Dog Poisons and Dangerous Toys

 If you suspect that your pup has swallowed one of the following, contact your veterinarian immediately.

Household

  • Chocolate, In any form
  • Shampoo
  • Nail polish
  • Book matches
  • Kitchen matches
  • Laundry detergents
  • Drain cleaner
  • Paint
  • Paint thinner
  • Turpentine
  • Putty
  • Plaster

House & Garden

  • Any Insecticide or Pesticide
  • Flea collar
  • Ant traps
  • Rodent poison
  • Slug & Snail bait
  • Roach poison
  • Weed killers
  • Fertilizers
  • Keep pup off lawn after treatment
  • Most wood preservatives

Automotive

  • Battery Acid
  • Antifreeze (Ethylene Glycol) tastes sweet
  • Fuel oil
  • Brake fluid
  • Gasoline

Common plants

  • Acorn
  • Almond
  • Amaryllis
  • Angel's Trumpet
  • Appleseeds
  • Apricot pits
  • Arrowheadvine
  • Asparagus ferns
  • Avocado leaves
  • Azalea
  • Balsam Pear
  • Bird of paradise
  • Bittersweet
  • Black locust
  • Boston Ivy
  • Buttercup leaves
  • Buckeye
  • Castor bean
  • Cherry pits & leaves
  • Chinaberry
  • Caladium
  • Chrysanthemum
  • Coriaria
  • Crabapple seeds
  • Creeping Charlie
  • Creeping fig
  • Crown of thorns
  • Daffodil bulbs
  • Delphinium
  • Dieftenbachia (Dumb cane)
  • Dologeton
  • Dutchmans breeches
  • Elephant ears
  • English ivy berries
  • Flax seeds
  • Foxglove
  • Ground cherry
  • Holly
  • Horse chestnut
  • Hyacinth bulbs
  • Hydrangea leaves
  • Indian tabacco
  • Indian turnip
  • Iris leaves
  • Ivy (most varieties)
  • Jasmine
  • Jerusalem cherry
  • Jimson weed
  • Jonquil bulbs
  • Larkspur
  • Lily of the valley blooms
  • Locoweed
  • Lupin
  • Marijuana
  • Matrimony vine
  • May apple
  • Mescal bean
  • Mistletoe berries
  • Mock orange
  • Moonweed
  • Morning glory
  • Mushrooms
  • Narcissus seeds
  • Nightshade (Tomato & patato leaves and patato berries)
  • Nutmeg nuts
  • Nux vomica
  • Peach pits
  • Periwinkle
  • Peyote
  • Philodendron (all varieties)
  • Pigweed
  • Plum pits
  • Poinsettia
  • Poison hemlock
  • Pokeweed
  • Patato green tubers, leaves and berries
  • Privet
  • Rain tree (Monkey pod)
  • Rhododendron leaves
  • Rhubarb
  • Skunk cabbage
  • Soap berry
  • Spinach
  • Sweet pee seeds
  • Tomato leaves, vines
  • Tulip bulbs
  • Virginia creeper berries
  • Water hemlock
  • Weeping fig
  • Wisteria
  • Yews
  •  

Dangerous toys

  • Golf balls and similar sized balls
  • Tennis balls or similar hollow balls that can be "popped'
  • Plastic toys that can be shredded
  • The squeaker in squeaky toys
  • Rawhide, can plug up the pup's intestines
  • Hard (brittle) plastic Frisbees, can shatter a dog's teeth
  • Beer bottle caps
  • Any painted or wooden toys

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