Sunday, December 20, 2009

Holiday Treats and Decorations Can Be a Deadly Combination for Pets

How to Avoid a Trip to the Animal ER this Holiday Season

Kansas City, Kan., December 18, 2008 - The veterinary specialists at Veterinary Specialty and Emergency Center of Kansas City (VSEC) ambition to acquaint pet owners of the abeyant hazards that frequently crop abode during the anniversary season. Every anniversary division VSEC sees a acceleration in the amount of emergency patients presented for accepting ingested such adverse items as decorations, toys and baneful foods frequently begin about the home.

"It is alone accustomed that our pets, as a affiliate of the family, aswell accompany in on our anniversary parties and gatherings," says Dr. Jeff Dennis, DVM, ACVIM, an internist with Veterinary Specialty and Emergency Services of Kansas City. "People discount how analytical dogs and bodies can be. Our four-legged best accompany are absorbed by the agleam decorations and evil-smelling treats commonly begin during this time of year."

It is alone accustomed that our pets, as a affiliate of the family, aswell accompany in on our anniversary parties and gatherings People discount how analytical dogs and bodies can be. Our four-legged best accompany are absorbed by the agleam decorations and evil-smelling treats commonly begin during this time of year. Baking amber is the affliction kind The darker the amber the added baneful it is. If you crop a few simple precautions you can abstain a cruise to the abominable emergency allowance and save your pet from potentially life-threatening consequences If you anticipate your pet may accept eaten something he or she was not declared to, be abiding to alarm your veterinarian or appointment an emergency hospital appropriate away. A quick acknowledgment and analysis is acceptable to advance to beneath complications and a accelerated recovery. Dr. Dennis recommends the afterward precautions for pet owners this anniversary season:

Chocolate in acceptable quantities can be absolutely baneful to dogs and cats. "Baking amber is the affliction kind," says Dr. Dennis. "The darker the amber the added baneful it is."

Bones are never a safe amusement for our pets. Many emergencies are the aftereffect of basic accepting ashore in the esophagus, abdomen and intestines. Dogs will bite on annihilation of interest. Owners charge to be acquainted that non-digestible items such as toys and online autograph of accouterment can become lodged in the belly causing a blockage or even a perforation. Loss of appetite, vomiting, and abdomen affliction are accepted complaints.

Christmas copse can aswell prove chancy to our pets. Dogs can ache astringent burns from chewing on the electrical cords. Cats meanwhile may ache an abrasion while aggravating to ascend the timberline causing it to abatement over.

It is alone accustomed to ambition to allotment the holidays with your pet. However agriculture table treats should be avoided. Our pets are not advanced of diet changes and the affluent animal foods archetypal of the anniversary division can could cause astringent abdomen agitated acute abiding hospital care.

String and applique can be absolutely dangerous, abnormally to cats. The belly of bodies are butterfingers of casual such beeline adopted bodies. Emergency anaplasty to abate the obstruction acquired by the cord or applique is about appropriate to save the pet's life.

Beware of the damaging accoutrement anniversary plants can accept on your pets if ingested. Poinsettias can could cause balmy affliction but mistletoe, daffodil, lilies and amaryllis bulbs are acutely baneful and can be a austere blackmail to your pet's bloom if you do not seek actual veterinary attention.

"If you crop a few simple precautions you can abstain a cruise to the abominable emergency allowance and save your pet from potentially life-threatening consequences," says Dr. Dennis. "If you anticipate your pet may accept eaten something he or she was not declared to, be abiding to alarm your veterinarian or appointment an emergency hospital appropriate away. A quick acknowledgment and analysis is acceptable to advance to beneath complications and a accelerated recovery."

The Veterinary Specialty and Emergency Center of Kansas City has been a baton in specialty veterinary care back 1992, accomplishing the charge for specialty bloom affliction and emergency casework for animals in the greater Kansas City city across and afar Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas and Nebraska communities. The hospital continues its attitude of arete today aural its 20,000 aboveboard foot, advanced facility; the aboriginal and a lot of absolute of its affectionate in the Midwest. As a referral-based abominable hospital, VSEC is committed to accouterment above accommodating affliction and applicant account alive carefully with the pet's ancestors veterinarian. For added advice on VSEC, amuse appointment www.vseckc.com.

Contact: Tajiana Ancora-Brown
Veterinary Specialists & Emergency Management
BluePearl Veterinary Partners
813.933.8944

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