Plants that can kill your pets

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

The world's largest animal protection organization, the United States Animal Welfare Society (HSUS), has published a list of dangerous plants for pets. They produce hazardous amounts of substances that are toxic to animals. The consequences can be different: from nausea to death. Below is a list of the most common plants that can cause toxic reactions in animals.

It is not uncommon for cats and dogs to chew flowers and grass. This can be caused by a lack of certain substances in the body, and sometimes by simple curiosity. At the same time, there is an opinion that animals instinctively sense danger. But over the years of living next to a person, they have lost the ability to recognize what is useful and what is poisonous.

Eating or, for example, licking toxic plants can cause serious poisoning, allergies, and even death in cats, dogs, parrots, hamsters and other pets. Here is what an expert veterinarian Anna Kondratyeva thinks about this.

Anna Kondratyeva Veterinarian

Cat owners should be especially attentive to the cultivation of flowers at home. These animals love to eat cereal plants, such as cyperus, pogonaterum. But there are times when cats eat poisonous flowers that do not pose a danger to humans. At first, after chewing on a leaf, the cat feels great, but poisons can have a delayed effect and accumulate in the animal's body. Therefore, it is better not to keep dangerous flowers in the apartment where the cats are.

Here are the most dangerous plants.

Plant	Dangerous part	Plant type
Prayer abrus	Seeds	Tree vine
Azalea	Whole plant	Cultivated and wild shrub
Aconite, or wrestler	Roots, leaves, seeds	Garden flower
Arisema, or odnoprovnitsa	The whole plant, especially leaves and roots	Wild flower
Aster forest	Whole plant	Wild flower
Astragalus	Whole plant	Wild flower
Autumnal crocus	Whole plant	Garden flower
Belladonna, or belladonna ordinary	The whole plant, especially seeds and roots	Garden grass
Common privet	Leaves, berries	Ornamental shrub
Bobovnik, or laburnum	Flowers, seeds, beans	Bush
Hemlock spotted	Leaves, stems, fruits	Field grass
Black elderberry	Leaves, roots, buds	Wood
Woolly bukharnik	Leaves	Field grass
Vech poisonous, or cicuta	The whole plant, especially the rhizome	Wild flower, grass
Voronet	Berries, roots	Grass
Wolfberry, or wolf, or wolf bast	Leaves, berries	Bush
Gelsemia evergreen	Flowers, leaves	Ornamental plant
Heteromeles tree-leaved, or toyon	Leaves	Bush
Hyacinth	Bulbs	Wild and garden plant
Wisteria, or wisteria	Pods, seeds	Ornamental shrub
Highlander, or buckwheat	Juice	Grass
Mustard, or synapis	Seeds	Wild flower
Dereza ordinary, or Berber dereza	Leaves, shoots	Decorative liana
Dieffenbachia spotted	Whole plant	Home plant
Dicenter nodular	Roots, leaves	Wild and garden flower
Curly tree plier	The whole plant, especially the berries	Liana
Oak	Shoots, leaves	Wood
Datura ordinary, or stinking dope	The whole plant, especially the seeds	Grass
Larkspur, or delphinium, or spur	The whole plant, especially the shoots	Wild flower
Zygadenus	Leaves, stems, seeds, flowers	Grass
Morning glory	Seeds, roots	Decorative flower
Iris, or iris	Leaves, roots	Garden flower
Caladium	Whole plant	Home plant
Potato	Sprouts	Garden culture
Castor oil plant	The whole plant, especially the beans	Home plant
Field bedbug	Seeds	Grass
Taro	Whole plant	Home plant
Horse Chestnut, or Stomach, or Aesculus	Crohn, nuts and seeds	Wood
Crotalaria	Whole plant	Wild flower
Doll, or agrostemma	Seeds	Wild flower, weed
Laurel	Leaves	Bush
American lakonos, or American phytolacca	Roots, seeds, berries	Field plant
Lily of the valley	Leaves, flowers	Wild flower
Lantana	Leaves	Garden flower
Daylily, or krasodnev	The whole plant is dangerous for cats	Garden flower
Long-flowered lily	The whole plant is dangerous for cats	Garden flower
Daurian moonseed	Fruits, roots	Liana
Buttercup	The whole plant, especially the leaves	Wild flower
Lupine	Seeds, beans	Bush
Mancinella, or Manzinilla, or Manchinella	Juice, fruits	Wood
Melia acedarah, or klokochina	Berries	Wood
Euphorbia beautiful, or poinsettia	Leaves, stems, flowers	Home plant
Euphorbia fringed, or rich bride	Juice	Ornamental shrub
Hellebore black	Root shoots, leaves	Garden flower
Digitalis or digitalis	Leaves	Garden flower
Narcissus	Bulbs	Garden flower
Oleander	Leaves	Ornamental shrub
Mistletoe	Berries	Bush
Holly, or holly	Berries	Bush
Caroline nightshade	The whole plant, especially the berries	Weed
False nightshade	Unripe fruits, leaves	Bush
Spring primrose, or spring primrose	The whole plant, especially leaves and stems	Wild flower
Ivy	The whole plant, especially leaves and berries	Decorative liana
Podophyllum, or nogolist	Unripe fruits, roots, leaves	Wild plant
Poultry	Whole plant	Wild flower
Rhubarb	Leaves	Garden culture
Field radish, or wild radish	Seeds	Wild flower
Robinia pseudoacacia, or robinia pseudoacacia	The whole plant, especially bark and shoots	Wood
Rhododendron	Leaves	Ornamental shrub
Ryzhik	Seeds	Wild grass
Sago palm	The whole plant, especially the seeds	Ornamental shrub
Sanguinaria, or wolf foot	The whole plant, especially the stem and roots	Wild flower
Boxwood evergreen, or Caucasian palm	The whole plant, especially the leaves	Ornamental shrub
Symplocarpus smelly	The whole plant, especially roots, leaves	Swamp plant
Strelitzia, or strelitzia	Sepal	Garden flower
Sorghum	Leaves	Cultivated and wild-growing grass
Tobacco	Leaves	Cultivated plant
Tevetia Peruvian	The whole plant, especially the leaves	Garden plant
Yew	Bark, leaves, seeds	Wood
Tricuspin, or sviten, or swamp	Leaves	Swamp grass
Thousand Heads	Seeds	Wild flower
Philodendron	Whole plant	Home plant
Birch cercocarpus	Leaves	Bush
Hellebore	Roots, leaves, seeds	Decorative flower
Virginia bird cherry	Leaves, berries, seeds	Bush
Late bird cherry, or American cherry	Leaves, seeds	Wood
Apple tree	Seeds	Fruit tree
Jatropha	Seeds	Bush

