritional deficiencies, if fed in large amounts.
Bones from fish, Cooked bones from poultry, or other meat sources	Can cause obstruction or laceration of the digestive system.
Cat food	Generally too high in protein and fats.
Chocolate, coffee, tea, and other caffeine	Contain caffeine, theobromine, or theophylline, which can be toxic and affect the heart and nervous systems
Citrus oil extracts	Can cause vomiting.
Fat trimmings	Can cause pancreatitis.
Grapes and raisins	Contain an unknown toxin, which can damage the kidneys.
Hops	Unknown compound causes panting, increased heart rate, elevated temperature, seizures, and death.
Human vitamin supplements containing iron	Can damage the lining of the digestive system and be toxic to the other organs including the liver and kidneys.
Large amounts of liver	Can cause Vitamin A toxicity, which affects muscles and bones.
Macadamia nuts	Contain an unknown toxin, which can affect the digestive and nervous systems and muscle.
Marijuana	Can depress the nervous system, cause vomiting, and changes in the heart rate.
Milk and other dairy products	Some adult dogs and cats do not have sufficient amounts of the enzyme lactase, which breaks down the lactose in milk. This can result in diarrhea. Lactose-free milk products are available for pets.
Mouldy or spoiled food, garbage	Can contain multiple toxins causing vomiting and diarrhea and can also affect other organs.
Mushrooms	Can contain toxins, which may affect multiple systems in the body, cause shock, and result in death.
Onions (raw, cooked, or powder)	Contain sulfoxides and disulfides, which can damage red blood cells and cause anemia. Cats are more susceptible than dogs.
Persimmons	Seeds can cause intestinal obstruction and enteritis.
Pits from peaches and plums	Can cause obstruction of the digestive tract.
Potato, rhubarb, and tomato leaves; potato and tomato stems	Contain oxalates, which can affect the digestive, nervous, and urinary systems. This is more of a problem in livestock.
Raw egg yolks	Contain an enzyme called avidin, which decreases the absorption of biotin (a B vitamin). This can lead to skin and hair coat problems. Raw eggs may also contain Salmonella.
Raw fish	Can result in a thiamine (a B vitamin) deficiency leading to loss of appetite, seizures, and in severe cases, death. More common if raw fish is fed regularly.
Salt	If eaten in large quantities it may lead to electrolyte imbalances.
String	Can become trapped in the digestive system; called a "string foreign body."
Sugary foods	Can lead to obesity, dental problems, and possibly diabetes mellitus.
Table scraps (in large amounts)	Table scraps are not nutritionally balanced. They should never be more than 10% of the diet. Fat should be trimmed from meat; bones should not be fed.
Tobacco	Contains nicotine, which affects the digestive and nervous systems. Can result in rapid heart beat, collapse, coma, and death.
Yeast dough	Can expand and produce gas in the digestive system, causing pain and possible rupture of the stomach or intestines.

		Plants to avoid
Aloe Vera Amaryllis Apple (seeds) Apricot (pit) Arrowhead Asparagus Fern Avocado Autumn Crocus Azalea	Baneberry Begonia Bird of Paradise Black Locust Black Walnut Bleeding Heart Boston Ivy	Caladium California Poppy Calla Lily Carnation Castor Bean Ceriman Cherry (seeds, wilting leaves, and pit) Chinese Evergreen Chives Christmas Rose Chrysanthemum Clematis Corn Plant Crocus Croton Crown of Thorns Crown Vetch Cyclamen	Daffodil Delphinium Devil's Ivy Dicentra Dieffenbachia Donkey Tail Dumb Cane Dutchman's Breeches	Easter Lily Elderberry Elephant Ears English Ivy Eucalyptus
Fiddle-leaf Fig Florida Beauty Four O'Clock Foxglove Foxtail Fruit Salad Plant	German Ivy Gladiola	Hemlock Holly Honeysuckle Hurricane Plant Hyacinth Hydrangea	Iris Ivy	Jack in the Pulpit Japanese Yew Jerusalem Cherry Jimson Weed Jonquil
Kalanchoe	Lamb's quarter Lantana Larkspur Laurel Lily Lily of the Valley Lobelia Locoweed Lords-and-Ladies Lupine	Marigold (Marsh Marigold) Marijuana Mayapple Mexican Breadfruit Milkweed Mistletoe Monkshood Morning Glory Mother-in-Law plant Mother-in-Law's Tongue Mountain Laurel Mushrooms	Narcissus Nephthytis Nightshade	Oak Tree (buds and acorns) Oleander Onion
Peace Lily Peach (wilting leaves and pits) Pencil Tree Philodendron Pigweed Poinsettia Poison Ivy Poison Hemlock Poison Oak Poison Sumac Poppy Potato (all green parts) Pothos Precatory Bean	Rhododendron Rhubarb Ribbon Cactus Rubber Tree	Sago Palm Schefflera Shamrock Plant Snake Plant Snow on the Mountain Sorghum Star of Bethlehem Stinging Nettle Stinkweed Swiss Cheese Plant	Taro Vine Toadstools Tobacco Tomato Plant (entire plant except ripe fruit)	Umbrella Tree
Water Hemlock Weeping Fig Wisteria	Yew

