POISON!!! What To Do If Your Dog Or Cat Ate Something Poisonous!!!
 

Pet Poison Hotline, Animal Poison Control Center
www.petpoisonhelpline.com here are emergency instructions, a link to an A-Z full poison listing and a list of signs of poisoning in dogs and cats. Also listed is their 24/7 Animal Poison Control Center phone number: 1-800-213-6680 to call for a personal consultation for a fee.

Did your dog or cat just eat something poisonous? Call your veterinarian or Pet Poison Helpline at 800-213-6680 for help immediately! The sooner a dog poisoning or cat poisoning is diagnosed, the easier, less expensive, and safer it is for your pet to get treated!

(Click on the blue hyperlinks below to go directly to that section of the website.)

Emergency Instructions
Emergency Instructions

What to do if your dog or cat is poisoned:

* Remove your pet from the area.
* Check to make sure your pet is safe: breathing and acting normally.
* Do NOT give any home antidotes.
* Do NOT induce vomiting without consulting a vet or Pet Poison Helpline.
* Call Pet Poison Helpline at 800-213-6680.
* If veterinary attention is necessary, contact your veterinarian or emergency veterinary clinic immediately.

Detailed Instructions:
1. Immediately remove your pet from the area, and make sure no other pets (or kids!) are exposed to this area. Safely remove any remaining poisonous material from their reach.
2. Check to make sure your pet is breathing normally and acting fine otherwise.
3. Collect a sample of the material, along with the packaging, vial, or container, and save it – you will need all that information when you talk to your veterinarian or to a Pet Poison Helpline expert.
4. Do NOT give your dog any milk, food, salt, oil, or any other home remedies! Also, never inducing vomiting without talking to your veterinarian or Pet Poison Helpline – it may actually be detrimental or contraindicated to induce vomiting!
5. Don’t give hydrogen peroxide to your pet without checking with a vet or with Pet Poison Helpline first. For you cat lovers, hydrogen peroxide doesn’t work well to induce vomiting (it just causes massive foaming and salivating instead!), and stronger veterinary prescription medications are necessary to get your cat to vomit up the poison Kitty ingested!
6. Get help. Program your veterinarian phone number, along with an ER vet and Pet Poison Helpline’s phone number (800-213-6680) in your cell phone so you will always have immediate access to help.

Keep in mind that the prognosis is always better when a toxicity is reported immediately, so don’t wait to see if your pet becomes symptomatic before calling for help. It’s always less expensive, and safer for your pet for you to call immediately. Remember that there’s a narrow window of time when we can decontaminate (induce vomiting or pump the stomach) in the case of a poisoning!

Poison List - Quickly find a poison:
Poison List quickly find a poison (A-Z poison listing)

Know the Signs of Poisoning in Dogs and Cats
Signs of Poisoning in Dogs and Cats - Pet Poisoning Signs and Symptoms

Gastrointestinal signs
Vomiting
Diarrhea
Drooling/hypersalivating
Inappetance
Nausea

Internal bleeding
Coughing of blood
Vomiting blood
Pale gums
A racing heart rate
Weakness or lethargy
Collapse

Kidney failure
Halitosis (“uremic” breath)
Inappetance
Vomiting
Diarrhea
Excessive thirst or urination
Absence or decreased urination

Liver failure
Jaundice/icterus/yellow discoloration to the gums
Weakness or collapse secondary to a low blood sugar
Dull mentation, acting abnormally
Vomiting
Diarrhea
Black-tarry stool (melena)

For Owners a guide to pet safety

Lisa(Lisa and Pic) used this service when her Vivi got into the heartworm preventative and seemed satisfied and gave me the phone number. I liked the site and a lot of the information there seemed worth sharing with YorkieTalk just as a refresher to us all.

Thanks for posting this Jeanie!

Wonderful this should be a sticky. Thanks for posting!

Thanks for posting this Jeanie! Our local ER gave me this number and I felt this service was helpful when Vivi got into the heartgard on Sunday. They were speedy and knowledgeable and cost about $40.00 for a live consult.

I called them yesterday, too, to see how fast someone answered, etc., and in no time I was talking to a woman and told her I was just checking the phone number before posting their web address, info on our Yorkie forum, etc., and wanting to check it out to be sure I had it down right, etc. She was very nice and helpful. I think the fee is so much cheaper than the ASPCA Poison Hotline that I thought I'd use this reference since it's considerably less money. More people might use it because of the lower fee. Anyway, when I saw your post about Vivi, I couldn't find anything fast here that gave some directions what to do and not to do so I had to go to Google and search and click, wait for websites to load. So I made this for myself to use in a hurry should Tibbe get into something and I go blank.

Woman - you are ON FIRE with creating these awesome threads :love:!

My thought (for now) is to add this to the current Poison sticky in Emerg (above). My issue is that the current Poison sticky bugs me....it's bugged me for a long time bc I feel it's a mod podge. I'd like to re-org it and reformat it entirely; I don't find it readable as it is now.

