Dangers of Lily Pollen and Pet Cats

Lily Pollen has been found to be poisonous to cats.

When cats roam and may go through a lily patch. When they do they may rub up against the blooms of the lilies and lily pollen gets on their fur. Later cats lick themselves in their grooming and washing. The pollen on their fur is poisonous to them.

If the cat is an indoor plant, and you have a bouquet of flowers with lilies, the pollen will drop around the arrangement, and can either be licked up by the cat, or get onto their fur and be licked by the cat in their grooming of themselves by licking their fur. Again, that pollen is poisonous to them.

How can this be avoided? One, plant pollen free lilies, and if you buy arrangements of flowers with lilies in them, insist on pollen free lilies. Both will help reduce issues of cats being poisoned by lily pollen.