Toxic Food and Plants
Bold wording indicates that a substance is especially dangerous and can be fatal.
Toxic Food:
Just because we eat it, does not mean our pets can.
- Bones
- Greasy poultry skin
- Gravies and sauces
- Alcohol
- Almonds
- Apricot
- Caffeine
- Cherry
- Chocolate
- Choke cherry (unripe berries)
- Elderberry (unripe berries)
- Garlic
- Grapes
- Onions
- Peaches
- Potato leaves and stems
- Rhubarb leaves
- Tomato leaves and stems
Toxic plants:
Keep your pets out of the vegetable and flower patches
- Amaryllis bulb
- Anthurium
- Autumn crocus (Colchicum autumnale)
- Azalea (entire rhododendron family)
- Begonia
- Bird of Paradise
- Bittersweet
- Bleeding heart
- Boxwood
- Bracken fern
- Buckeye
- Buttercup (Ranunculus)
- Caladium
- Calla lily
- Castor bean
- Chinese sacred or Heavenly Bamboo
- Chrysanthemum
- Clematis
- Crocus bulb
- Croton (Codiaeum sp.)
- Cyclamen bulb
- Delphinium, larkspur, monkshood
- Dumb cane (Dieffenbachia)
- English ivy (all Hedera species of ivy)
- Fig (Ficus)
- Four-o’clock (Mirabilis)
- Foxglove (Digitalis)
- Hyacinth bulbs
- Hydrangea
- Holly berries
- Iris corms
- Jack-in–the-pulpit
- Jimson weed
- Kalanchoe
- Lantana
- Lily (bulbs of most species)
- Lily-of-the-valley
- Lupine species
- Marijuana or hemp (Cannabis)
- Milkweed
- Mistletoe berries
- Morning glory
- Mountain laurel
- Narcissus, daffodil (Narcissus)
- Oleander
- Pencil cactus/plant (Euphorbia sp.)
- Philodendron (all species)
- Poinsettia
- Potato leaves and stems
- Rhubarb leaves
- Rosary pea (Arbus sp.)
- Scheffelera (umbrella plant)
- Shamrock (Oxalis sp.)
- Spurge (Erphorbia sp.)
- Tomato leaves and stems
- Yew
Reference: American Animal Hospital Association 1997
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Welcome to Mountainview Animal Hospital. We are a full service veterinary medical and surgical facility, conveniently located in the South Georgetown Centre, on the north east corner of Mountainview and Argyll Roads. Georgetown Ontario Canada, 20 minutes from Toronto and Oakville, 10 minutes north of Missisauga, 15 minutes west of Brampton, 10 minutes north east of Milton, 15 minutes east of Acton.