Celebrate Easter in style but do not let your pet dog or cat nose around the Easter goodies. Some of the goodies can really be very perilous for your pet.
Easter Lilies or White Trumpet Lilies, white and pretty trumpet-shaped flowers symbolic of the Easter festival, and other flowers like the day lilies and tiger lilies can spell death for cats. Easter Lilies are sold as potted plants or as cut flowers during Easter time. The leaves contain toxins that can damage the kidneys of cats. Eating just one leaf can cause a lot of harm. Instantly your cat will start vomiting and show signs of lethargy because the toxins start affecting the kidneys. This can result in the cat’s death within 5 days. But in case you detect early that your cat has eaten the deadly leaf or leaves, waste no time in taking him to the vet. If you are lucky your cat may recover.
You dog or cat may play or nibble with decorative Easter Grass usually made of plastic, other plastic items like toys and strings, or even foil-wrappers and in the process swallow the entire item or pieces of these items. These may choke your pet or get lodged in the intestine that may lead to blockage of the intestine and therefore perforation. Do not also decorate your pets with ribbons or fancy items for the results may be the same. Again, if your pet really ingests these items take him to the vet immediately. Otherwise, your pet will stop eating, he will start vomiting, have abnormal bowel movements and treatment will prove to be more difficult and expensive.
Chocolates 
too are not good for your pet because of the large amount of fat that they contain and also other ingredients in them such as caffeine and theobromine. These ingredients stimulate the nervous system and consumption of large amounts can cause toxicity. But here the after-effects of consumption depend on the amount taken and also the type of chocolate:
White Chocolate (causes the least harm and poisoning due to consumption of this kind of chocolate is not very likely):
• Toxicity can be noticed on ingestion of 45-90 ounces per pound of body weight.
• Toxicity can be noticed on ingestion of 0.7-2 ounces per pound of body weight.
Semi-sweet or dark chocolate and instant cocoa:
• Toxicity can be noticed on ingestion of 1/3-1 ounce per pound of body weight.
Baking chocolate (causes the most harm):
• Toxicity can be noticed on ingestion of 0.1-0.3 ounce per pound of body weight.
Symptoms of toxicity on consumption of chocolates are restlesness, hyperactivity, muscle twitching, increase in urination and lot of panting. These can be accompanied by vomiting and diarrhea. If you notice these symptoms, take your pet to the vet immediately. He may take a day or two to recover.
Prevention is better than cure, so do not feed your pets any chocolates especially baking chocolate.
Via: PetPlace.com
