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Keeping pets safe

Keep Your Pets Safe!

 

 

This year, March 15-21 has been set aside to commemorate National Poison Prevention Week. Once again, it is time to highlight this annual event. While this is an excellent time to set aside to evaluate your home’s safety to protect you and your family, it is also the purrfect time to secure any poisonous items in your home so your pets are also out of danger. The ASPCA has provided some excellent information to remind pet owners about the common items in and around our homes which are highly toxic to our beloved fur friends. If you suspect that your pet has ingested any of these substances, call your vet immediately, or call the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center’s 24-hour hotline at (888) 426-4435.

Common Painkillers and Anti-inflammatory Human Medications: Aspirin, ibuprofen or naproxen and other NSAIDS are among the top ten toxic drugs that are in most of our medicine chests. Highly toxic to small animals, they can cause stomach and intestinal ulcers and can cause kidney damage in cats. Acetaminophen is another dangerous drug for both cats and dogs. Cats are particularly sensitive it, and it can cause damage to red blood cells, and in dogs can cause liver damage and destruction of red blood cells. It is imperative to keep all medications safely stored away in containers and cabinets inaccessible to pets.

 For a list of the top-ten medications toxic to pets, visit: http://www.aspca.org/pet-care/poison-control/top-10-human-medications-that-poison-our-pets.html

Medications prescribed for pets should also be stored safely. What is appropriate for your dog may not be safe for your cat. Do not treat your pet with any veterinary medication without consulting your veterinarian.

Human Foods: While giving our pets an occasional treat of “people” food now and again, caution should be exercised about which foods we can safely share. Grapes, raisins, some citrus fruits and avocado are some of the fruits that can cause serious problems for our pets. That tempting chocolate bar is fine for humans, but contains a large amount of methylxanthines and can cause serious digestive disturbances, hyperactivity, abnormal heart rhythms, excessive thirst and urination, tremors and seizures. Onions are toxic to both cats and dogs as it contains allyl propyl disulfide, which can lead to anemia because it causes red blood cells to rupture. It is present in garlic as well, but not to the same degree. When you are cooking with these ingredients care must be taken not to let pieces fall on the floor, where a hungry dog or cat might be tempted to consume it. Do not feed anything containing onions to pets.

Insectides and rodenticides: Insecticides and rodenticides should be used with caution. Most of them are highly toxic to pets, and need to be stored safely. Also do make sure that any flea products used are safe for your pet. Some of these products are dangerous. So do check with your vet prior to using them. Plants: Many common plants used in and around the home are azaleas, rhododendrons, sago palms, lilies, kalanchoe and schefflera. As they are highly toxic they should not be part of your horticultural planning, especially if your pets are permitted access to your yard. With Easter on the horizon, care needs to be taken to avoid Lilies. They are especially toxic to felines even in small amounts and can lead to kidney failure. For a list of the 17 most toxic plants to pets, visit: http://www.aspca.org/pet-care/poison-control/17-common-poisonous-plants.html and for a more comprehensive list, visit: http://www.sniksnak.com/plants-toxic.html

Household Cleaners, chemicals: These are potential threats to your pet’s safety. Anti-freeze, one of the leading causes of pet poisoning should always be safely stored and out of reach of your pets. Never confine your pet in the garage. For more information visit: http://www.aspca.org/pet-care/poison-control/top-10-pet-poisons-of-2008.html and http://www.poisonprevention.org/poison.htm

copied from aspca.org. 

 

 

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World Hunger

The world hunger problem: Facts, figures and statistics

 

• In the Asian, African and Latin American countries, well over 500 million people are living in what the World Bank has called “absolute poverty”
• Every year 15 million children die of hunger
• For the price of one missile, a school full of hungry children could eat lunch every day for 5 years
• Throughout the 1990’s more than 100 million children will die from illness and starvation. Those 100 million deaths could be prevented for the price of ten Stealth bombers, or what the world spends on its military in two days!
• The World Health Organization estimates that one-third of the world is well-fed, one-third is under-fed one-third is starving- Since you’ve entered this site at least 200 people have died of starvation. Over 4 million will die this year.
• One in twelve people worldwide is malnourished, including 160 million children under the age of 5. United Nations Food and Agriculture
• The Indian subcontinent has nearly half the world’s hungry people. Africa and the rest of Asia together have approximately 40%, and the remaining hungry people are found in Latin America and other parts of the world. Hunger in Global Economy
• Nearly one in four people, 1.3 billion – a majority of humanity – live on less than $1 per day, while the world’s 358 billionaires have assets exceeding the combined annual incomes of countries with 45 percent of the world’s people. UNICEF
• 3 billion people in the world today struggle to survive on US$2/day.
• In 1994 the Urban Institute in Washington DC estimated that one out of 6 elderly people in the U.S. has an inadequate diet.
• In the U.S. hunger and race are related. In 1991 46% of African-American children were chronically hungry, and 40% of Latino children were chronically hungry compared to 16% of white children.
• The infant mortality rate is closely linked to inadequate nutrition among pregnant women. The U.S. ranks 23rd among industrial nations in infant mortality. African-American infants die at nearly twice the rate of white infants.
• One out of every eight children under the age of twelve in the U.S. goes to bed hungry every night.
• Half of all children under five years of age in South Asia and one third of those in sub-Saharan Africa are malnourished.
• In 1997 alone, the lives of at least 300,000 young children were saved by vitamin A supplementation programmes in developing countries.
• Malnutrition is implicated in more than half of all child deaths worldwide – a proportion unmatched by any infectious disease since the Black Death
• About 183 million children weigh less than they should for their age
• To satisfy the world’s sanitation and food requirements would cost only US$13 billion- what the people of the United States and the European Union spend on perfume each year.
• The assets of the world’s three richest men are more than the combined GNP of all the least developed countries on the planet.
• Every 3.6 seconds someone dies of hunger
• It is estimated that some 800 million people in the world suffer from hunger and malnutrition, about 100 times as many as those who actually die from it each year.
• from:  http://library.thinkquest.org/C002291/high/present/who.htm
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