|
Welcome to the YorkieTalk.com Forums Community - the community for Yorkshire Terriers. You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, communicate privately with other members (PM), respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features. You will be able to chat with over 35,000 YorkieTalk members, read over 2,000,000 posted discussions, and view more than 15,000 Yorkie photos in the YorkieTalk Photo Gallery after you register. We would love to have you as a member! Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please, join our community today! If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please click here to contact us. |
|
| LinkBack | Thread Tools |
03-31-2013, 07:16 AM | #1 |
No Longer a Member Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Dothan, Alabama
Posts: 176
| Dangers of sago palm plants to pets I would like to start a thread again about the dangers of sago palm plants. I lost my beloved three year old baby girl, Roxie, to this terrible plant back in January after she ate one of the seeds. The death from cycasin, which is the poison in this plant is a very bad one. Even with extremely agressive (and expensive) medical treatment, my baby girl still passed away in less than four days. It is the most heartbreaking, gutwrenching thing I have been through in a long, long time. Please be aware there is not one part of this plant that is not poison. I have attached a link I found just this week regarding this plant. Please, please keep your pets safe. The seeds come off in December, January and February from what I have read, but could be anywhere, anytime. I will also include a picture so everyone can identify the plant. They are used alot here in the south for landscaping and are now being sold as houseplants. PLEASE BEWARE! I WISH I HAD KNOWN AND IT WOULD HAVE BEEN OUT OF MY YARD AND MY ROXIE WOULD STILL BE WITH ME. You must protect your pet against sago palms - Dara Johns - Northwest Florida Daily News |
Welcome Guest! | |
03-31-2013, 07:19 AM | #2 |
No Longer a Member Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Dothan, Alabama
Posts: 176
| Pic of Sago Palm Plant Here is a picture of this hateful thing so you can identify it. They should be outlawed in my opinion, but the horticulture industry has strong lobbyists is what I was told when I e-mailed the USDA Poison Plant Division. You must protect your pet against sago palms - Dara Johns - Northwest Florida Daily News |
03-31-2013, 07:40 AM | #3 |
No Longer a Member Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Dothan, Alabama
Posts: 176
| Article and picture of sago palm plant What's New - Pet Poison Helpline Sorry, had trouble with the picture. But, this is a good article and with a picture! |
03-31-2013, 07:47 AM | #4 |
No Longer a Member Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Dothan, Alabama
Posts: 176
| Picture of sago palm plant https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net...36127187_n.jpg This is the best picture I can find, so sorry. |
03-31-2013, 08:02 AM | #5 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: Prunetucky
Posts: 249
| Thank you for this information. Sorry for your loss. |
03-31-2013, 08:12 AM | #6 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Katy, Texas USA
Posts: 1,458
| Sorry for the loss of your baby girl. Sago Palms are very toxic, we pulled up a huge one that was in our back yard. When we walk, I steer the pups away from yards that have them close to the sidewalk.
__________________ Jeanie, mom to Buster and Maggie |
03-31-2013, 08:58 AM | #7 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Posts: 56
| Oh no. I am terribly sorry for your loss. Its great that your educating other moms on YT. Again, I am sorry for you loss. RIP Roxie.
__________________
|
03-31-2013, 09:18 AM | #8 |
No Longer a Member Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Dothan, Alabama
Posts: 176
| Thank you Thank you all. The only thing that I can do at this point (other than having dug up the one in our backyard, actually my hubby did), is to try and educate others. I only wish I had run across something about it, somewhere, sometime. "If" is a huge word, though and there is no going back now. I do want to let others know so that no pet will have to suffer like Roxie did or that no family will have to suffer such as we have. My male yorkie, Bear, is still grieving for her at times I think. It may sound crazy, but sometimes I can tell that he is. It seems he has a faraway look in his eyes. Please pass this on to anyone you know that has these wicked plants. We had ours for fifteen years and no problem, but then there was that one incident and unfortunately that is all it takes. The seeds are the most poisonous and I still worry that there might be one in our yard or a squirrel could bring one from somewhere else. I have heard of that, too. |
Bookmarks |
|
|
| |
|
|
SHOP NOW: Amazon :: eBay :: Buy.com :: Newegg :: PetStore :: Petco :: PetSmart