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Is your Home
Safe for your Furry Friend?
Poisonous
Household Items
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1. |
Detergents |
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2. |
Automotive
Products |
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3. |
Cold & Flu
Medications (human medications of any kind) |
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4. |
Antidepressants |
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5. |
Vitamins |
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6. |
Insecticides,
Pesticides |
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7. |
Rat,Mouse & Fly
Bait |
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8. |
Bleach |
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9. |
Household Cleaning
Agents |
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10. |
Disinfectants |
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11. |
Fabric Softeners |
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12. |
Lead |
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13. |
Lighter Fluid |
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14. |
Mothballs |
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15. |
Slug & Snail Bait |
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16. |
Solvents (paint
thinners, etc.) |
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17. |
Drain Cleaners |
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Make your home a safer place, if you have any of
these products in or around your home make sure
they're in places where your pets can't reach them.
Poisoning: Be alert to signs of
poisoning such as salivating, swelling or sensitive
areas
inside the mouth, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal
pain, lethargy, staggering,
twitching, convulsions, and coma.
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Actions to be
taken:
1) Prevent
further poison being swallowed. Wash off any
on the coat.
2) Contact the veterinarian or poison
control immediately.
National
Animal Poison Control Center
This is the
website of the National Animal Poison Control Center. It
includes a library, links to other sites, and phone
numbers for the poison control center.
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3) If
you think you know what the pet has
swallowed, take some with you to the
veterinarian, and its container.
Your
veterinarian may tell you to make
the dog vomit with an emetic, if the
dog ingested the poison within a 1/2
hour. Emetics are: Syrup of Ipecac;
2T. 1/2 milk & 1/2 peroxide; salt in
warm water; mustard in cold water.
He may also advise use of charcoal
to dilute
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