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Pet safety through the year

Ask your vet about your own pet. This page is general information from the sources below.

At holiday times, the dangers for pets are food, plants, decorations and noise. The AVMA and the ASPCA both say to keep people food and plants out of reach, give pets a quiet room when guests come, and keep ID and microchip details current. If your pet eats something it shouldn't, call your vet or a poison line straight away.

Checked October 29, 2026.

By Peabody editors. How we write and check.

WhenWhat to watch forPage
NovemberThanksgiving: bones, fatty scraps, onions and garlic, grapes and raisins, pies and raw doughThanksgiving pet safety
DecemberThe winter holidays: lilies, mistletoe and holly, tinsel, tree water, chocolate, visitorsHoliday pet safety
December 31 and July 4Fireworks: frightened pets run, so ID, microchips and a quiet room; debris in the yard afterwardFireworks and pets

Poison emergency? Call now

ASPCA Animal Poison Control: (888) 426-4435, 24 hours a day, every day. A consultation fee may apply.
Pet Poison Helpline: (855) 764-7661, 24/7. $99 per incident, follow-up calls included.
Or call your vet or the nearest emergency vet.

Every season: be ready before you need it

  • Know the way to your nearest 24-hour emergency vet, and keep its number with your own vet's and the two poison lines (AVMA).
  • Keep your pet's microchip details current in the registry, and its tag up to date (AVMA).
  • Keep medicines, yours and your guests', in a closed cabinet (ASPCA).

Every page here quotes the ASPCA's and the AVMA's own guidance and links to it. None gives amounts or doses: whether an amount is dangerous depends on the pet, so that's a question for your vet or a poison line.

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