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Plants of the following families are most often dangerous for animals: amaryllis, aroid, kutrovy, nightshade and euphorbia.

Anna Kondratyeva Veterinarian

Indoor plants that emit volatile organic compounds include, for example, oleander. It is completely saturated with poison. With him you need to be very careful not only for animals, but also for people. Also among the flowering plants, gloriosa, sedum, adenium, coleus, azalea, cyclamen, ivy, caladium, philodendron and shefflera should be noted.

Autumnal crocus

Vyoh

Azalea

Caladium

Larkspur

Buttercup

How to keep pets safe

The first and most obvious is to give up poisonous plants. Even if pets don't show interest in them.

The second is to keep plants in separate rooms, for example, on a balcony or loggia, and also to teach pets to the fact that green in a pot is inviolable.

Anna Kondratyeva Veterinarian

Offer your pets a safe alternative. For example, germinate seeds of cereal plants at home: oats, wheat, rye, or barley. You can buy already sprouted grass at a pet store, but in this case, you need to carefully choose a bona fide supplier. Also, make sure your pet's diet is balanced in micronutrients and fiber-rich vitamins.

Ivy

Morning glory

Long-flowered lily

Hyacinth

Lupine

Iris

What to do if a pet ate a poisonous plant

In veterinary practice, poisoning of animals with indoor plants in recent years has become much less common. Perhaps this is due to the fact that most of the owners have transferred their pets to dry complete feed and the animals have reduced the need for roughage and an additional source of microelements and vitamins.

However, if the animal nevertheless ate unknown greens and you have reason to believe that the plant is toxic, then it is necessary to induce vomiting in the pet and immediately consult a veterinarian.

Philodendron

Rhododendron

Euphorbia edged