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Beware of TOXINS!
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Thanks to reader Karen for this harrowing story so We can get out the word. Pet/Plant Danger warning! /Purple Fountain Grass” though PFG is technically not “toxic” if ingested – it poses a HUGE threat to all animals if the debris (dried seeds) enter the dog’s body threough the eyes, ears, nose or skin (paw).  This plant can migrate to the lungs and brain and kill the animal.  It’s “barbed” seeds attach to the membranes of animals and migrates to pose huge risks.  An animal would need immediate vet care to be sedated and have the plant particle surgically removed..  Please note, Purple Fountain Grass (PFG) is ALSO considered a “foxtail” grass plant by insiders and vets.  All grass plants with these barbed seeds and “foxtail like appearance from bushy ends” are nicknamed foxtails.  PFG sent my dog and a neighbors cat directly to the emergency for surgery.  My dog inhaled it when sniffing around the bush and the plant entered the cat’s body through it’s paw and migrated to his lung nearly taking his life after the lung filled with pus from infection – which is the danger PFG poses.  My dog cracked his cheek bone while slamming his face to the ground and violently sneezing trying to remove the Purple Fountain Grass that immediately attached to the membrane inside the nose there is a handful of grass plants that pose this danger and THAT danger is a threat because nicknaming them all “foxtails” doesn’t tell the public which plants are actually a danger.  Purple Fountain Grass IS one such plant.

Like Cats & Dogs.....
Cats Deserve Their Own Garden
Grow Organic!! Place a cat sculpture, scratching post with a resting ledge on top, toys, sunning rocks, a shady space, water dish.  To keep cats from doing their business in their garden: use cedar or cypress mulch, moss the ground, or use a garden mesh over the area and cut holes for the following plants to be dug in.
Alyssum (lobularia)
Blue fescue grass (festuca glauca)
Broccoli
Bugleweed  (Lycopus americana)
Calendula 
Cat calamint (calamintha nepeta)
Cat grass (datylis glomerata)
Catmint
Catnip
Cat Thyme (Teucrium marum)
Coleus
Couch grass,Quackgrass (Agropyron)
Dill
Gerbena Daisy
White Ginger, Butterfly Ginger 
Ginkgo biloba   (Hedychium coronarium)
Lamb's ears (stachys)
Lettuce 
Nettle  (Urtica species)
Oat grass
Strawberries (Fragaria)
Parsley
Petunia
Papyrus
Quackgrass (Agropyron repens)
Rye grass
Sage, Texas Sage, Salvia, Scarlet Sage 
Creeping thyme
Valerian (Valeriana officianalis)
Wheat grass   
Zinnia
Plants that Cats Don't Like
 Barley grass
Cast iron plant (aspidistra elatior),
Flax (linum usitatissimum)
Jacob's ladder (polemonium)
Lemon grass (cymbopogon citratus), Liriope (liriope muscari)
Miscanthis grass
Pennyroyal (mentha pulegium)
Purple fountain grass
Silver vine (actinidia polygama)
Striped ribbon grass (phalaris arundinacea)
Sweetgrass (hierochloe odorata)
Tufted sedge (carex)
 
Toxic Plants to Cats & Dogs
 
Amaryllis
Apple Leaf Croton
Autumn Crocus
Avocado (fruit and pit)
Azalea
Baby's Breath
Bittersweet
Bird of Paradise
Branching Ivy
Buckeye Buddhist Pine
Caladium
Calla Lily
Castor Bean
Ceriman
Charming Dieffenbachia
Chinese Evergreen
Christmas Rose
Cineraria
Clematis
Cordatum
Corn Plant
Cornstalk Plant
Croton
Cuban Laurel
Cut leaf Philodendron
Cycads
Cyclamen
Daffodil
Devil's Ivy
Dianthus
Dieffenbachia
Dracaena Palm
Dragon Tree
Dumb Cane
Easter Lily (in cats!!!!)
Elaine(Codiaeum elaine)
Elephant Ears L
Emerald Feather
English Ivy
Fiddle-leaf fig
Florida Beauty
Foxglove
Fruit Salad Plant
Geranium
German Ivy
Giant Dumb Cane
Glacier Ivy
Gold Dieffenbachia
Gold Dust Dracaena
Golden Pothos
Ivy
Heartland Philodendron
Hops
Hurricane Plant

 
Natural Pet Care

Always Consult a Vet!

