Cat owners BEWARE of Lilies

PiKe said:
That's not quite the same.
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It is. That's why I said "fairly common knowledge", in that some people might not know about it because they've never had a cat, because they're not from a cat owning family, whatever. Where as fire hurting is just common knowledge and if you don't know about it, you've be brought up in a basement by a backwards hick who doesn't believe in the magic orange flame.
 
Captain_Slick said:
:confused:

I've never put my hand in a fire but I still know that it'll burn. Common knowledge is common because it's handed down through generations.
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I never knew this, how could my non cat rearing parents have refrained from parting with such crucial information!? :eek:
 
Captain_Slick said:
:confused:

I've never put my hand in a fire but I still know that it'll burn. Common knowledge is common because it's handed down through generations.
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That's not even remotely the same thing. With fire, you can find out that it's going to burn even if nobody tells you, simply by observing the fact that the closer to the fire something is, the hotter it is.

But the cat-lily thing is nothing like that. If nobody tells you, how can you possibly know? How would you even think to ask "are lilies safe for cats to eat?" if you have previously never even heard the words cat and lily in the same sentence?
 
SlyReaper said:
That's not even remotely the same thing. With fire, you can find out that it's going to burn even if nobody tells you, simply by observing the fact that the closer to the fire something is, the hotter it is.

But the cat-lily thing is nothing like that. If nobody tells you, how can you possibly know? How would you even think to ask "are lilies safe for cats to eat?" if you have previously never even heard the words cat and lily in the same sentence?
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It's exactly the same. If nobody tells you that fire burns, how can you possibly know without trying it? How can you possibly know that lilies can poison your cat without trying it? Through common knowledge, through people telling you, through your parents warning you.

I just remember being told as a child by my mum not to let our kittens near the lilies she had outside in a planter, and clearly quite a large number of people here know about it through some way or another. Do you think they all tested lilies on their cats to find out?

I used the words 'fairly' because obviously not everyone is from a cat loving family and wouldn't therefore have any reason to know. I wasn't saying that EVERYONE KNOWS THAT DUUURRRR obviously.
 
I guess the big difference is that you get warned that the fire is going to burn by the increased pain as you approach it - its pretty black and white with a poisoning like this, you either get told or you find out the hard way.

If even one person reads this thread and learns it for the first time then its done its job. It would seem they have and it has.

on a side note grapes (and grape derivatives) have a similar effect on dogs, so keep raisins away from fido.
 
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