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Holidays And Pets: How To Keep Your Pets Safe And Your Holidays Happy
By Bill Beavers

The holidays are upon us. Here are some tips to keep your pets safe and protect them from illness, surgery, or death.

The Christmas Experience and Pet Safety

Holiday plants: Mistletoe, Holly, Hibiscus, and the ever-popular Poinsettia can cause severe intestinal problems and worse. Keep these plants out of the reach of your pet.

Electrical Cords: Some pets cannot resist chewing on the cords. These cords can be taped to the floor to discourage chewing. This may also prevent tripping by humans as well.

Christmas Trees: Some dogs enjoy chewing on your Christmas tree. Do not allow this.

Christmas Ornaments and wrapping material: Can be a major cause of choking.

The Fireplace: The warmth and beauty of our fireplaces at holiday time is cozy comfort for sure. Your fireplace and candles can cause problems if your pet is in the wrong place at the wrong time. A high degree of supervision is needed. A Hearth Gate, sometimes called a Fireplace Gate will solve this problem for children and pets.

The Tree: If you have a large pet then no decorating the tree with food items. Cover and protect the tree water basin so pets have not access at all. A bacterium in the tree water is harmful to pets.

Holidays Food and Pet Safety

The majority of women have a gene that causes them to cook many delightful things during this time. They cannot help themselves. There is food and drink for weeks around the house for family and for guests. Our pets would enjoy participating in this giant food fest but do not allow this. Always keep dog safety in mind. Taking a short look at some reasons why our pets need to be excluded from people food are;

Chocolate: Most of us know not to allow our pets to have chocolate, any chocolate at any time. Please be sure to keep all chocolate and candy products away, far away from your pets at all times.

Coffee: Contains chemicals that affect the urinary tract, the heart, and their nervous system.

Uncooked food: Many times uncooked food may contain uncooked bones that can get caught in the throat not to mention a little something called E.Coli. Uncooked foods may also contain certain parasites which can cause ongoing hard to diagnose problems.

Rich and Fatty foods: The goodies we humans enjoy so much can be disastrous for pets. Have you ever heard your vet mention pancreatitis?

Uncooked yeast products: Dog health is negatively affected when uncooked yeast products are swallowed they can expand in the stomach and intestines as well as producing tons of gas. Too much gas and yeast related expansion could cause a rupture of the stomach or intestinal tract as well as producing tons of gas. Too much gas and yeast related expansion could cause a rupture of the stomach or intestinal tract.

Macadamia nuts: This tasty nut gets the same warning as chocolate.

Grapes and Raisins: I remind you that grapes and raisins can cause kidney damage in your pet.

Onions and Onion Products: These are also hazardous to your pets.

Miscellaneous areas of concern for Pet Safety

Cigarettes and other Tobacco products: These products are extremely hazardous to pets. Just smoke outside, empty ashtrays and keep discarded filters away from pet areas.

Food Ties: This seems like a small thing but, the strings that hold that Turkey or Ham or Beef Roast together all tied up and looking so good can be ingested by your pet after being removed from the finished product. Should this happen you may be in for a surgical emergency on a holiday weekend.

Discarded Foil and Plastic wrap: We all know what a keen sense of smell our pets have. They can smell discarded aluminum foil or plastic wrap a mile away. If they manage to get into discarded foil, plastic and even candy wrappers ingestion could result in intestinal blockage. Again, surgery will be needed to remove the foreign matter. Cover your garbage and keep kitchens free from used cooking foil, plastic wrap and anything else your pet might decide to claim as their own.

Pet Anxiety: An important component of dog health. We should keep an eye out for our pets when guests are in our homes. Many pets cheerfully accept the additional people in the home but many do not. Our pets experience stress too.

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