Amaryllis bulbs! Dog POISONED!

[shandoggy1]

If anyone buys Amaryllis bulbs this holiday time of year please be careful ! This was a story on the news last night. A couple who had gone food shopping picked up one at Trader Joes food chain and forgot they had left it on the floor in the kitchen. They had left to go out for dinner and when they had come back there dog had thrown up all over the house. They found that he had eaten the bulb and later that night he had died. The local shelters do not list these bulbs as toxic but say they may cause sickness but not death. He was a 9 year old sheltie, poor thing

[Crossfire Bulldogs]

Very sad

[Andrew556]

You have to be so careful! and its so easy to leave something out! Poor dog!

[calgal]

Those are not large plants, and are a bit pricey, so just thinking to myself....why would they even put a small plant on the floor??? Anyway that is just horrible. That poor baby must have spent his last few hours in terrible pain and misery. Be aware that poinsettia's are also very poisonous.

[KennelMom]

There are so many plants that can be poisonous to dogs To be safe, we really don't have any in the house (that and I have a total black thumb!)

[calgal]

I have only one, and it's an African Violet that has not stopped blooming since I bought it almost 5 years ago. The dogs can't reach it. When we bought this house July of 01, I had to dig up most of the plants in the back yard and even ask my neighbor if he would cut down his big Oleander plant because it was shedding in my yard and boy are they ever poisionous. He cut it down pronto cause he has a dog too and didn't realize how dangerous the plant was. My dogs will even chew on the rose pedal's when they drop. It's difficult to figure out what to plant now.

[Carrie]

Oh that's so sad. It is scary if you don't know what's poisonous and what isn't. I don't think roses are. Dogs notoriously like the taste of the bark and deer eat the leaves. (I got that first hand this summer. LOL) Don't know about the petals, but I don't think so. Rose hips are full of vitamin C and I think perfectly safe. I just try to get my dogs in the habit of "leaving it!" when it comes to plants and bushes in my yard. I did discover one year that I couldn't use bone meal on any bulbs or they were history. I guess there are several bulbs that are poisonous to some degree or another. That story is just too sad.