Are your candy dishes still loaded with Halloween treats? If so, then take a look at the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' (ASPCA) list of potentially poisonous foods. The list includes chocolate, candy and other items that you'll want to keep away from your pet to avoid a real terror the rest of the year.

FOODS POTENTIALLY POISONOUS TO PETS
 
The following foods may be dangerous to your pet:

• Alcoholic beverages
• Apple seeds
• Apricot pits
• Avocados-toxic to birds, mice, rabbits, horses, cattle, and dairy goats
• Cherry pits
• Candy (particularly chocolate, which is toxic to dogs, cats, and ferrets, and any candy containing the sweetener Xylitol)
• Coffee (grounds, beans, chocolate covered espresso beans)
• Grapes
• Hops (used in home beer brewing)
• Macadamia nuts
• Moldy foods
• Mushroom plants
• Mustard seeds
• Onions and onion powder
• Peach pits
• Potato leaves and stems (green parts)
• Raisins
• Rhubarb leaves
• Salt
• Tea (caffeine)
• Tomato leaves and stems (green parts)
• Walnuts
• Yeast dough

Sources: ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center, the Toronto Humane Society, and St. John's Poison Resource Center