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As someone with a dog who has been to the ER many times for accidental ingestion, I appreciate this. That said, one thing I have learned is toxicity is very muc
by appplication 3y ago
As someone with a dog who has been to the ER many times for accidental ingestion, I appreciate this. That said, one thing I have learned is toxicity is very much a sliding scale. Some plants are toxic in the sense that they will make your pet mild/moderately sick. Others are life threatening.
It’s probably not information you could easily add. But having access to information that differentiates between toxic meaning diarrhea vs toxic meaning likely fatal would be incredible useful to dog owners. Of course this is also likely dose/body weight relative as well.
Similarly, there is also a lot of misinformation out in social media and random blogs about toxicity. There are many common houseplants that your pet probably shouldn’t eat, but only a few are actually alarming if they do. We’ve learned just because you can find something at the top of Google doesn’t make it true, and for some reason plant toxicity is really subject to a lot of misinformation.
- itsnotchester 3y agoall information is from the ASPCA's website. as i'm not an animal healthcare professional, i'm refraining from adding any additional information myself. that said, the "Clinical signs" section of each item might give u a little more information about how toxic the plant is