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Page 18| Abby's Magazine - www.AbbysHealthAndNutrition.com e holiday season should be a time of celebration, reflection, forgiveness, compassion, and love with family, friends and community. It is also a time filled with changes in schedules, travel, household hazards and stress! Please use this guide to increase your pet's safety this holiday season! Food Safety 1. Keep pet's eating and exercise routines as normal as possible. 2. Avoid greasy or spicy holiday foods and leovers. 3. Avoid chocolate and cocoa. 4. Avoid anything sweetened with xylitol (candies and chewing gum)! 5. Safeguard alcoholic drinks. Don't leave open containers and cups in pets' reach. 6. Cover desserts containing alcohol and unbaked dough that contains yeast. 7. Keep tobacco products like cigarettes, cigars, tobacco, nicotine gum and patches, and ashtrays out of reach. Empty ashtrays frequently since cigarette butts contain about 25% of the total nicotine in a cigarette. 8. Cover foods containing macadamia nuts, grapes, raisins, and currants. Pet Safety Guide For The Holiday Season By Dr. Marlene Siegel 9. Don't leave unattended plates of food on tables or counters. 10. Remove garbage bags oen and pet proof garbage cans by securing the lids on. 11. Advise guests to NOT feed the animals! Consider isolating pets to a bedroom or board them at a facility, family or friends house. Environmental Safety Tips 1. Safely dispose plastic or aluminum foil used during cooking. 2. Meat-soaked strings from rump roasts can result in a life threatening linear string foreign body. 3. To avoid escaping out of the house, confine pets to a room or boarding facility. 4. Avoid toxic holiday plants like poinsettia plants, holly, mistletoe, hibiscus and lilies. Lilies include tiger, Asiatic, stargazer, Easter and day lilies. 5. Securely anchor the Christmas tree so it doesn't tip and fall. Consider anchoring to the ceiling with a string. 6. If possible place the tree in a corner and place things around the base that will act either as a barrier or will make noise and warn you of impending pet intrusion. 7. Create a barrier to cats climbing the tree. Options include commercial scat mats and invisible fence indoor barriers. 8. Keep the area free and clear of pine needles. 9. Don't allow pets access to the tree water, and don't put aspirin in the tree water. 10. Check labels on artificial snow, Angel hair, and flocking. Buy only those that are nontoxic.