30 Houseplants That Aren’t Good For Your Dog

#11 Dracaena Fragrans

Its common name is the cornstalk plant. Dracaena fragrans is mildly toxic to pets. Symptoms such as vomiting (sometimes with blood), depression, lack of appetite, drooling.

#12 Cyclamen

Cyclamen is a beautiful flowering annual houseplant that is grown for ornamental purposes. However, cyclamen contains saponins, and if its roots are ingested, it causes some clinical symptoms such as salivation, vomiting, diarrhea. At high intake cardiac, arrhythmia and convulsions are also possible.

#13 Desert Rose (Adenium)

A beautiful succulent that is commonly cultivated as an ornamental plant and can be grown in pots.  Symptoms such as vomiting, diarrhea, anorexia, depression, irregular heartbeat, and death.

#14 Golden Pothos

An excellent climbing plant that can be grown without sun, golden pothos contains insoluble calcium oxalates that can cause mild clinical symptoms if chewed by your dog. Symptoms such as mucous membrane irritation, intense burning, and irritation of the mouth, lips, and tongue, excessive drooling, difficulty in swallowing.

#15 Kalanchoe

A genus of plants of the Crassulaceae family. Kalanchoe is a beautiful common houseplant with flowers. This plant contains a naturally occurring poison that affects the heart. Symptoms such as vomiting, diarrhea, abnormal heart rhythm (rare).

#16 Dracaena

Dracaena is a genus that consists 40 species of woody and shrubby plants. They are found in subtropical and tropical regions of Asia, Africa, and the Canary Islands and commonly grown as the houseplant. Symptoms such as vomiting (sometimes with blood), depression, lack of appetite, drooling.

#17 Eucalyptus

If you are growing eucalyptus as a houseplant and you have a dog then be aware, eucalyptus oil can trigger lethargy and irritate your dog. Symptoms such as salivation, vomiting, diarrhea, depression, weakness.

#18 Flame Lily (Gloriosa Superba)

The ingestion of flame lily has caused many accidental deaths. It has also been used to commit murder, suicide, to induce abortions, and to poison dogs. Symptoms such as salivation, vomiting (bloody), diarrhea (bloody), shock, kidney failure, liver damage, bone marrow suppression, paralysis, death.

#19 Ficus Benjamina

Also called weeping fig. Contact with skin can cause inflammation of the skin, ingestion may irritate the mouth. Similar symptoms occur when pets come in contact with the Rubber tree plant (ficus elastica).

#20 Flamingo Flower (Anthurium Scherzeranum)

Flamingo flower contains calcium oxalates that can irritate the mouth and other mild clinical symptoms if ingested such as mucous membrane irritation, intense burning, and irritation of the mouth, lips, and tongue, excessive drooling, difficulty in swallowing.

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