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2naSalit

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4. Years ago...

Reply to sl8 (Original post)

Tue Dec 23, 2025, 12:16 PM

Tuesday

I lived in a place with roommates, we all had cats. One day we discovered one of them was acting like she was on LSD or something, freaking out at everything that moved. We had to isolate her in the bathroom while we searched the house to see if she got into anything weird. She was vomiting as well.

We found the poinsettia had been chewed on, at least three leaves were damaged. She had been eating that, apparently. She was in a weird state for the rest of the night and then slept heavily for the next day and it took her another day before she would eat. We decided that poinsettias were poison for cats and that they should stay outside. Being San Diego, they were plentiful as outdoor shrubs so we left them out there.

Out of precaution, I never bought poinsettias when there cats in my home after that.

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