Keep Mole Killer & Slug bait out of the garden, and put away the Anti Freeze, they will kill Pets!

Don't buy pet food contining sucrose or sugar! This will attract ticks, fleas, lice & mites to pets that eat it!!

Wash their Bedding and Vacuum their resting spots! There's Eggs in there!!

Place fresh lavender, eucalyptus and rosemary in their beds or resting spots.Always consult a vet before using remedies!

Ticks, Fleas & Lice

Tansy and fleabane are flea repelling herbs. Pennyroyal is toxic, so consult a vet for proper use)
Brewer's yeast given by mouth, or brushed into the fur.

Bathing in diluted cider vinegar for fleas and preventative (1 teaspoon per 3 cups water.Place 1/2 a lemon in hot water, leave overnight, rub water on coat weekly.

Rub fresh eucalyptus, fennel, rosemary or lavender on coat daily until problem is controlled, then weekly.

Mites
Rub fresh lemongrass, lavender and rosemary, basil, citronella, cinnamon leaf, on coat.Garlic is also very effective, one third of a chopped clove added to food daily.

Arthritis
Add calcium or bonemeal daily to food, vitamin E or vitamin C twice a week.
Cod liver oil, 1/4 teaspoon per week only, more can be toxic!. Glucosamine and Chondriton supposedly help regenerate cartilage.
Rhus Tox, Bryonia and Pulsatilla may also help.

For older cats: Arnica. Nettles, Alfalfa and Garlic may help.
To Calm a Cat
1/4 cup dried catnip
1 cup dried chamomile
1/2 cup dried lavenderPlace in their bed, resting spot, or litter box.

To increase your pets appetite, sprinkle catnip in food

 

Plants...Natural Cat Repellants

To use in the garden: Cayenne Pepper- Sprinkle  on soil
Vinegar-water solution around acid-loving plants.
A Covered Outdoor Litter Box
Crushed Orange Peels - around shrubs and plants.
Motion sensor to spray water when an animal is detected.
Moth Balls-inside covered can with holes in it- toxic if ingested.
Plant Roses, thorny ones.


Caution with roses, use gloves, rose thorns have naturally occuring tetnus bacteria

 
Toxic Plants to Cats & Dogs
 

Indian Rubber Plant
Janet Craig Dracaena
Japanese Show Lily (cats !!!)
Jerusalem Cherry
Kalanchoe
Lacy Tree Philodendron
Lily of the Valley
Madagascar Dragon Tree
Marble Queen
Marijuana
Mexican Breadfruit
Miniature Croton
Mistletoe
Morning Glory
Mother-in Law's Tongue
Narcissus
Needlepoint Ivy
Nephytis
Nightshade
Oleander
Oriental Lily (cats!!!)
Peace Lily
Pencil Cactus
Plumosa Fern
Poinsettia (low toxicity)
Poison Ivy
Poison Oak
Pothos
Precatory Bean
Primrose
Purple fountain grass
Red Emerald
Red Princess
Red-Margined Dracaena
Rhododendron
Ribbon Plant
Saddle Leaf Philodendron
Sago Palm
Satin Pothos
Schefflera
Silver Pothos
Spotted Dumb Cane
Stargazer lily (cats!!!)
String of Pearls
Striped Dracaena
Sweetheart Ivy
Swiss Cheese Plant
Taro Vine
Tiger Lily(cats!!!)
Tobacco
Tree Philodendron
Tropic Snow Dieffenbachia
Weeping Fig
Yew