Potential Holiday Pet Hazards
The holidays are a wonderful time, please remember your furry loved ones:
- Holiday treats, poinsettias, alcoholic beverages and rich and fatty food scraps can be harmful or toxic to pets. Keep your pets on their regular diet and caution visitors against giving your pet (s) "special treats."
- Watch those hot containers filled with turkey and ham drippings. The pets can easily tip them over causing severe scalding and burns to themselves.
- BONES ARE DANGEROUS! Please, please don't feed your pets bones, especially poultry bones. Poultry bones splinter easily - each year thousands of pets are treated for consumption of splintered bones, causing pain and sometimes death.
If you find that fido or kitty have hurt themselves and need a doctor immediately, here is a list of the closest emergency vet clinics:
Emergency Animal Clinic of Collin County
972-517-7155
www.emergencyanimalclinic.net
Emergency Animal Clinic (Markville/Greenville & 635)
972- 994-9110
Emergency Animal Clinic (190 & 75)
972-479- 9110
www.dallasemergencyanimalclinic.com
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If your pet does get out of the house or yard and
you can't find them, you can check these two shelters:
Plano Animal Shelter
972-769- 4360
www.plano.gov/Departments/Animal
Richardson Animal Shelter
972-744- 4480
www.cor.net/AnimalShelter/homepage.html
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The Human Society of the US has GREAT pet owner resources and educational information. Their website has information about all types of animals, but here is
a link to directing you specifically to pets.
