Hi. My 1st post on this site. Not sure if should be on this thread or health thread? Due to get a new pup in a few weeks. H have been doing a load of reading & prep. Issue of concern is about my garden. It's on a hill & is always wet during winter, leading to mushroom & fungi growth. Ironically it's shaping up to be pretty bad right now. Feeling that will be impossible to stop pup eating them & worried about consequences. Any views or advice? Thanks
Hi and welcome to the forum. That doesn't sound ideal and could potentially be very dangerous depending on the kind of mushrooms. But it is not a risk I would want to take with a puppy. Is there anyway you can secure and area to keep the pup away from the mushrooms?
Hi Steve! Welcome to the forum. I think supervision in the garden is going to be the order of the day at the beginning anyway, but having a "safe area" is probably a good idea. Just wanted really to chip in that we always have mushrooms in our garden ("fairly rings") but Lilly has never shown the least bit of attention in them, or tried to eat them at all. jac
Similar experience here. We have all sorts of fungi growing in the forested areas of our plot, and Nelson might sniff them occasionally, but has never tried to eat them.
Mushrooms are really bad on our lawns this year. I must confess to daily pulling out the ones on the back lawn but neither dog seem to be interested in them. At the moment dogs are only out there when one of us is.
Hello from myself and Gus (10 weeks). We actually just had a mushroom incident about 2 weeks ago! Our little guy was out on a walk with us when he stopped and licked the top of a mushroom found in our woods. I immediately grabbed the mushroom and threw it away, but didn't think much more of it. About a day later our little guy got extremely sick; throwing up, lethargic, runny stools, to the point we were worried he had Parvo and it appeared we might loose him. We rushed him to the vet where he tested negative for parvo. At this point we'd almost completely forgotten about the mushroom and didn't even mention it to our vet. Indeed he had toxins in his system and it was then it dawned on us he'd tasted the mushroom 3 days earlier!! Rounds of shots, a special diet, and antibiotics later and he's back to his sweet self!! We do live in the states and this mushroom may be completely different from what you have in your area!! Just be cautious!! Our little guy licks and eats literally everything but most dogs leave them alone.
We're plagued with mushrooms too. Some of them are tiny and difficult to spot in the 'lawned' areas - which are really grass, weeds and moss! Neither of mine show interest now, although Tuppence was inclined to do so when she was a puppy, but I don't leave them unsupervised. I would definitely create a 'safe' area for the puppy just in case you have a scavenger. Some puppies, like small children, tend to try to taste everything! It's also important to teach the 'leave it' command too.
My older dogs have never shown an interest in mushrooms and toadstools, but I would never trust that to be the case with a puppy. I agree with Heidrun; if you can't supervise 100% of the time he's in the garden, I would partition a safe zone off for him.
As the others have said, can be very dangerous. In my area we have had warning from vets in the past week because a dog has died after eating mushrooms/toadstools on the local common and several others are very ill. The vets have suggested muzzling dogs that are known to be keen pickers up of anything (like Molly is). That seems a bit drastic, we are just avoiding those areas at the moment. Not easy though when these things are growing in your garden. Good luck with the new pup and eyes in the back of your head too required
Joy, aged five months is very interested in mushrooms and toadstools. Eyes in the back of your head definately essential. Good luck!
My 11 week old puppy views the mushrooms that grow in our yard as a special delicacy and will look for them as a special snack! We've decided to keep him on his leash in the backyard during his first morning outing until we have done a thorough search of the yard for mushrooms and know it's safe! We also let our daily dog walker know about the mushroom problem and she scours the yard when she's playing with Murphy each day. She gives me a pee/poo and mushroom report. Luckily none of the mushrooms he's sampled have caused him any tummy issues, but I constantly worry about him!
My Pomeranian ate one mushroom a couple years ago and was so incredibly sick, after throwing up 30 some times and having projectile diarrhea(we were travelling home) he had to be on IV fluids for two days before being able to come home. So now I’m super cautious!
