Iris flowers and cats: toxicity?

a link with information and pictures right from the ASPCA
http://www.aspca.org/Pet-care/poison...=toxic-to-cats




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chaniarts wrote:

On 9/29/2011 11:47 AM, Bill Graham wrote:


From having lived with and around cats all of my life, and being in
many houses filled with potted plants, I think that, in general,
there are no plants found in the average home that are toxic to cats
or other pets. If there were such plants, everyone would know about
them by now, and they would be "common knowlege". Of course, any pet
might be allergic to anything, so there will always be exceptions.
In general, however, I wouldn't worry about it.

huh? there are plenty of toxic house plants available in local stores
all over that are toxic to humans, and would also be toxic to all
house pets. this is well documented.

or did you mean something else?

No. I meant exactly what I said. Why don't you assemble and give us a
list of these plants? It would be very useful to this group.

there's multiple places around on the net that have lists. some common
ones off the top of my head:

rhododendron
chrysanthemum
philodendron
daffodil
mistletoe

all of these are commonly found as house plants or purchased flowers

Don't forget lilies! They're among the worst - very deadly.

--
Joyce

May the great galactic kitten always purr you to sleep.

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chaniarts wrote:

On 9/29/2011 11:47 AM, Bill Graham wrote:


From having lived with and around cats all of my life, and being
in many houses filled with potted plants, I think that, in
general, there are no plants found in the average home that are
toxic to cats or other pets. If there were such plants, everyone
would know about them by now, and they would be "common
knowlege". Of course, any pet might be allergic to anything, so
there will always be exceptions. In general, however, I wouldn't
worry about it.

huh? there are plenty of toxic house plants available in local
stores all over that are toxic to humans, and would also be toxic
to all house pets. this is well documented.

or did you mean something else?

No. I meant exactly what I said. Why don't you assemble and give us
a list of these plants? It would be very useful to this group.

there's multiple places around on the net that have lists. some
common ones off the top of my head:

rhododendron
chrysanthemum
philodendron
daffodil
mistletoe

all of these are commonly found as house plants or purchased flowers

Don't forget lilies! They're among the worst - very deadly.

But all these grow in the garden too. They are available to any cat who ever
gets outside. Perhaps that's where the conflict arises.... I am a keeper of
outside cats. all of my cats (I currently have five) can come and go at any
time. There is no way in hell I cold keep any of them from eating any plant
they happened to come across in their daily (and nightly) meanderings
through the neighborhood. As a matter of fact, I had one die this Summer
from eating/drinking "Round-up", which is a weed killer my neighbor used on
his back lawn, and which contaminated a water supply that my cat was
accustomed to using. But this is rare, and I have never lost any cat from
eating a plant. Cats are normally carnivores and outside of taking small
tasts of stuff I eat, will not normally eat much of anything thats
vegitable.

On 9/29/2011 7:21 PM, Bill Graham wrote:
wrote:
chaniarts wrote:

On 9/29/2011 11:47 AM, Bill Graham wrote:


From having lived with and around cats all of my life, and being
in many houses filled with potted plants, I think that, in
general, there are no plants found in the average home that are
toxic to cats or other pets. If there were such plants, everyone
would know about them by now, and they would be "common
knowlege". Of course, any pet might be allergic to anything, so
there will always be exceptions. In general, however, I wouldn't
worry about it.

huh? there are plenty of toxic house plants available in local
stores all over that are toxic to humans, and would also be toxic
to all house pets. this is well documented.

or did you mean something else?

No. I meant exactly what I said. Why don't you assemble and give us
a list of these plants? It would be very useful to this group.

there's multiple places around on the net that have lists. some
common ones off the top of my head:

rhododendron
chrysanthemum
philodendron
daffodil
mistletoe

all of these are commonly found as house plants or purchased flowers

Don't forget lilies! They're among the worst - very deadly.

But all these grow in the garden too. They are available to any cat who
ever gets outside. Perhaps that's where the conflict arises.... I am a
keeper of outside cats. all of my cats (I currently have five) can come
and go at any time. There is no way in hell I cold keep any of them from
eating any plant they happened to come across in their daily (and
nightly) meanderings through the neighborhood. As a matter of fact, I
had one die this Summer from eating/drinking "Round-up", which is a weed
killer my neighbor used on his back lawn, and which contaminated a water
supply that my cat was accustomed to using. But this is rare, and I have
never lost any cat from eating a plant. Cats are normally carnivores and
outside of taking small tasts of stuff I eat, will not normally eat much
of anything thats vegitable.

true, but that's anecdotal evidence. some more anecdotal evidence: i
have 7 indoor only cats, and there is not one house plant, including
store bought cut flowers, that they don't regularly nibble on (except
for my indoor cactus).

