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As we are deep within the busy festive period, we would like to share an interesting case we have received a call about. Jack’s owner contacted us after she chewed [...]

Merry Christmas from the VPIS! Just a reminder if you need us over the festive period - we are available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Animal PoisonLine [...]

Christmas means chocolate! Christmas is associated with an excess of food and top of the list is chocolate. This of course means an increase in cases of accidental ingestion in [...]

There are plenty of holiday hazards for pets around the house at Christmas time, including batteries- powering lights, decorations and presents, it is important to keep any batteries out of [...]

In the run up to Christmas please can we thank all veterinary professionals for recommending Animal PoisonLine to their clients. Please can we remind you that the Animal PoisonLine telephone [...]

With winter here, it is no surprise that today is Homemade Bread Day. The team here love warm bread dunked in some hot soup to warm up in the evening [...]

With left over Halloween chocolate in houses and tins of chocolate in the shops it is important to ensure chocolate is kept away from pets. Chocolate contains a chemical called [...]

Today is Guy Fawkes night, we hope you all have a lovely evening. At VPIS and AnimalPoisonLine, we also receive a number of enquiries each year about animals who have [...]

We receive a lot of enquiries about animals ingesting mushrooms whilst out on a walk or that have appeared in the garden. There are thousands of fungi species in the [...]

Guy Fawkes is approaching and therefore sparklers are about! Sparklers only cause gastrointestinal upset if ingested but a burning sparkler has a very high temperature and will cause burns if [...]

Plums, and other stoned fruits (as well as the tree they grow on) contain cyanogenic glycosides. Ingestion of cyanogenic glycoside-containing material can cause cyanide toxicity, although this is rare. Most [...]

Happy Halloween! As a popular addition to the doorstep at Halloween, pumpkins, which belong to the Cucurbitaceae (gourd) family may be eaten by pets. Fruits of these plants can contain [...]

The weeks surrounding Halloween are usually one of the busiest periods of the year for our team at the VPIS and APL. The season presents many potential hazards to pets, [...]

Bonfire night is not the only day to be cautious of fireworks, with the whole month seeing an increased prevalence of these mini explosives. Fireworks are a class of low [...]