There are many products, plants and common household objects that can pose a danger to your cats. PandEcats.com has compiled three extensive lists of dangers that you must be aware of in order to safeguard your cat. Please take the time to review all three lists. If you know of something you think we should add to our lists, please Email Us

• Dangerous Objects
• Poisonous Plants
• Poisonous Household Products

A cat will swallow a wide variety of objects that cannot pass through its digestive tract - a condition that often may require surgery to correct. Cats have barbs on their tongues and the roofs of their mouths that all point backwards. If a piece of string or tinsel gets in their mouths while playing, it's very difficult for them to spit it out. Long pieces of string, yarn, tinsel or rubber bands can end up tied tightly around tongues or may end up wrapped in a ball and blocking the intestines. Cats and especially kittens can become too inquisitive or playful, and become entangled in hanging things such as curtain cords or can become inadvertently locked in a clothes dryer if you leave the door open when not in use. In the same way that you childproof your home, so must you cat-proof for the safety of your feline friend.

• Put childproof latches on cupboards containing cleaning supplies, insecticides, and sewing utensils.
• Cover holes, gaps or crevices in walls, in-between or beneath kitchen cupboards, cabinets and closets.
• Also, make sure heating ducts and vents inaccessible.
• Make sure self-closing closets and cupboards don't contain a kitten!
• Make sure doors or windows can't slam shut in a draft.
• Before closing doors (garage to house, basement, closets, etc.) know where your kitten is.

Objects Your Cat May Find Dangerous

Plants Poisonous to Your Cat

Listed below are some of the plants that can be harmful to your cats. Special care must be taken that your cat does not have the opportunity to chew on any of the plants on this list.

Note that many of the common holiday plants are a danger to your cat: Poinsettia, Mistletoe, Evergreens, Chrysanthemums and Easter Lilies to name just a few.

If you suspect your cat has been poisoned by a plant or chemical, consult a veterinarian or poison center immediately. Be sure to take a leaf of the plant or the product container with you to the vet for identification.

The Cornell Poisonous Plants Home Page shows you what these plants look like and explains the chemical toxins that each plant contains.

Alfalfa Almond Pits Aloe Vera Alocasia Amaryllis Andromeda Apple seeds Apple Leaf Croton Apricot Pits Arrowgrass Asparagus Fern Autumn Crocus Avocado (fuit and pit) Azalea Baby's Breath Baneberry Bayonet Beargrass Beech Belladonna Bird of Paradise Bittersweet Black-eyed Susan Black Locust Bleeding Heart Bloodroot Bluebonnet Box Boxwood Branching Ivy Broccoli Buckeyes Buddist Pine Burning Bush Buttercup Cabbage Cactus, Candelabra Caladium Calla Lily Castor Bean Celedine Ceriman Charming Dieffenbachia Cherry (pits, seeds & wilting leaves) Cherry, most wild varieties Cherry, ground Cherry, Laurel Chinaberry Chinese Evergreen Chokecherry Christmas Rose Chrysanthemum Cineria Clematis Climing Lily Cordatum Coriaria Cornflower Corn Cockle Corn Plant Cornstalk Plant Croton Corydalis Crocus, Autumn Crown of Thorns Croen Vetch Cuban Laurel Cutleaf Philodendron Cycads Cyclamen Daffodil Daphne Datura Deadly Nightshade Death Camas Devil's Ivy Delphinium Decentrea Dieffenbachia Dogbane Dracaena Palm Dragon Tree Dumb Cane Dutchman's Breeches

Easter Lily Eggplant Elaine Elderberry Elephant Ear Emerald Feather English Ivy Ergot Eucalyptus Euonymus Evergreen Ferns Fiddle-leaf fig Fiddleneck Florida Beauty Flax Four O'Clock Foxglove Fruit Salad Plant Geranium German Ivy Giant Dumb Cane Glacier Ivy Golden Chain Gold Dieffenbachia Gold Dust Dracaena Golden Glow Golden Pothos Gopher Purge Hahn's Self-Branching Ivy Heartland Philodendron Hellebore Hemlock, Poison Hemlock, Water Henbane Holly Honeysuckle Horsebeans Horsebrush Horse Chestnuts Hurricane Plant Hyacinth Hydrangea Indian Rubber Plant Indian Tobacco Iris Iris Ivy Jack in the Pulpit Janet Craig Dracaena Japanese Show Lily Java Beans Jessamine Jerusalem Cherry Jimson Weed Jonquil Jungle Trumpets Kalanchoe Lacy Tree Philodendron Lamb's Quarters Lantana Larkspur Laurel Lily Lily Spider Lily of the Valley Locoweed Lupine Madagascar Dragon Tree Marble Queen Marigold Marijuana Mescal Bean Mexican Breadfruit Milkweed Miniature Croton Mistletoe Mock Orange Monkey Agaric Monkshood Moonseed Morning Glory Mother-in Law's Tongue Morning Glory Mountain Laurel Mushrooms Mustard

Narcissus Needlepoint Ivy Nephytis Nightshade Oleander Onion Oriental Lily Peace Lily Peach (pits and wilting leaves) Pencil Cactus Peony Periwinkle Philodendron Pigweed Pimpernel Plumosa Fern Poinciana Poinsettia (low toxicity) Poison Hemlock Poison Ivy Poison Oak Pokeweed Poppy Potato Pothos Precatory Bean Primrose Privet, Common Red Emerald Red Princess Red-Margined Dracaena Rhododendron Rhubarb Ribbon Plant Rosemary Pea Rubber Plant Saddle Leaf Philodendron Sago Palm Satin Pothos Schefflera Scotch Broom Silver Pothos Skunk Cabbage Snowdrops Snow on the Mountain Spotted Dumb Cane Squirrel Corn Staggerweed Star of Bethlehem String of Pearls Striped Dracaena Sweetheart Ivy Sweetpea Swiss Cheese plant Tansy Mustard Taro Vine Tiger Lily Tobacco Tomato Plant (green fruit, stem and leaves) Tree Philodendron Tropic Snow Dieffenbachia Tulip Turnip Tung Tree Virginia Creeper Water Hemlock Weeping Fig Wild Call Wisteria Yellow Star Thistle Japanese Yew English Yew Western Yew American Yew

Common Household Products Harmful to Your Cat

Listed below are some of the common household products that can be harmful to your cats. Cats are often very susceptible to poisoning because they lick themselves when they come into contact with products and so are more likely to ingest substances than a dog. If your cat eats any of these products, take him immediately to your veterinarian. Bring the container of the product with you. Also check out the National Animal Poison Control Center

NOTE: The lists contained on this web page are by no means all-conclusive. Check with you veterinarian for more information about plants and substances that are harmful to cats. We hope you and your cat never have a problem :-)

*these lists were compliled by L. D. Hawke, H. Spear, and E. Knight,
who would like to thank all the contributers to many lists
on the many websites from which these lists were gathered

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