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Pet Tips
Text - Dog Holiday Peril
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Hello, I am Dr. David Roberts from
Manchester West Veterinary Hospital and
I am here with Cruiser my Christmas Elf, and we
are going to talk to you about some of the ways
to have your healthy holidays and keep them
healthy.
We are going to go over some of the Christmas
perils that we worry about with our pets,
especially dogs.
The first two are plants. The poinsettia.
The leaves from the poinsettia can create an
upset stomach with our dogs, so we want to keep
them up high not on the floor where a dog can
eat them.
The worse one however is mistletoe
and all parts of this plant can be toxic. It can
actually cause kidney failure, so you want to
make sure this up on the ceiling where it needs
to be.
The second thing we need to look at is our
Christmas tree, and that is the thing we cherish
much but remember, electrical cords and the
lights that are supplied by that can naturally
be a problem for two reasons. First, dogs will
sometime eat these. Other times when they are on
plugged in and active of course these pets can
get shocked and it creates a lot of oral trauma.
Other things on our tree are the ornaments these
are balls and look like little toy balls to your
dog and of course they are glass. Sometimes dogs
will actually eat these and we will have to go
in and surgically remove these
from patients.
Same thing with tinsel, its great looks great
but what we worry about again is our pets eating
this and having it get obstructed in
their intestinal track. When we start
looking at presents under the tree, we worry
about two things, ribbon and bows are are really
a problem. This is probably our worse peril for
dogs and cats because if they eat this it will
start to get obstructed in their intestinal
tract.
The other thing that I worry about is candy and
food items under the tree. If you have candy
wrapped or a fruit cake wrapped your dog will
sniff it out and they will find it and open it
for you and they will eat it.
The last thing in the kitchen is the chocolate,
if you refer back to our Halloween and our
Thanksgiving videos we talked about how
chocolate can be a big problem for pets. During
the holidays it is worse because this is baking
chocolate . Baking chocolate is about 4 times
more concentrated then the product that is toxic
to our dogs and cats.
So this holiday season let’s keep it happy but
keep it healthy. Keep all of these things away
from your pet.
Thank you very much. I am Dr. David
Roberts, Manchester West Veterinary Hospital
wishing everyone a very Happy Holiday.
If you have any questions about any of these
things please do not hesitate to call our
hospital. Thank you and again Happy Holidays.
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