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ANIMALS AND PLANT POISONINGS
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Animal
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Plant
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Effect
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Birds, Guinea Pigs, Mice,
Rats, Goats, Cows, Rabbits, Fish
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Avocado, seeds or leaves
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Hyper-excitability, swelling and bleeding of the
brain, lungs and liver.
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Cat
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Easter Lily
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Kidney failure.
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Cat
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Lilies (general)
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Kidney
failure and death. |
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Cat
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Dracaena
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Dilated pupils, shortness
of breath, abdominal pain, increased heart
rate, and drooling. Also, vomiting, occasionally with blood, depression,
anorexia, in-coordination, and weakness.
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Cat
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Philodendron
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Listlessness,
total kidney failure, seizures and death
in almost 50% of cats.
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Cat
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Pothos
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Kidney failure.
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Cows
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Oxalate
containing plants
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Kidney failure, decrease
in blood calcium levels, death.
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Dog
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Heavenly Bamboo
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A dog chewing on stems and
branches developed symptoms like cyanide poisoning.
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Dog
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Dracaena
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Vomiting, occasionally
with blood, depression, anorexia, drooling, in-coordination, and weakness.
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Dog
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Onions
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Destroys the blood cells
in certain dogs with a genetic disposition resulting in anemia.
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Dog
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Garlic
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Destroys the blood cells
in certain dogs with a genetic disposition resulting in anemia.
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Dog
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Schefflera
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Vomiting, in-coordination,
decrease in the white blood cell count.
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Cows, Horses
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Onions
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Anemia,
jaundice, blood in urine.
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Horses
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Oxalate containing plants
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Severe diarrhea,
dehydration and death.
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Pigs/Swine
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Amaranthus
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Weakness,
in-coordination, crawling movements, kidney damage, and tremor.
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Pigs, Livestock
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Oaks, Acorns
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Abdominal pain,
constipation, extreme thirst, frequent urination, bloody diarrhea in severe
cases as well as rapid but weak pulse, kidney and liver damage (which may
not appear for several weeks).
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Sheep
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Curly dock,
Halogeton
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Rapid, labored breathing,
depression, in-coordination and coarse tremor of the head and neck,
and kidney damage.
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