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Dog safe flowering cherry advice needed

CnhardyCnhardy Posts: 2
edited March 2021 in Problem solving

Does anyone know if kojo no mai flowering cherry is toxic to dogs? Wanting non toxic plants for a new garden 😀
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  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    edited March 2021
    Those lists are a joke. Guess what - my dog has eaten plenty of onion, and a WHOLE avocado (sans stone), and is fine!

    Plant your Prunus kojo no mai, I guarantee that even if there is some theoretical toxicity, Fido would have to eat more than one entire plant to have any ill effects - and that probably goes for three quarters of that list too!
    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    We had a dog and a laburnum tree. Neither died. 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    We have 2 dogs, now 12 and 14.  Between this garden and our last one we have grown or are growing many of the plants on that list and have never had a problem with either dog, nor a very daft visiting young spaniel we look after from time to time nor various cats over the last 30 years nor our daughter or her friends from birth to early 20s.

    The only plant I am really careful of is oriental lilies whose pollen can be fatal to cats so I grow them in pots where their flowers are above cat height and if I cut them to bring indoors I remove the stamens and their pollen.

    I don't grow euphorbia because I don't like them but if I did I'd be careful of getting the sap on my skin in sunlight as that can cause burns.


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  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    edited March 2021
    pansyface said:
    Anaemia is hard to see.

    https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/nutrition/can-dogs-eat-onions/

    From the source "It only takes 100 grams of onion (about the size of a medium onion) per 20 kilograms of a dog's weight to cause toxic effects"

    So Cody would have to eat two whole onions to experience toxic effects? Or enough beef bolognese to feed a family of four? (Actually he would enjoy that...) 
    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    I think the very toxic things are best avoided by people who have dogs (or children) who can't be supervised or trained not to chew stuff. I'm thinking of things like monkshood (Aconitum napellus) - there's a good reason one of its other common names is wolfsbane.
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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    We had a dog that hated peas. She would eat around them without touching them. They would end up dotted randomly around a licked dry plate. Never having been touched.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    We had an Italian visitor who ate sweet pea seeds (well, only two) thinking they were edible peas. He survived. In my experience Italians need more supervision than dogs.
    Rutland, England
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    My brother grows hundreds of acres of onions ... he has several labradors, a breed known for eating anything and everything, and they've walked the fields together several times a week throughout their lives.  The dogs and onions have survived unscathed over 45 years of onion farming.   :)

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited March 2021
    It seems that quite a few people fall down stairs each year, sometimes resulting in injury or even death ... yet many of us continue to have staircases in our homes and most of us who do, continue to use them several times a day 😲

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited March 2021
    Dovefromabove said:
    It seems that quite a few people fall down stairs each year, sometimes resulting in injury or even death ... yet many of us continue to have staircases in our homes and most of us who do, continue to use them several times a day 😲
    It's ok ... OH has already told me that I'm being facetious  ;)

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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