chaniarts wrote:
On 9/29/2011 7:21 PM, Bill Graham wrote:
wrote:
chaniarts wrote:

On 9/29/2011 11:47 AM, Bill Graham wrote:


From having lived with and around cats all of my life, and being
in many houses filled with potted plants, I think that, in
general, there are no plants found in the average home that are
toxic to cats or other pets. If there were such plants, everyone
would know about them by now, and they would be "common
knowlege". Of course, any pet might be allergic to anything, so
there will always be exceptions. In general, however, I wouldn't
worry about it.

huh? there are plenty of toxic house plants available in local
stores all over that are toxic to humans, and would also be toxic
to all house pets. this is well documented.

or did you mean something else?

No. I meant exactly what I said. Why don't you assemble and give
us a list of these plants? It would be very useful to this group.

there's multiple places around on the net that have lists. some
common ones off the top of my head:

rhododendron
chrysanthemum
philodendron
daffodil
mistletoe

all of these are commonly found as house plants or purchased
flowers

Don't forget lilies! They're among the worst - very deadly.

But all these grow in the garden too. They are available to any cat
who ever gets outside. Perhaps that's where the conflict arises....
I am a keeper of outside cats. all of my cats (I currently have
five) can come and go at any time. There is no way in hell I cold
keep any of them from eating any plant they happened to come across
in their daily (and nightly) meanderings through the neighborhood.
As a matter of fact, I had one die this Summer from eating/drinking
"Round-up", which is a weed killer my neighbor used on his back
lawn, and which contaminated a water supply that my cat was
accustomed to using. But this is rare, and I have never lost any cat
from eating a plant. Cats are normally carnivores and outside of
taking small tasts of stuff I eat, will not normally eat much of
anything thats vegitable.

true, but that's anecdotal evidence. some more anecdotal evidence: i
have 7 indoor only cats, and there is not one house plant, including
store bought cut flowers, that they don't regularly nibble on (except
for my indoor cactus).

Yes. Kittens can be seriously harmed by certain cactus plants. I have heard
of several instances of this...... I will add it to my list of things that
can hurt or kill outside cats...

chaniarts wrote:
On 9/29/2011 7:21 PM, Bill Graham wrote:
wrote:
chaniarts wrote:

On 9/29/2011 11:47 AM, Bill Graham wrote:


From having lived with and around cats all of my life, and being
in many houses filled with potted plants, I think that, in
general, there are no plants found in the average home that are
toxic to cats or other pets. If there were such plants, everyone
would know about them by now, and they would be "common
knowlege". Of course, any pet might be allergic to anything, so
there will always be exceptions. In general, however, I wouldn't
worry about it.

huh? there are plenty of toxic house plants available in local
stores all over that are toxic to humans, and would also be toxic
to all house pets. this is well documented.

or did you mean something else?

No. I meant exactly what I said. Why don't you assemble and give
us a list of these plants? It would be very useful to this group.

there's multiple places around on the net that have lists. some
common ones off the top of my head:

rhododendron
chrysanthemum
philodendron
daffodil
mistletoe

all of these are commonly found as house plants or purchased
flowers

Don't forget lilies! They're among the worst - very deadly.

But all these grow in the garden too. They are available to any cat
who ever gets outside. Perhaps that's where the conflict arises....
I am a keeper of outside cats. all of my cats (I currently have
five) can come and go at any time. There is no way in hell I cold
keep any of them from eating any plant they happened to come across
in their daily (and nightly) meanderings through the neighborhood.
As a matter of fact, I had one die this Summer from eating/drinking
"Round-up", which is a weed killer my neighbor used on his back
lawn, and which contaminated a water supply that my cat was
accustomed to using. But this is rare, and I have never lost any cat
from eating a plant. Cats are normally carnivores and outside of
taking small tasts of stuff I eat, will not normally eat much of
anything thats vegitable.

true, but that's anecdotal evidence. some more anecdotal evidence: i
have 7 indoor only cats, and there is not one house plant, including
store bought cut flowers, that they don't regularly nibble on

Well, I lot of cats will nibble on most anything. But unless whateveritis is
very very poisonous, a little nibble is usually harmless. I had one who ate
an artichoke plant down to ground level as soon as it grew about a foot high
many years ago, but it wasn't poisonous at all, so it did the cat little
harm. My wife had a cat that liked cantaloupe, but that didn't hurt him
either. Very few plants are poisonous enough to hure a cat from a little
nibbling now and then. If they did, they would also hurt children. Some
toddlers will eat anything. My cats nibble on the food we are eating for
breakfast or dinner. We even put some on a seperate plate for them to
sample, (but they prefer to get it directly off of our plates.....)