Animal Poison by ASPCA 12+
Animal Poison Control Center
ASPCA
Designed for iPad
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- Free
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Description
Did your pet eat chocolate? A poisonous plant? Your medication? There are potential pet poisoning concerns all around us—in our homes, our yards, barns, fields, etc. All too often pets are endangered as a result of their natural curiosity. If you think your pet may have ingested a potentially poisonous substance, contact your local veterinarian or the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center at 888.426.4435.
Focusing on dogs, cats, horses, and birds, the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center’s (APCC) free mobile app helps owners quickly identify over 300 potential everyday hazards, providing crucial information about the severity of the problem and critical next steps.
Information in the app comes from the expert veterinary staff at the ASPCA’s Animal Poison Control Center, which has handled over 2.5 million cases of pets exposed to potentially toxic substances.
Animal Poison App Features:
- A searchable database of hundreds of different substances
including: household hazards, medications, warm weather
toxins, and cold weather toxins commonly found in or around
an animal’s surroundings.
- Details for each toxin including: scientific name, common
names, sample images, severity of exposure, and potential
symptoms for at-risk dogs, cats, horses, and birds
- Color-coding to help you identify the toxins of most concern
- Chocolate and rodenticide poison calculators
- One-touch speed-dialing to the ASPCA Animal Poison
Control Center
- Online and offline access to app information
- Access to APCC online resources
- Information about APCC podcasts, speaking engagements,
and other events
Please note that the information located in the app is not meant to be all-inclusive, but rather a compilation of the most frequently encountered toxins.
For questions, or if you are having any issues downloading our free app, please contact our Client Services department at clientservices@aspca.org or submit your questions in the Feedback tab located within the app.
What’s New
Version 2.2.3
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Thanks for using Animal Poison by ASPCA! You gave feedback and we listened! We've added an all new design, new calculators, new common name search capability, new features, the ability to give feedback in the app and more!
Ratings and Reviews
Lack of info/no reasonable way to look up
If you are a scientist in need of limited info, this is the app for you. I don’t get it. This used to be an excellent app. They have redone it by removing information & unless you know the scientific name of anything, made it impossible to find. Most people whom use this app aren’t scientists, were regular people scared to death & in need of real information right now that’s easy to get too. Even if you do know the scientific name, it’s unlikely there. This used to be filled with endless potential poisons. Now there are only a handful. This went from an excellent app to a complete waste of time & that time being your pets life.
Excellent resource
Simple to use, precise and to the point information. People complain about the categories and the fact that items are listed under scientific names, but they seem to have overlooked the fact that the app also has a search function that works very well, so that you don’t have to scroll through categories. If your search is not returning a result, simply google the product in question to see if there is an alternate name. I was able to search garlic, vitamin b, oxycodone, and phenylephrine with no difficulty. When Sudafed didn’t return a result, I googled Sudafed and punched pseudoephedrine (the active ingredient) into the app instead, which gave me the result I was looking for.
This app will neither diagnose your pet’s symptoms nor tell you if what/how much your pet ingested WILL cause a problem- an app cannot practice veterinary medicine. However, this app is a good first step to determine whether you should seek additional assistance. In order to properly utilize the tool and appreciate it, it’s helpful to understand its purpose.
Not designed for quick access
As others have pointed out, most everything is classified by scientific names. It would be helpful to have an index of common names.
More importantly, there’s no ability to search by symptom rather than specific poisons. Pet owners are likely to know there’s a problem in advance of knowing what caused the problem, so why not have the option to start here? There should at least be enough to help establish a possible triage priority, or the app should urge pet owners to call the vet immediately if they don’t know the source of the problem and the symptom may point to a severe problem.
The app is a promising resource. I’m eager to see how it develops, and I’ll gladly raise my rating as it does!
App Privacy
The developer, ASPCA, has not provided details about its privacy practices and handling of data to Apple.
No Details Provided
The developer will be required to provide privacy details when they submit their next app update.
Information
- Seller
- American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
- Size
- 29.7 MB
- Category
- Reference
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 9.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 9.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 9.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 12+ Infrequent/Mild Medical/Treatment Information
- Copyright
- © 2018 ASPCA
- Price
- Free