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honey fungus
molly.simmons
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I have a slightly unusual question - Two of my dogs (spaniels of course!) love eating fungi on the dunes where I exercise. When I discovered what was making them sick etc, I put the dogs on the lead, but the youngest managed to gorge on a large clump of honey fungus recently when I thought that the cold weather had killed all the fungi! She was very sick in the garden, and to stop her re-eating them I buried them - aargh! Will they now grow in my garden and also make it a no-go area for the dogs next autumn? I have to say in my defence that I didn't identify them until after I buried them!
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Spaniels! bless 'em. Once they get on a scent..
Some fungi are poisonous to dogs as you probably know.
The toadstools you see above ground are just the 'fruits' of a complex and sometimes widespread area of its 'roots', so they could pop up again in and around that area.
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Thanks Pete! I read somewhere that honey fungus taste quite nice - to humans and presumably to dogs too, but they have to be parboiled to avoid gastro-intestinal problems. (My dogs couldn't wait to parboil them!) Incidentally I tried muzzles on the dogs, but they had them off in about 5 seconds!
I doubt it as your dogs stomach acid may of done enough damage to the fungi's fruit to kill it before it came back up again.
However it were me to be sure I would carefully dig it up and some of the surrounding soil that it came into contact with and dispose of it elsewhere. Careful not to loose / spill it anywhere else.
The little effort involved even though it may be un-necessary would give me peace of mind especially if I had trees and hedges of value etc etc. A privet hedge can become infected and die and if it gives you privacy and security you don't want that to happen.
Thanks Cottage Compost! I was hoping that stomach acid, which is particularly strong in dogs, would have damaged the toadstools, but I will play safe as you suggest and dig it up again (if I can remember where I buried it) It can then go back to where it came from as I'd better not take it to the recycling centre!