Your Easter plans should not include a trip to the emergency pet hospital.
Holiday items may draws smiles from your little ones, but can be dangerous to your pet. You want to make sure they don’t eat or swallow something that can be harmful.
For instance, lilies, including Easter lilies, can make pets sick or kill them.
BluePearl Veterinary Partners offers these tips:
• Chocolate is harmful to dogs. It can induce vomiting, diarrhea and in extreme cases an increased heart rate and seizures. Dogs are even worse than humans at peeling away the armor of foil that encases chocolate Easter eggs and bunnies. A dog’s solution is to wolf down everything, but all that foil could cause a blockage in a dog’s stomach or intestines.
• Don’t assume that sugar-free sweets are safe for pets, especially if they include xylitol. This sweetener shows up in everything from sugar-free chewing gum to some kinds of reduced-fat peanut butters, and it’s 100 times more toxic to dogs than chocolate.
• Pay attention to the plastic grass. . This frilly, stringy stuff is just the kind of thing cats like to play with, but it’s not meant to be swallowed.
• At any big family gathering, someone tends to leave a purse on the floor. Pets treat them like goodie bags, and sometimes gobble down harmful medicines, chewing gum with harmful xylitol, and even e-cigarettes.
• Also, if family and friends stop over, it’s easy for pets to slip outside. Keep track of them, so they don’t get out and get lost.
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