Christmas is just around the corner and many people want to decorate their homes with beautiful Christmas flowers. Something that can be devastating for the cat. Several plants that are popular to have indoors at Christmas can be poisonous to cats.
News24 have talked to Pernilla Melander, press contact at Agria about which Christmas flowers are toxic to cats and what symptoms they can cause.
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Pernilla Melander also explains what you can do if you still want nice flowers inside for Christmas.
– But you don’t have to avoid unusual Christmas flowers – often it’s enough to put poisonous plants in a place where the cat can’t reach them, or simply avoid the most poisonous flowers, she tells Nyheter24.
She also says that in most cases it is not the flower itself that is poisonous but the bulb.
– In several cases, it is above all the onion that is poisonous – tulip, amaryllis, hyacinth – while the plant itself is less dangerous. Then the cat owner can put a bouquet of cut flowers in a vase instead.