Bloody cat has eaten my sweet pea seedlings

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And I have read they are poisonous . Does anyone know how serious this is? It's the first leaves off about 6 seedlings. She's a big cat.

I know I'm going to be told to take her to the vet. But it's my dd's birthday party in a couple of hours and I'm a single parent. Sodding cat is currently completely fine. She's eaten her breakfast etc. Purring on dd's lap.

I actually have two cats. I'm pretty sure I know which one it is as the other cat doesn't jump up on the kitchen side .

This seems to be a more thorough answer then some websites
www.pawsdogdaycare.com/toxic-and-non-toxic-plants/sweet-pea

If you’re googling, check that they’re talking about Sweet Pea Lathyrus odoratus, not Perennial Sweet Pea Lathyrus latifolius.

Thank you. She is still being her normal self, so I'm hoping we've got through it unscathed.

I've put the seedlings in my unheated greenhouse. There are a few not yet germinated unfortunately.

The ones she's nibbled the leaves off...are they likely to survive? Just wondering if I should give up on them and start again.

If she’s nibbled below the cotyledons (the seed leaves, the fleshy first pair if leaves) they won’t survive. If you still have the cotyledons, they still probably won’t survive. They’ve a better chance if you have atleast the stems of true leaves - there’s a growth point in the angle where the leaf stem meets the main stem from which new growth can arise.

Glad the cat's OK. Hope the peas are too.

They still looked ok yesterday. But yes, it was the seedling leaves. Thankfully, not all the seedlings had got to that stage but now she's nibbled them off it's hard to work out which ones have lost them and which ones just haven't sprouted yet.

She is a bloody pest. But v lovable. She has definitely got through unscathed by her overnight feast.

Thought I’d write here since I found this thread when one of our cats nibbled our sweet pea seedlings (also odoratus), in case it helps the next nervous wreck.

It’s now been a week and he seems fine, thankfully.

It happened overnight so we had no idea if it was 5 minutes previously or several hours. It was probably upwards of 6 leaves - we had before and after pictures and that’s how many were missing.

We were really worried because of a lot of web sites saying it’s pretty toxic. But we thankfully never saw any symptoms - no tiredness, vomiting etc.

We called the emergency vet (happened on a weekend) who said they could not find anything in their references about it being toxic. They said they could call some hotline to check but this would cost over £100. We declined.

We also talked to FirstVet (included in our insurance) who said that we could bring him in but all the vet could do is induce vomiting and give him activated charcoal to maybe get some out of the system if it was digested quite recently. Other than that they could just mitigate symptoms.

She also said we could give activated charcoal ourselves, though googling this afterwards suggested it could be very dangerous if not done right.

After a lot of anxious discussion we decided to wait and see if there were any symptoms, since he gets very stressed about the vet, and (much less importantly) it would cost a ton. If we knew he’d just ingested it we would have done so they could induce vomiting etc.