Drugs to avoid	Source	Toxic Dose - call vet!!
Acetaminophen	Tylenol, Allerest, Anacin-3, Comtrex, Dayquil, Nyquil, SineAid, SineOff, Vanquish, and numerous other products that contain acetaminophen.	Dogs: 45 mg per pound of body weight. Cats: 22 mg per pound of body weight.
Amphetamine	Amphetamines are illegal drugs also known as speed or uppers. Other drug agents in this class include methamphetamines, phenmetrazine, and mephentermine. There are some legal uses for amphetamines in human medicine.	Death has been noted with the ingestion of 0.59 mg of methamphetamine per pound of body weight.
Antihistamines & Decongestants	Diphenhydramine, (Benadryl, Sominex, Nytol, Sleep-Eze, various cough preparations), clemastine (Tavist), brompheniramine and chlorpheniramine (Chlor-Trimeton and various cough preparations), dimenhydrinate (Dramamine), meclizine (Bonine), cyclizine (Marezine), terfenadine (Seldane), hydroxyzine (Atarax, Vistaril), and loratidine (Claritin).	Varies depending upon the product.
Aspirin	Aspirin, Pepto-Bismol, and many other pain and fever medications.	Dogs: 22 mg per pound per day. Cats: 11 mg per pound per day, may see symptoms after one dose.
Cocaine	Pets may gain exposure by eating bags of cocaine, sniffing the drug, or ingesting or licking drug paraphenalia such as used facial tissues.	Varies depending on type and concentration.
Iron	Nutritional supplements such as vitamin-mineral preparations with iron, injections of iron, and plant fertilizer	Varies depending on source and route of exposure.
Marijuana	Hashish, marijuana, and hemp, Cannabis.	Depends on the concentration of THC and the form of marijuana ingested.
Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs)	Many analgesics, fever medications, and anti-inflammatory medications such as ibuprofen (Motrin, Advil, Nuprin, Vick's DayQuil), indomethacin, piroxicam (Feldene), phenylbutazone (Bute and Butazolidin), and naproxen (Naprosyn and Aleve). Veterinary NSAIDs include products such as Aspirin, carprofen (Rimadyl), ketoprofen, and etodolac (EtoGesic).	Varies with each medication and species. Example: Ibuprofen is toxic at 22-50 mg per pound of body weight.
Sodium Phosphate Enemas	Fleet enemas	Over 25 pounds of body weight - 4 fl. oz Less than 25 pounds of body weight - 2 fl. oz.
Tricyclic Antidepressants	Medications such as imipramine, desimipramine, trimipramine, amitriptyline, and doxepin. Trade names include Asendin, Elavil, Endep, Etrafon, Limbitrol, Ludiomil, Norpramin, Pamelor, Sinequan, Tofranil, Triavil, and Vivactil.	Varies depending upon the specific TCA.
Zinc	Pennies made since 1982, zinc oxide skin preparations such as Desitin, and galvanized metal such as nails and staples. Other sources include calamine lotion, suppositories, shampoos, zinc undecylenate (Desenex), sunblock containing zinc oxide, fertilizers, and paint	Varies depending on form of zinc and time period of exposure

Reprinted with permission of Wendy Wheat, Rhumderry Havanese.

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