Toxic plant causes woman's cat's death peril

It happens all the time. People with no knowledge of plants that are
toxic to cats allow their kitty(s) to get sick from a toxic houseplant
- or to lose their kitty. A few days a man booked to remove the leaves
from our eavestroughs didn't show up on the appointed day, and didn't
phone. Two days later he appeared, and I chewed him out. He admitted
he should have called, but there'd been a tragedy. The company
secretary had to rush her cat to the vets because it ate her toxic
houseplant's leaves. She had no car, so the eavestrough guy's partner
rushed to help her. This meant my guy had to work alone, and had no
time to get to our house that day. In these circumetances it was
forgivable. His story was ligit - he even named the houseplant - a
ficus tree. They've spent over $1000 on the cat, and will go higher if
the cat is treated further. Otherwise it will die. I urged him
strongly to go for broke, and because he and the secretary love cats,
they may do so. Everyone should go to these websites and print them
out before they adopt a cat.

http://www.cfainc.org/articles/plants.html

http://www.plantsciences.ucdavis.edu...nt/Tox-COM.htm

These links would have avoided her kitty being poisoned. At our house
we simply have no plants of any description within reach of our cats.

On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 04:36:31 -0800 (PST), Bobcat
wrote:

It happens all the time. People with no knowledge of plants that are
toxic to cats allow their kitty(s) to get sick from a toxic houseplant
- or to lose their kitty. A few days a man booked to remove the leaves
from our eavestroughs didn't show up on the appointed day, and didn't
phone. Two days later he appeared, and I chewed him out. He admitted
he should have called, but there'd been a tragedy. The company
secretary had to rush her cat to the vets because it ate her toxic
houseplant's leaves. She had no car, so the eavestrough guy's partner
rushed to help her. This meant my guy had to work alone, and had no
time to get to our house that day. In these circumetances it was
forgivable. His story was ligit - he even named the houseplant - a
ficus tree. They've spent over $1000 on the cat, and will go higher if
the cat is treated further. Otherwise it will die. I urged him
strongly to go for broke, and because he and the secretary love cats,
they may do so. Everyone should go to these websites and print them
out before they adopt a cat.

http://www.cfainc.org/articles/plants.html

http://www.plantsciences.ucdavis.edu...nt/Tox-COM.htm

These links would have avoided her kitty being poisoned. At our house
we simply have no plants of any description within reach of our cats.

At my house, there are simply no plants! And looking at the lists, it
makes me glad that every plant I've ever had has died. No plant can
survive a winter in my house; it's just far too cold, and too dry.

I had plants (for awhile, anyway...) when I got my first two cats,
though, and I knew NOTHING about poisonous plants. It seems like
everyone I knew gave me a plant, when I bought my house. Odds are
probably 100% that at least one of them was poisonous.

