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Coffee grounds and pets- Warning

Jon 6a SE MA
10 years ago

Thinking about the post on free Starbucks coffee grounds I remembered how Cocoa husks can be poison to pets and checked on coffee grounds..........

'Threat to pets:

Pets are more sensitive to the effects of caffeine than people are. While 1-2 laps of coffee, tea or soda will not contain enough caffeine to cause poisoning in most pets, the ingestion of moderate amounts of coffee grounds, tea bags.......can easily cause death in small dogs or cats.'

I still think grounds are great. My dog doesn't run loose and it is not much of a consideration for me, but if your pets are fenced in and can have access to grounds it would be a good idea to mix grounds into the soil (or put them in the compost pile) to avoid possible poisoning.

Jon

Here is a link that might be useful: Coffee grounds poisoning

This post was edited by jonnyb023 on Sun, Jan 26, 14 at 9:39

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