MARđť•Ź :unverifiable:Mar 28, 2024
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As Easter gets closer, please remember and spread the words that lilies are DEADLY for cats. "The entire lily plant is toxic: the stem, leaves, flowers, pollen, and even the water in a vase. Eating just a small amount of a leaf or flower petal, licking a few pollen grains off its fur while grooming, or drinking the water from the vase can cause your cat to develop fatal kidney failure in less than 3 days." https://www.fda.gov/animal-veterinary/animal-health-literacy/lovely-lilies-and-curious-cats-dangerous-combination#:~:text=The%20entire%20lily%20plant%20is,in%20less%20than%203%20days.
Lovely Lilies and Curious Cats: A Dangerous Combination

Lilies in the “true lily” and “daylily” families are very dangerous for cats.

U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Mar 22, 2024 at 9:34pmWeb
Show threadMatthias Rex 🦣Mar 22, 2024
@CatsOfYore An easy thing to avoid having in the house; I love my cats a million times more than I could ever love dead, cut flowers in a vase.
Show threadCallalilyMar 22, 2024
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I never get them.
Show threadReverendRefMar 22, 2024
@CatsOfYore They also tend to close up the air passages of this priest, so lilies in the church are prohibited—unless, of course, they want a new priest.
Show threadTimMar 23, 2024

@CatsOfYore I don’t not think this is real but also here’s Lucy 11 years ago covered in lily pollen and tonight.

(I have since learned it’s dangerous)

Show threadDagnabbit, Pascaline! đź’ĄMar 23, 2024
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Yes.
And they keep using them in bouquets 🙄
Show threadJillMar 23, 2024
@CatsOfYore The smell should signal danger. Loath it.
Show threadPaitMar 23, 2024
@CatsOfYore Is that a way of making my garden safer for birds?
Show threadJohn Carlsen 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇪🇺Mar 23, 2024

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It's ironic that so many people celebrate the re-animation of zombie Jesus by brining into their homes something that is deadly to house cats.

Show threadTim MooreMar 24, 2024
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Cats evolved in the Mediterranean region where there are a few lilly species. Cats generally avoid things bad for them, although we keep increasing the number of hazards they haven't evolved to avoid yet. They might have "learned" to stay clear of fields of lilies, much to the relief of the field mice. Nonetheless, thanks for the warning. I won't bring any lilies home or plant any into the garden (they are also hazardous to small children). Now what to do with the oleanders.