Top 10 Toxic Plants for Cats and Dogs: Keep Your Pets S

Many autumn and winter plants pose a significant toxicity risk to dogs:

1. Holly. This plant, often found around Christmas, can cause dogs to experience severe vomiting, diarrhea, and even depression.

2. Datura. If ingested by dogs, this plant can lead to symptoms such as vomiting, diarrhea, depression, loss of appetite, tremors, drooling, and abdominal pain.

3. Mistletoe. Another Christmas plant, mistletoe can also cause severe vomiting and diarrhea. In cases of excessive ingestion, dogs may suffer from difficulty breathing, a slowed heart rate, and even hallucinations.

4. Poinsettia. While this plant may cause mild irritation to a dog's mouth and stomach, leading to vomiting, it is actually less toxic than commonly believed.

5. Christmas, Thanksgiving, and Easter cacti. These plants are considered to have low toxicity. In small amounts, they are generally harmless, but excessive ingestion can result in vomiting, diarrhea, and depression.

Some less common toxic winter plants include:

1. American nightshade. Consumption can lead to weakness, vomiting, and seizures.

2. Bitter nightshade. It can cause symptoms like drooling, vomiting, diarrhea, depression, loss of appetite, weakness, confusion, and a slow heart rate.

3. Chrysanthemums. Ingestion may result in vomiting, diarrhea, depression, drooling, and loss of appetite.

4. Christmas rose. It can cause abdominal pain, vomiting, bloody diarrhea, and confusion.

5. Christmas coral. Consumption can lead to vomiting, diarrhea, mouth ulcers, seizures, depression, respiratory depression, shock, and even death.

6. Colchicum. The ingestion of its bulbs can cause oral irritation, blood vomiting, diarrhea, shock, kidney failure, liver damage, and bone marrow suppression.

7. Christmas palm. This plant is generally nontoxic.

8. Christmas orchid. It is also considered nontoxic.

9. Christmas sword fern. This plant is believed to be nontoxic.

10. Mistletoe cactus. This plant is thought to be nontoxic.

11. Nettle. Consumption can cause vomiting, diarrhea, depression, and loss of appetite.