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Home » Health » How To Store Indoor Hazards Away From Your Dog

How To Store Indoor Hazards Away From Your Dog

Dogs and puppies can easily and accidently expose themselves to hazards. Take a few minutes to remove and store hazards that loom inside your home.

Medications

All medications, regardless if human or canine; should be stored in tightly closed top cabinets. While it’s tempting to keep medication within arms reach, it’s not worth the risk to your pet. So many times, dog owners will leave dog medications on top of kitchen or bathroom counters, and their dog grabs, chews up the bottle and ingests all medications, which can be deadly. Many chewable dog or children medications are very attractive to dogs, so keep all medications in upper cabinets.

Cleaning Products

For the most part, dog owners should be using chemical free options because they work very effectively. If not, store all cleaning products behind closed doors, such as inside a pantry. If cleaning products must be stores in lower cabinets, invest in childproof locks to prevent dogs from opening cabinet doors and ingesting harmful chemicals.

Food

Store all food in refrigerators, tightly closed cabinet doors and pantries. No food should be left on top of counter tops, unless it’s inside a tightly closed container. Food, inside plastic bags, are easily destroyed and consumed, plus plastic can be a choking hazard or cause an obstruction. Take a moment and make sure your dog’s peanut butter or treats do not contain xylitol, onions, chocolate, grapes, raisins, macadamia nuts or fatty foods. Also, don’t forget to invest in a tall, heavy lid trashcan, with a foot pedal opener. This type of trashcan is not easily opened by small, medium or large dogs.  If a dog has learned how to open a heavy smooth trashcan lid, then keep the trashcan behind a closed cabinet or pantry door.

Pesticides

Keep all pesticides, such as insecticides and rat poison, in the garage. Store in tightly closed plastic containers and place on high shelving. Pesticides are deadly, even to dogs, so keep them out of reach. Hopefully, owners are using natural options, such as cedar and peppermint oils, which are extremely effective at deterring pests from hanging around their home. If not, they should consider switching to natural options.

Take a few moments and follow these tips. We assume it will never happen to our dog, until it does.

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  1. Ayokunnumi A. E says

    January 24, 2020

    Great and insightful article.
    My experience with dogs have proven how “prevention is better than care”.
    Sometimes, even the well trained and smart dogs do some “not so cool” things. In such instances, you have to be very cautious as exemplified in this articles.
    For instance, when I cannot take the hazardous stuffs away, I use dog repellent ingredients such as chili, vinegar, among others.

    Thanks once again for this insightful article and job on your site!

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