So, what I'll do is add yours to the end for now - but I may want to have *your* post be first once we revamp the other one (sigh...if I ever get to it :)). Did you see the other Poison thread? If so, see what I mean about it needing to be formatted for readability? I'm a stickler for formatting, I can't help it.

I agree with you if I was looking at the same one you are talking about. I saw one that was really long and didn't seem to get right down to the nitty gritty of what to do or who to call without some more clicking, etc., but maybe I was looking at a different one. After Lisa and Pic posted about using these guys, I clicked on their site and thought if I could get all of that on one shorter page that gave advice and where to call right up front and then some more detail further down with links and attributions, etc., it could give a scared owner at least something to go by without a lot of clicking and loading pages and such - or waiting for replies to a post. AND at $39.00 dollars for a consult, they are far cheaper.

I wanted to see what the AVMA had to say on it but my computer and my eyes were acting up so much, I finally gave up after submitting this thread. Ugh! My touchpad highlight function is s l u g g i s h! Trying to copy hyplinks and sections is so frustrating when it just does a few lines at a time! I wanted to hit it last night or at least scream. LOL. What I did do was run its cleaning program and cleaned out its cache and my little ol' laptop is acting nicer today. I guess he was just tired and dirty last night. :)

AVMA website wasn't that helpful. Didn't have a page that just hits you with what to do right away. Got to click and click to look for answers.

Excellent info! Thank you so much!!

This is the one I'm talking about...ugh...I always get brain cell pain when I read it. It's not anyone's fault or anything -- it's that the info came in at different times, so the thread ended up being a hodge podge. It needs to be *completely* overhauled so that it's readable and absorb-able...and user-friendly/helpful.

I'll get to it one of these.....years. :rolleyes:

My thought is to have your post be the 1st post, and then cull the best info from the rest of it and add it in to subsequent posts to yours...while also formatting it for easier reading.

This is wonderful information to have,thank you. Im having lunch with a fairly new puppy owner today and will add a copy of this to my goodie bag.

Great post!! :thumbup: Thank you for taking the time to put this all together!

Yes, Ann, that was the thread I looked at and one kind of shuts down when seeing it. I wanted to see something in bold fonts for frightened owners that listed what to do and what not to do and a number to call and then a little more detail and links for more reading for information. I love that it said to take the any possible ingested substance with you to the vet! A panicked owner might not even think of that. But there just didn't seem to be a single website that had all of that on one page but I'll admit due to my computer and eyes, I only looked at 4 sites. One had to click around quite a bit on each site to get all the info you really need, so I copied and pasted and really didn't even make a good sentence at the start of the page as trying to get that hyperlink in with the formatting I'd copied was giving me huge problems(it just wouldn't copy from the Google search page - only link me to it - and after fighting with it for so long, it finally copied as a hyperlink that wasn't 1/2 an inch tall and I was so grateful I'd gotten that part done, I didn't even properly edit that first sentence. But you can reword and rework it however you want to in order to make it correct grammatically and more user-friendly for the panicked dog owner who can't get the vet on the phone and doesn't yet know how to get to the ER Vet Clinic.

I do like all of that information on that "Important Links for Pet Poisoning & Dangerous Foods" thread. It is all good and vital info - just probably needs a bit of modernizing, streamlining, artful editing, etc. To me, I would probably prefer to see more information listed by subject matter on more Stickies than one long thread that seems to go on forever. If I want to see poisonous plants listed, I'd rather click on a separate sticky entitled "Poisonous Plants" containing that info rather than have to skip-read through yards of paragraphs on poisons to find it. But that is just me. Others probably would like to read through and skip to get their info in one place.

I'm hoping our Library here will serve as a first resort and often-used resource, easy to access and often read for ready help after any necessary vet consultation. It is so good to have all of that vital information on one website!

That part in red above? That is *exactly* what I mean about the pertinent sticky, and some others too. You just shut down, can't absorb anything, tune out.

I also hear you on the long, exhaustive stickies -- for some sticky/Library threads, it works and it's fine. But for ER type subjects - I really like them to be even more streamlined where you can instantly find just what you need to.

I think what I'll do is - once it's shortened and re-ordered (your post first), I'm going to remove the exhaustive list-type-stuff and instead provide a nice big/bold LINK to the lists of plants and meds etctera - these links would be on their own in the ER Library...rather than as part of the thread. I'll see how that looks.

Girl, that's a lot of cutting, copying and pasting but when it is done, it should really pop! Yes, I should have said the shorter stickies just for emergencies, etc., because people need info easy to read fast. But for those other subjects where one is trying to research and educate, those long and in depth articles and threads are so helpful because it is all there in one place, fully fleshed out in exquisite detail for one to keep reading all one wants. I love that, too, when wanting to research a subject. Don't have to Google and load up a lot of pages and such, just click here in the Library and read away until there is a good foundational knowledge. What a gold mine this place is.