Healthy Paws Pet Insurance & Foundation Advises Pet Parents that Holiday Pet ER Visits are Preventable
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This holiday season, the leading U.S. pet health insurance provider has set out to ensure that all holiday festivities are safe and enjoyable for our four-legged family members.
To help pet parents with this important task,
“Each year, thousands of pets are brought to emergency rooms due to holiday-related illnesses and injuries such as ingesting holiday decorations or plants, ligament injuries from scaling holiday decorations and over-excitement from holiday guests,” Healthy Paws’
To that end, Siadek recommends pet parents print out, review and prominently post the following list within the home:
• Injury: Ligament Tears and Damage
Common Causes: Climbing on holiday decorations such as Christmas trees or slipping from banisters trying to get to decorations; jumping off of a deck in the snow; slipping on ice; playing hard with kids on holiday break or guests.
Prevention: When possible, pets should be kept on leashes and closely monitored by pet parents when outdoors. Discourage rowdy play with pets. Keep an eye on pets’ interactions with holiday decorations and adjust as necessary.
• Injury: Poisoning (Toxicity)
Common Causes: Ingestion of chocolate, sugarless candies with xylitol, poinsettias, mistletoe, holly and Christmas tree needles.
Prevention: Ensure all holiday treats are kept in re-sealable containers that prevent access by pets. Also ensure any candies that fall on the floor are immediately cleaned up.
• Injury: Vomiting and Diarrhea
Common Causes: Over-ingestion of human holiday foods and fatty scraps.
Prevention: Discourage family and guests from feeding pets and make sure trash bags and cans are tightly sealed to prevent scavenging.
• Injury: Foreign Body Ingestion
Common Causes: Play with tinsel, small holiday trinkets, materials used to wrap gifts and ornaments may lead to accidental ingestion.
Prevention: Ensure holiday decorations and toys are kept off floors and are hung higher than a pet’s eye level. Look for signs of distress in pets and any unusual behavior that may indicate accidental ingestion.
Of course, not all holiday-related injuries are preventable, which is why it’s important for pet parents to have pet health insurance, Siadek said.
“Just like with small children, pet parents do their best to keep pets safe during the holidays,” Siadek said. “But in the case where an unpreventable holiday illness or injury occurs, it’s important that pets are properly insured. This will allow an ER to perform the best, most advanced treatment while limiting the financial burden for pet parents.”
For more information about Healthy Paws’ pet insurance policies, including free quotes, please visit http://www.healthypawspetinsurance.com.
About Healthy Paws Pet Insurance & Foundation®
Now, Healthy Paws is one of the leading pet insurers in the U.S. and ranked No. 1 by customers on PetInsuranceReview.com. The company is backed by
Through their 501(c)(3) non-profit organization,
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