Show HN: Is It Toxic To? – Check if a plant is toxic to your pets
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All information is from the ASPCA's list of toxic plants (https://www.aspca.org/pet-care/animal-poison-control/toxic-a...)
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One plant I've researched for my puppy is Morning Glory. First, one needs to clarify leaves? flowers? seeds? And there are many varieties of vine called "Morning Glory", both annual and perennial.
Those of us of a certain age learned in high school to recite the specific varieties of annual morning glories whose seeds contained lysergic acid amide, offering the shortest path to synthesizing lysergic acid diethylamide, aka LSD. I recall Heavenly Blue and Pearly Gates. Other varieties are of less interest.
(I was banned from my high school chem lab, but not for LSD. A friend's brother researched short-acting hallucinogens too obscure to make illegal, and picked a relatively safe synthesis for us. He forgot to mention it would coat the lab in a white precipitate.)
That would be the morning glory described in the sketchy entry here. Yes, err on the side of caution, if convenient. If one has spent twenty years cultivating a shade wall of perennial morning glory, and the puppy chews the occasional leaf without swallowing, there's no cause to rip it all out.
Fortunately, NH4Cl is not especially dangerous, although I can’t imagine that inhaling it is a great idea.
Adding stuff like plain old “sugar” would be useful.
Also, aren’t grapes bad for dogs? By searching “grape” there are many results that, without something like a photo or a link to Wikipedia, makes it hard to know if that’s the thing I’m looking for. I don’t know the botanical family of a grape.
Yeah, it's the tartaric acid and cream of tartar (which can be used to make homemade playdough) that is toxic to dogs, grape juice won't harm a dog but whole grapes will cause kidney damage. Tamarinds apparently also high in tartaric acid. Article on it: https://avmajournals.avma.org/view/journals/javma/258/7/javm...
I searched for "onion" because I knew it was toxic to cats and dogs. I had to scroll down to find it. IMO, if there is an exact match, it should bypass the sort order and be promoted straight to the top.
Otherwise, pretty cool! I think it will be very useful.
It’s probably not information you could easily add. But having access to information that differentiates between toxic meaning diarrhea vs toxic meaning likely fatal would be incredible useful to dog owners. Of course this is also likely dose/body weight relative as well.
Similarly, there is also a lot of misinformation out in social media and random blogs about toxicity. There are many common houseplants that your pet probably shouldn’t eat, but only a few are actually alarming if they do. We’ve learned just because you can find something at the top of Google doesn’t make it true, and for some reason plant toxicity is really subject to a lot of misinformation.
that said, the "Clinical signs" section of each item might give u a little more information about how toxic the plant is
The vet told us it was toxic to dogs, but it seems to not be listed in this and in my googling just now after not seeing it, I find that it's generally regarded "a safe healthy treat for dogs"...
I'm curious if the Internet is wrong or if maybe the vet was wrong and my dad's dog may have just had some sort of allergy
Lots of plants are apparently toxic for dogs. Garlic, onions, etc. But whereas your poodle might die from one bite, my fat seal of a husky would have to eat an entire clove, or a bag of them. I freaked out when she ate a chocolate bar but she was fine...no incident at all.
Small dogs are most at risk for obvious reasons.
Dosage matters.
A single search yields a lot more useful and detailed explanations of both the risk and acceptable parts of an apple than this interface.
- because you mixed it with something they do eat. For example, onions in gravy. Onions are very toxic to cats but they are unlikely to eat a raw one. A nice beef or chicken gravy however, is much more palatable.
- because extracts are dissolved in a liquid, and the cat gets that on their fur, which they then lick. Example: Aloe Vera scent spray.
> Onions are very toxic to cats but they are unlikely to eat a raw one.
Just so anyone reading this knows: Cooking onions does not reduce toxicity for cats. (As dangerous if not more depending on concentration, think onion sauce reductions)
Thanks for building this