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Foxgloves, toxicity and pets

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  • BenDoverBenDover Posts: 488
    Animals generally have an innate ability to know what's not good for them.  Humans on the other hand...  

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    BenDover said:
    Animals generally have an innate ability to know what's not good for them.  Humans on the other hand...  

    the cat which tried to fight with a car outside my house last didn't know what was good for him. 
    The car won hands down.
    Devon.
  • BenDoverBenDover Posts: 488
    Hostafan1 said:
    BenDover said:
    Animals generally have an innate ability to know what's not good for them.  Humans on the other hand...  

    the cat which tried to fight with a car outside my house last didn't know what was good for him. 
    The car won hands down.
    I was, of course, referring to animals and plants. 
  • GemmaJFGemmaJF Posts: 2,286
    edited July 2020
    BenDover said:
    Animals generally have an innate ability to know what's not good for them.  Humans on the other hand...  

    Slug pellets

    Rodent bait

    Weed killer

    Insecticide

    Plants

    Ethylene Glycol

    Just some of the very long list of things that regularly poison cats. I wouldn't assume they know what is good for them, doubt they read the hazard warnings on the labels.

    I mostly do not use chemicals, but we do have an old drive that we use weedkiller on perhaps once or twice a year. Cats are immediately drawn to the smell of it, always let neighbours know if I was planning to use it.

    Ethylene Glycol is famous for the fact cats think it is delicious, usually fatal.
  • BenDoverBenDover Posts: 488
    GemmaJF said:
    BenDover said:
    Animals generally have an innate ability to know what's not good for them.  Humans on the other hand...  

    Slug pellets

    Rodent bait

    Weed killer

    Insecticide

    Plants

    Ethylene Glycol

    Just some of the very long list of things that regularly poison cats. I wouldn't assume they know what is good for them, doubt they read the hazard warnings on the labels.

    I mostly do not use chemicals, but we do have an old drive that we use weedkiller on perhaps once or twice a year. Cats are immediately drawn to the smell of it, always let neighbours know if I was planning to use it.

    Ethylene Glycol is famous for the fact cats think it is delicious, usually fatal.
    Confused when and where you’d use antifreeze in the garden. 🤔
  • GemmaJFGemmaJF Posts: 2,286
    edited July 2020
    BenDover said:
    GemmaJF said:
    BenDover said:
    Animals generally have an innate ability to know what's not good for them.  Humans on the other hand...  

    Slug pellets

    Rodent bait

    Weed killer

    Insecticide

    Plants

    Ethylene Glycol

    Just some of the very long list of things that regularly poison cats. I wouldn't assume they know what is good for them, doubt they read the hazard warnings on the labels.

    I mostly do not use chemicals, but we do have an old drive that we use weedkiller on perhaps once or twice a year. Cats are immediately drawn to the smell of it, always let neighbours know if I was planning to use it.

    Ethylene Glycol is famous for the fact cats think it is delicious, usually fatal.
    Confused when and where you’d use antifreeze in the garden. 🤔
    Don't a lot of people have a car on a drive? Do cooling systems often have minor leaks? Could someone spill a little when topping up their coolant reserve bottle?

    Believe it or not, there are people who put it in water features, such as rills and fountains, to stop them freezing.

    It's well known cats often get access to it. 

    It's the difference of seeing it from the other side, of having worked in a veterinary hospital, cat poisoning is common, happens everyday and ethylene glycol is a very common culprit.
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    I have just spoken to my neighbour who’s a vet. She said in over 20 years’ practice in small animal work the only incidences she has seen of cats being poisoned by plants was due to lily pollen. Dogs, on the other hand who eat first and then ask questions, ....
    Rutland, England
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    I think more humans are poisoned by ethylene glycol, than cats.
    It is often used in hooky alcohol.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • BenDoverBenDover Posts: 488
    punkdoc said:
    I think more humans are poisoned by ethylene glycol, than cats.
    It is often used in hooky alcohol.
    Or wines from Austria I seem to recall... 1985 vintage I believe. Anyone for a top up? Nicely chilled 🍷🍷🍷 
  • GemmaJFGemmaJF Posts: 2,286
    punkdoc said:
    I think more humans are poisoned by ethylene glycol, than cats.
    It is often used in hooky alcohol.
    Good job you are Doctor and not a vet

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