That's really scary.

~~~~~~~~~~~~ ^..^

"Life without cats would be only marginally worth living."
-TC, and the unmercifully, relentlessly, sweet calico kitty, Kenzie.

Every day is a treasure with Kenzie; I try to treat them that way. There
will only be so many, and then there will never, ever, be any more.

How you behave towards cats here below determines your status in Heaven.
- Robert Heinlein

purrs on the way for the sick kitty.

On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 04:36:31 -0800 (PST), Bobcat
wrote:

It happens all the time. People with no knowledge of plants that are
toxic to cats allow their kitty(s) to get sick from a toxic houseplant
- or to lose their kitty. A few days a man booked to remove the leaves
from our eavestroughs didn't show up on the appointed day, and didn't
phone. Two days later he appeared, and I chewed him out. He admitted
he should have called, but there'd been a tragedy. The company
secretary had to rush her cat to the vets because it ate her toxic
houseplant's leaves. She had no car, so the eavestrough guy's partner
rushed to help her. This meant my guy had to work alone, and had no
time to get to our house that day. In these circumetances it was
forgivable. His story was ligit - he even named the houseplant - a
ficus tree. They've spent over $1000 on the cat, and will go higher if
the cat is treated further. Otherwise it will die. I urged him
strongly to go for broke, and because he and the secretary love cats,
they may do so. Everyone should go to these websites and print them
out before they adopt a cat.

http://www.cfainc.org/articles/plants.html

http://www.plantsciences.ucdavis.edu...nt/Tox-COM.htm

These links would have avoided her kitty being poisoned. At our house
we simply have no plants of any description within reach of our cats.

Gandalf wrote:

Bobcat wrote:

The company
secretary had to rush her cat to the vets because it ate her toxic
houseplant's leaves. She had no car, so the eavestrough guy's partner
rushed to help her. This meant my guy had to work alone

Good guy, though!

His story was ligit - he even named the houseplant - a
ficus tree. They've spent over $1000 on the cat, and will go higher if
the cat is treated further. Otherwise it will die. I urged him
strongly to go for broke, and because he and the secretary love cats,
they may do so.

Purrs for the kitty to recover.

http://www.cfainc.org/articles/plants.html
http://www.plantsciences.ucdavis.edu...nt/Tox-COM.htm

I had plants (for awhile, anyway...) when I got my first two cats,
though, and I knew NOTHING about poisonous plants. It seems like
everyone I knew gave me a plant, when I bought my house. Odds are
probably 100% that at least one of them was poisonous.

That's really scary.

That is scary. Over the past several years, people have given me
plants that I refuse to bring into the house. My cats *do* eat plants -
they love to chew on anything green. A few years ago, someone brought
me a pointsettia at Christmastime. I don't believe those are deadly
to cats, but they can make a cat sick. Fortunately, it's warm enough,
even in winter, to keep a plant outdoors, so that's what I did.

Another friend gave me a lovely bouquet for my birthday a couple of
years ago, but it contained lilies!! I actually removed the lilies and
said that she could keep those, because I wasn't even going to allow
them out on my front porch. Smudge goes out there! Some people might
think that was a rude thing for me to do, but I'm not taking any
chances with lilies. The person who gave them to me is a cat-lover,
but apparently didn't know about poisonous plants. So at least she
learned something.

--
Joyce ^..^

(To email me, remove the X's from my user name.)

wrote:
Gandalf wrote:

Bobcat wrote:

The company
secretary had to rush her cat to the vets because it ate her toxic
houseplant's leaves. She had no car, so the eavestrough guy's
partner rushed to help her. This meant my guy had to work alone

Good guy, though!

His story was ligit - he even named the houseplant - a
ficus tree. They've spent over $1000 on the cat, and will go higher
if the cat is treated further. Otherwise it will die. I urged him
strongly to go for broke, and because he and the secretary love
cats, they may do so.

Purrs for the kitty to recover.

http://www.cfainc.org/articles/plants.html
http://www.plantsciences.ucdavis.edu...nt/Tox-COM.htm

I had plants (for awhile, anyway...) when I got my first two cats,
though, and I knew NOTHING about poisonous plants. It seems like
everyone I knew gave me a plant, when I bought my house. Odds are
probably 100% that at least one of them was poisonous.

That's really scary.

That is scary. Over the past several years, people have given me
plants that I refuse to bring into the house. My cats *do* eat plants
- they love to chew on anything green. A few years ago, someone
brought me a pointsettia at Christmastime. I don't believe those are
deadly
to cats, but they can make a cat sick. Fortunately, it's warm enough,
even in winter, to keep a plant outdoors, so that's what I did.

Another friend gave me a lovely bouquet for my birthday a couple of
years ago, but it contained lilies!! I actually removed the lilies and
said that she could keep those, because I wasn't even going to allow
them out on my front porch. Smudge goes out there! Some people might
think that was a rude thing for me to do, but I'm not taking any
chances with lilies. The person who gave them to me is a cat-lover,
but apparently didn't know about poisonous plants. So at least she
learned something.

Lilies are one of the worse, even the pollen can be fatel and obviously any
cat getting it on their fur will wash it off. :-(
--
Adrian (Owned by Snoopy, Bagheera & Shadow)
Cats leave pawprints on your heart
http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk

"Bobcat" wrote in message
...
It happens all the time. People with no knowledge of plants that are
toxic to cats allow their kitty(s) to get sick from a toxic houseplant
- or to lose their kitty. A few days a man booked to remove the leaves
from our eavestroughs didn't show up on the appointed day, and didn't
phone. Two days later he appeared, and I chewed him out. He admitted
he should have called, but there'd been a tragedy. The company
secretary had to rush her cat to the vets because it ate her toxic
houseplant's leaves. She had no car, so the eavestrough guy's partner
rushed to help her. This meant my guy had to work alone, and had no
time to get to our house that day. In these circumetances it was
forgivable. His story was ligit - he even named the houseplant - a
ficus tree. They've spent over $1000 on the cat, and will go higher if
the cat is treated further. Otherwise it will die. I urged him
strongly to go for broke, and because he and the secretary love cats,
they may do so. Everyone should go to these websites and print them
out before they adopt a cat.

http://www.cfainc.org/articles/plants.html

http://www.plantsciences.ucdavis.edu...nt/Tox-COM.htm

These links would have avoided her kitty being poisoned. At our house
we simply have no plants of any description within reach of our cats.

I can't get plants to grow - they always die and make me sad - so we only
have artificial plants in our house. But I would second the recommendation
to always check to make sure a plant is not poisonous before adding it to a
home with cats - cats *love* to eat plants.

Hugs,

CatNipped