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Foods Potentially Poisonous to Your Pets

The following foods may be dangerous to your pet:

• Alcoholic beverages
• Apple seeds
• Apricot pits
• Avocados—toxic to birds, mice, rabbits, horses, cattle, and dairy goats
• Cherry pits
• Chocolate (baker's, semi-sweet, milk, dark)—poisonous to dogs, cats, and ferrets
• Coffee (grounds, beans, chocolate covered espresso beans)
• Hops (used in home beer brewing)
• Macadamia nuts
• Moldy foods
• Mushroom plants
• Mustard seeds
• Onions and onion powder
• Peach pits
• Potato leaves and stems (green parts)
• Rhubarb leaves Salt Tea (caffeine)
• Tomato leaves and stems (green parts)
• Walnuts Yeast dough

Sources: ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center, The Toronto Humane Society, and St. John's Poison Resource Center

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