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The FDA is blunt about it: the entire plant is toxic, including the pollen and the water in the vase. Treatment delayed beyond 18 hours usually means irreversible kidney damage.
Chocolate and onions are the famous ones. Grapes and xylitol are the dangerous ones — for grapes there is no established toxic dose, and a single sugar-free sweet can drop a dog's blood sugar hard enough to collapse it.
A study of nearly a million UK dogs found only 21.7 per cent of heatstroke cases were cooled before reaching a vet — and most of those used a method that does not work. Cold water is not dangerous. Waiting is.
Between 1 and 5 per cent of cats have it. The signs are a dry cough, wheezing, and a crouched posture with the neck stretched out — and open-mouth breathing is an emergency.
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