Poisonous garden plants

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If you look at the Dog's Trust list of plants that are poisonous to dogs you frankly shouldn't bother to have any kind of pretty garden if you keep dogs. How likely are dogs really likely to eat these plants (once they are past the puppy stage) and how many dogs a year get properly poisoned by plants growing in their owner's garden? I mean most people have a few daffs in the spring, even in pots, and yet these can be fatal. It's a minefield or am I over worrying?
 
ive just looked and cant believe how much is on there. i looked on the kennel club website and they dont mention lots of the dogs trust list. who do we believe?
 
I haven't had time to look at the list yet, I will later, but I have a very big garden and pretty much everything you can imagine in it.
You mention daffodils, I have swarms of them!
At the moment I have three grown up retrievers, the youngest was a pup here four years ago . I also have visiting dogs and puppies.
Absolutely no problems, didn't even know I had to be careful. The only thing I am careful about is they are trained to stay on the lawns, not go in the flower beds and I would take pretty dim view if they ate my flowers!
 
My lot stopped yanking up plants a while ago, God knows how the jasmine survived being 'moved' ten times!

I've got foxgloves on the drive which I'll transplant once they've flowered and I want some irises.

I think you need to just ensure that your dogs aren't destructive before planting anything and crucially, it's not in their usual circuit. My lot have established routes, there's no point planting anything in their way.
 
I've had dogs from young puppies to very elderly in my gardens and there are some definitely poisonous plants in my garden. I only ever had trouble once when my old terrier decided he would like to nibble the rhododendron flowers one year. Never did it before, never did it since. Think he was feeling like he wanted to munch grass and there was nothing long enough to grab so he chanced the rhody. I took him to the vet, he had vomited several times and by the time he got to the vet they just gave him activated charcoal which he didn't love. But I watch young puppies like a hawk as they're the ones most likely to get in to trouble with plants.
 
Oh PNP, I must look up that list and not be so complacent. I have loads of exotic rhododendrons and definitely a new puppy within the year. It only takes one to do the unexpected.
 
I sometimes wonder how puppies in general ever make it to one year - for all the daft things they do and get in to.

Mine is currently going through the phase of finding every single twig in my garden and eating it. I take it off him, he finds another. I take that one off him, he finds yet more. this went on and on til the other day he found a rotted bit of log and I felt bad taking it off him LOL He had looked so pleased with that find.
 
I had an absolute fit last year when my latest dog was a pup, and I walked across the yard and spotted a dog poo which was bright red. I was almost on the phone to the vet when I realised it was largely made up of red lead rope. She obviously has an amazing constitution and suffered no ill effects.

I gave up having plants in pots outside the front door though, as she enjoyed eating those.
 
I dont réally have a nice garden lol but I would be careful with rhododendrons (although I'd pull them up on principle :p) and yew for example.when Quarrie was a pup he grabbed a bit of yew cut off at work that had fallen off a trailer but luckily I got him very quickly. I not knowingly plant anything dodgy but I do have irises, asian lillies, foxgloves etc and cats, lots of daffs despite me trying to get rid of the damn things. My setter went through a phase of digging up my gladioli bulbs-maybe he was just jealous of the attention they got-not easy growing them on a moor!

rhodies, yew and foxgloves are very common everywhere up here on walks etc, if you worried too much you'd never leave the house.
 
One of mine once ate every garlic plant and bulb I had growing on the patio. I haven't bothered with pots again. He reeked for days!
 
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