Oregon Live As he often did, Charley Gee picked up flowers for his wife while grocery shopping.
On this particular day in February 2012, he chose "Love Story Lily." The flower was packaged with a warning about not being for human consumption and about the risk of staining clothing, but there was nothing about potential harm to cats, said the Southeast Portland lawyer.
In the next 24 hours, Gee and his wife, Kara Bredahl, would rush their 8-year-old cat, Boogaloo, to DoveLewis Emergency Animal Hospital.
There, doctors flushed the cat's kidneys, put him on kitty dialysis and kept him for four days after the cat chewed on the leaves of the lily -- which is highly toxic to cats.
Now, Gee is suing New Seasons and its floral supplier, Bay City Flower Co. from Half Moon Bay, Calif., alleging product liability and negligence because they failed to label the flower with a cat-specific warning.
The lily was "unreasonably dangerous," according to the complaint, filed last week in Multnomah County Circuit Court.
Neither New Seasons nor Bay City immediately responded to messages for comment.
Wednesday, 28 August 2013
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