Dog Information

First Aid Infrormation for your pet
Learning some basic first aid for your dog can help you in the event of an emergency.

First Aid Kits- some supplies to keep on hand.

* A Pet First Aid Book.
* A soft muzzle or a metre of soft fabric to make an emergency muzzle.
* Gauze pads
* Gauze rolls
* Adhesive tape
* Latex gloves
* Tweezers
* Blunt pair of scissors
* An antidiarrheal medication (Kaeopectate or Pepto Bismol)
* A rectal thermometer (clearly labeled "FOR PETS ONLY")
* Vaseline
* Hydrogen peroxide (to clean wounds and induce vomiting)
* Syringe for administering medication
* Kwik Stop (to stop bleeding if a toe nail is cut too short)


Make a point of having a weekly routine of going over your dog from head to tail. Check ears, nose, skin, rear, pads of feet, nails, etc.. for anything unusual. Look for bumps, lumps, cuts, rashes, etc... This can be an enjoyable time for you and your dog. Make it into a massage session for your dog and he'll come running when it's time for his weekly routine go-over.

There are many sites with basic first pet aid info, learning some basics could help you save your dogs life until you get to your vets. Any injuries or illness shoud be seen by a veterinarian.
http://www.dog-first-aid-101.com/dog-first-aid.html


Toxic Plants and Foods
Dogs can be deadly to plants, but more than a few plants are quite capable of getting revenge. Here are some bad seeds. Most just make your dog sick, but a few of them can kill. If your pet has tangled with any of these - call your vet!

Here is a quick reference guide to the more common house and garden plants and foods that are toxic to most all animals. If you have these plants or foods, you need not dispose of them-just keep them away from your pets (and your children).

*Indicates that a substance is especially dangerous and can be fatal.

Alcohol (all beverages, ethanol, methanol, isopropyl)
Almonds*, Alocasia, Amaryllis bulb*, Apricot*, Arrowgrass,Autumn crocus ( Colchicum autumnale)*,Avocado (leaves, seeds, stem, skin)*, Azalea (entire rhododendron family)

Baneberry, Bayonet, Beargrass, Begonia*, Bird of Paradise,Bittersweet, Black-eyed Susan
Black Locust, Bleeding heart*,Bluebonnet, Bloodrot, Boxwood, Bracken fern, Buckeye
Burning Bush, Buttercup (Ranunculus)

Caffeine, Caladium*, Calla lily*, Canada Yew, Candelabra, Cactus,Castor bean* (can be fatal if chewed), Ceriman, Cherry, Chinaberry, Chinese sacred or heavenly bamboo*,Chocolate
Choke cherry (unripe berries)*, Christmas Rose, Chrysanthemum (a natural source of pyrethrins)
Clematis, Coriaria, Cornflower, Corydalis, Crocus bulb, Croton (Codiaeum sp.), Crown of Thorns
Cyclamen bulb

Daffodil, Daphne, Datura, Deadly Nightshade, Death Camas
Delphinium, larkspur, monkshood*, Dicentrea, Dieffenbachia, Dumb cane (Dieffenbachia)*

Easter Lily, Eggplant, Elderberry (unripe berries), Elephant Ear, English ivy (All Hedera species of ivy), Euonymus, Evergreen Ferns

Ficus, Flax, Fig (Ficus), Four-o'clocks (Mirabilis), Foxglove (Digitalis)

Garlic*, Golden Glow, Gopher Purge, Grapes

Hellebore, Hemlock, Henbane, Holly berries, Honeysuckle, Horsebeans, Horsebrush,Horse Chestnut, Hyacinth bulbs, Hydrangea*

Iris corms, Iris Ivy

Jack-in-the-pulpit*, Japanese Yew, Java Beans, Jessamine, Jerusalem Cherry, Jimson weed*
Jonquil, Jungle Trumpets

Kalanchoe*

Lantana*, Larkspur, Laurel, Lily (bulbs of most species), Lily-of-the-valley, Lily Spider, Locoweed
Lupine species

Malanga, Marigold, Marijuana or hemp (Cannibus)*, Milkweed*, Mistletoe berries*, Mock Orange
Monkshood, Morning glory*, Mountain laurel, Mushrooms

Narcissus, daffodil (Narcissus), Nettles, Nightshade

Oak* (remove bark for use as a bird perch), Oleander*, Onions*

Peace Lilly, Peach*, Pencil cactus plant* (Euphorbia sp.), Peony, Periwinkle, Peyote Cactus
Philodendron (all species)*, Pimpernel, Poinciana, Poinsettia (many hybrids, avoid them all)
Poison Ivy, Poison Oak, Pokeweed, Poppy, Potato (plant), Potato (leaves and stem)
Precatory beans, Privet

Rhododendron, Rhubarb leaves*, Rosary Pea (Arbus sp.)* (Can be fatal if chewed)
Rubber Plant

Schefflera (umbrella plant), Scotch Broom, Schefflera, Shamrock (Oxalis sp.)*
Skunk Cabbage, Snowdrops, Snow-on-the-Mountain, Spreading English Yew,
Spurge (Euphorbia sp.), Staggerweed, Starleaf, Star of Bethlehem, Sweetpea

Tansy Mustard, Tobacco, Tomatoes (leaves and stem), Tuffroot, Tulip

Virginia Creeper

Walnut hulls, Water Arum, Weeping Fig, Wild Call Wisteria, Wild Calla, Wisteria

Yellow Calla, Yew*