I think animals are smarter than people. Most animals won't eat poisonous
plants. Koi leave taro alone. My dogs and the squirrels and chipmunks
leave the castor bean alone. People on the other hand will try nearly
anything. Look at some of the stupid things they put in their mouths on
those reality TV programs.
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"~ jan" wrote in message
...
I have to agree with Nedra... there is always the exception of having an
animal that either accidentally, or of low intelligence, eats something it
shouldn't, but I've yet to lose an animal to eating either house or
outside
plants and I'm sure many are poisonous depending on how much is ingested.
This includes plants I use in the ponds with my fish. Btw, when I had
cats
I put my Peace Lily on the deck where they hung out most of the time and
they never bothered it. ~ jan


On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 18:03:22 GMT, "Nedra" wrote:

Thanks for the link to that List! Holy Cow... every plant I
have - both indoor and outdoor - is on that List. I do have two
cats. So, where are we on the Peace Lily?? It doesn't occupy
any prominence on the list.

I'd say just ignore the warning ... that is what I would do if
I had the Peace Lily :O)

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"sevans" wrote in message
...
Here is a good website to check for plants toxic to cats:

http://www.cfainc.org/articles/plants.html

I would think if it is toxic to cats, it is best to keep dogs away,
too?
(Just to be safe!)

Sharon

John Rutz wrote:

Sue Walsh wrote:
I agree with Jan, I grew a peace lily in my barrel garden and it
did
fantastic. I just washed all the soil off the roots and put it in
the
barrel and off it went.

It should be noted however, that peace lily is DEADLY TO CATS, so
if
you own a cat you should not use this plant. A vet told me that
there
is nothing anyone can do if a cat eats the leaves of peace lily,
the
cat will die. I am very serious about this. As soon as I found
this
out I removed the peace lily from my barrel garden as my cat lived
in
the same area that it was located in.
Just a heads up, no cats, go for the peace lily.

P.S. It is not harmful to dogs, just cats.

Sue

interesting
there was a local news storie that lilies were poison to cats
oriental
tiger and daylilies were mentioned, now peace lilies
the thing is that bothers me there are three different plants here
Lilium , Hemoracolis, and Spathiphylum

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