Take extra care not to let them eat their stems, leaves and seeds. It seems to be worse when these fruit are wilting. I don’t imagine you are giving your best friend an apricot with a pit or apples straight off the tree for snacks. This might happen when fruit is falling on the ground.

Essentially, they contain cyanide, specifically cyanogenic glycosides. Look for difficulty breathing, dilated pupils, panting, shock. Check for a brick red colored mucous membranes. That’s the gums area above their teeth, inner lip area and the lining of their eyelids.

These are a common landscaping shrub, personally one of my favorites because they can be shaped so easily and have a nice, clean look. Their leaves and sap contain alkaloids that are bad for dogs, cats, horses and people.

Dogs and cats might have vomiting or diarrhea. But if you’ve got a horse friend it could mean colic and respiratory failure.

I never would have guessed these could be so dangerous for our furry friends. We don’t have a doggie but we foster from the local pound because it helps the dogs get permanent homes.

Vomiting, diarrhea, hypersalivation, problems with coordination and dermatitis (red, irritated skin)

Another one that produces a cyanide compound. Dogs don’t let their friends eat these.

This one surprised me, I thought for sure this would be good for our furry friends. And to be honest, an upset tummy doesn’t sound too bad but this is cyanogenic. I’m sure it also depends on how much they eat.

Volatile oils, phthalate lactones are the main culprits in this case. I heard great things about having this in your garden, apparently it’s a doggy diuretic. If that’s good or bad, probably depends on your dog just as much as how much they chomped down.

I had a bulldog that chewed through the cable line when he was a puppy, (took out cable tv to the entire neighborhood, I was more than embarrassed when I flagged down the cable guy driving through my neighborhood and he told me the problem was at my house).

My point being, sometimes it’s really about timing in a dog’s life too.

Pick your poison on this one, some have cardiotoxins (heart) and others have neurotoxins (nerves). No thank you!

I love Monarch butterflies and they do need these to make more Monarchs but be extra careful with your doggy dog. Aside from vomiting and diarrhea, this could look like anorexia, difficulty breathing, seizures, coma… aka reeeeaallly bad.

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Essential oils in general are hard on dogs because their sense of smell is so keen. Many can be used if diluted like Lavender. But peppermint and wintergreen can both cause nerve damage.

Regular garden mint (culinary herb), they have to eat a lot of it, can cause vomiting and diarrhea. Common symptoms for your body trying to flush out a poisonous substance.

Other essential oils to avoid: tea tree oil (highly toxic), cinnamon, citrus, clove, pine.

Calcium oxalates cause trouble when they are insoluble like what’s found in lilies. In rhubarb they are soluble, meaning easier for our canine friends to absorb them into their bodies.

It’s pretty serious when they do, it can cause tremors, salivation, kidney failure.

Yarrow is used in herbal medicine as a great way to stop bleeding, reduce inflammation and treat fevers. And they contain glycoalkaloids and terpenes that are bad for dogs to eat. Aside from the usual symptoms there could be colic, drooling, anorexia, dermatitis.

Till next time,