{"id":746,"date":"2020-08-31T19:09:13","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T19:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/?p=746"},"modified":"2020-08-31T19:09:15","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T19:09:15","slug":"welcome-to-the-jungle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/?p=746","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Jungle&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Recently, I&#8217;ve been seeing a resurgence in stories on the internet regarding toxic poisoning to animals through plants in the home. Predominantly, it seems to be the fatalities caused in cats by lilies. <br><br>From a behavioural point of view, a lot of cats are prone to nibbling plants. It&#8217;s been known for some time that cat grass can aid digestion, and catnip produces a &#8220;feel good&#8221; factor for cats when it&#8217;s ingested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">A few years ago, there was pressure for places like supermarkets to label their lilies with a warning. While some companies listened to the request and put a small snippet of information on that particular species, there&#8217;s very little on plant packaging that details the potential risk to companion animals on others. <br><br>With this in mind and following on from a fairly recent blog post,(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/?p=728\">https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/?p=728<\/a>) I feel it may be necessary for suppliers to start using a &#8220;traffic light system&#8221; on the plants that are readily available to purchase for homes and gardens gauging toxicity levels to animals. This means that a red circle would represent that a plant is highly toxic and green would indicate a plant was harmless. <br><br>I created a rough template for the concept, which could be tailored by companies to fit on their product labels. During the next few weeks, I plan to contact the larger UK supermarkets to discuss how this plan could be put into place.<br><br><strong><em>Safety information for companion animals:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"293\" height=\"430\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/image-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-823\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/image-4.png 293w, https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/image-4-204x300.png 204w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 293px) 100vw, 293px\" \/><figcaption>                          <em>Proposed basic label format&#8230;<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I&#8217;ve been seeing a resurgence in stories on the internet regarding toxic poisoning to animals through plants in the home. Predominantly, it seems to be the fatalities caused in cats by lilies. From a behavioural point of view, a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":838,"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions\/838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ailurophile.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}