Everyday people foods can be toxic to your family pet, but the holidays are a time when the risks are especially high. Do you have leftover Easter basket candy? Halloween treats still hanging around? Thanksgiving and Christmas goodies left over from holiday celebrations? Take a look at this list of foods that are potentially poisonous to animals, and be especially wary of them around the holidays, and year-round.

Foods Potentially Poisonous to Pets

• Alcoholic beverages
• Apple seeds
• Apricot pits
• Avocados – toxic to birds, mice, rabbits, horses, cattle, and dairy goats
• Cherry pits
• Candy (particularly chocolate, which is toxic to dogs, cats, and ferrets, and any candy containing the sweetener Xylitol)
• Coffee (grounds, beans, chocolate covered espresso beans)
• Grapes
• Hops (used in home beer brewing)
• Macadamia nuts
• Moldy foods
• Mushroom plants
• Mustard seeds
• Onions and onion powder
• Peach pits
• Potato leaves and stems (green parts)
• Raisins
• Rhubarb leaves
• Salt
• Tea (caffeine)
• Tomato leaves and stems (green parts)
• Walnuts
• Yeast dough