There are many plants commonly fund in home gardens which could prove lethal to dogs and especially to puppies (who chew everything) – not to mention yourself and your children. Below is a list of some of those plants with the effects they can have if eaten – even in small quantities.
Azalea (entire plant): Paralysis of the muscles, including the heart. Depression of the central nervous system, sometimes fatal.
Bird of paradise (seed pods): Nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea.
Buttercup (entire plant): Stomach irritation, diarrhoea, and in large quantities, convulsions.
Calla Lily (entire plant): Intense burning sensation and irritation of the mouth and stomach.
Castor Bean (entire plant but especially seeds): Burning sensation in mouth, 2 or more seeds may cause serious illness/death.
Daffodil (Bulb): Severe vomiting and diarrhoea, trembling, convulsions and sometimes death.
Daphne (entire plant): Burning and ulceration of stomach and intestines, bloody vomiting and diarrhoea.
English ivy (leaves & berries): General excitement, difficulties in breathing, coma.
Holly (berries): Vomiting, diarrhoea, weakness and collapse.
Isis (leaves, roots & fleshy portions): Severe but temporary digestive upsets.
Jerusalem Cherry (berries): Vomiting, diarrhoea and collapse.
Lantana (berries): Gastro-intestinal irritation, muscular weakness and circulatory difficulties. Sometimes fatal.
Oleander (entire plant): Nausea, depression, bloody diarrhoea, weakened and irregular pulse and paralysis.
Poinsettia (leaves & stems): Diarrhoea, abdominal cramps and delirium. Sap can cause skin irritation and if rubbed in eyes, blindness.
Poison Oak (leaves): Skin irritation.
Privet (entire plant): Bloody vomiting, diarrhoea, severe irritation of the digestive tract and general nervous symptoms.
Ranunculus (see Buttercup).
Rhubarb (leaves): Vomiting, severe abdominal pain, muscle cramps and in large quantities, convulsions, coma and death.
Wisteria(entire plant): Severe vomiting, abdominal pain and diarrhoea.
Yellow Jasmine (entire plant):Thirst, dilation of pupils, redenned skin, headache, high blood pressure and rapid pulse, convulsion, delirium and coma.
It is not safe to assume that just because you can eat part of a plant, the rest isn’t poisonous.
