In the various pet-owners’ e-groups to which I subscribe, a common question is whether such-and-such garden plant is toxic to dogs, cats, or other pet animals who might wander up and start munching away. And what part of the poisonous plant would be harmful to household pets? The roots or the shoots? Leaves, berries, stems, flowers, or all of the above?
Now we’ve got every hardy herbaceous plant known to eastern Canada and New England growing around this place, I think — no poison ivy, though, happily! — but I don’t spend a whole lot of time obsessing about whether our domestic dogs are going to start snacking on the Aconitum. Still, handy to have a searchable database at my fingertips. Who knew that horses shuldn’t eat chives? Our tax dollars at work!
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