Dog ( or just pet) Friendly Plants

[veggiechicken]

Reminds me of that TV show where things rolled by and the contestant had to remember them all including a cuddly toy? Don't think I'd fancy winning your list OWG!

[rustylady]

My dogs have eaten much worse things they have found in the house...

These include a whole packet of contraceptive pills, a tub of butter, an entire Battenburg cake (plus wrapper), a bluetooth headset (pulled from a charger which was plugged in), an entire roll of poo-bags (empty ones obviously), used tinfoil, snotty tissues etc... not to mention over 10 cushion dog beds....

Frankly, I'm fairly pleased when they decide to eat the apples and plums from the garden!

Seem to remember you have boxers? My friend had one years ago, and he ate the steering wheel while left in the car when she did the supermarket shop.

[OverWyreGrower]

Yup... and that doesn't surprise me!

The problem arises when you have large, powerful dogs who are very curious and actually rather clever...

Our eldest Boxer, Max, can open the fridge, microwave and lower cupboards, and can shut the back door on request when he feels like it....

[GardenFaery]

I can take a joke as much as the next person, but this is just taking the piss at my expense? Was a genuine thread for those wanting to use a dog/pet-friendly cottage garden plants? But obviously new posters arent welcome and are mocked by a group of people who would rather make ego/power plays than allow others their own input?

Don't worry, you have effectively silenced me - Having previously felt eager and enthusiastic about these forums, with Spring and all the renewed gardening activity, I now feel 'what's the point?' In my mind it was a supposedly helpful thread, that others could add their own ideas to? In yours obviously some sort of competition. I operate from essence not ego, so I don't do competition.
Nice that you had somebody to laugh at though - glad I cheered you up for 10 mins but I don't neccesarily your approach will encourage newcomers to say anything at all?

[GardenFaery]

there's full flow and there are 'bullies' Veggie chicken' you decide who you are?

[GardenFaery]

BTW, if you have cats, lilies (or the pollen from them) are toxic to felines.

Lilies are also poisonous to dogs.

[veggiechicken]

I know exactly who I am Gardenfaery and I am not a bully. I tried to explain that this is a forum for discussion and not simply a place for lists. In fact Twosheds has also started a thread for suitable plants to grow for pets, mentioned previously.
I'm sorry if you feel that you have been bullied. I shall stay away from any of your posts in future. Good luck to you.

[GardenFaery]

You knew exactly what you were doing:

"Crikey, 2S, if I saw those in my garden I would be worried about what they'd been eating!
Now now, don't be catty
behave else we'll be accused of hounding........
What about Dog daisies and catnip?"

Yes, it is a place for discussion and not just lists.
But my recommendations were not just 'over worry' or 'overeacting' as some have assumed? Also, just because you have spent more time/are older on the forum, does not mean you can treat new people in a derogatory way? Yes we have to take a 'common sense' approach where pets are concerned, but there are those who wish to plan planting around a safe pet environment, even with beneficial herbs and plants?

I should have felt free to discuss this without having the whole idea 'jumped' on by a group of people intent on 'mobbing' and mocking my ideas? Free discussion is free discussion - but respect is also respect - which includes acknowledging the topics others feel they want to talk about without turning their ideas and them into a joke? I sorry you feel you have to 'avoid my posts' as I have always respected everyone else's?

[veggiechicken]

Excuse me GardenFaerie but they are not all my comments.

[GardenFaery]

Let's agree to disagree then, because quite honestly I'm not your 'target'? I have nicer things to focus on and quite honestly this thread has already upset me enough.

[binley100]

I think GF that you are maybe being a tad sensitive ......a lot of threads on here start off as one thing and end up completely different including a certain amount of banter between grapes . Those comments were not all from VC and no-one was taking the piss at your expense or mocking you .
Lighten up a bit GF stay with us and you will come to realise that this is actually a friendly place .......

[kentishgal]

This is something that I spend alot of time thinking about. I have 3 little canine hooligans running around the garden and 6 house kitties who will munch on anything green! Also wanting to do a cottage garden style..
I think it lends itself quite well to being pet friendly TBH. There are tons of herbs you can grow in borders and beds and most have very pretty flowers. Borrage and lavander for instance. Then you have some lovely foilage from various thymes, rosemarys, sage, or fennel, etc. You could also go for a potager effect and plant cabbages, chard, lettuce in there too.
Im also planting cornflowers, forget me nots, lobelia, phlox, marigolds and nasturtiums which are pretty safe I think.

Sadly the house has to be fairly plant free for me coz the cats really will eat anything!! As the bite marks in my Mother in laws tongue can attest too!!LOL

[GardenFaery]

Im also planting cornflowers, forget me nots, lobelia, phlox, marigolds and nasturtiums which are pretty safe I think.

Yes I think all of those are - and humans can eat the marigolds and nasturtiums too..

Mother-In-Law's Tongue Sansevieria trifasciata
Toxin = Saponins
Also known as Snake Plant, Golden Bird's Nest, or Good Luck Plant

is listed as one to avoid on here:

Dogs In The Garden - Plants that are Toxic & Poisonous for Dogs

[Feral007]

My dogs have eaten much worse things they have found in the house...

These include a whole packet of contraceptive pills, a tub of butter, an entire Battenburg cake (plus wrapper), a bluetooth headset (pulled from a charger which was plugged in), an entire roll of poo-bags (empty ones obviously), used tinfoil, snotty tissues etc... not to mention over 10 cushion dog beds....

Frankly, I'm fairly pleased when they decide to eat the apples and plums from the garden!

Oh dear, your dog must be a bit like one of ours! She is terribe. Digs up anything and eats anything. Animal, mineral, vegetable, clothing! I had to trim the apple trees above dog head height as the dwarf apple had a limb low with loads of apples and she used to whack her head into them and then pul them off and play with them. She snaps up the applecores the kids throw - no problem with chewing seeds tho straight down the hatch! She's started on tomatoes now as well.
I don't worry too much about the dogs and plants (altho maybe I should) but I am wondering about paddock plants and the horses. Quite a few plants are poisonous if they eat enough of them. Usually they don't as they aren't that tasty, but when feed is scarce it can become important.
I once had a german shepherd who used to put his jaws around the cherry tomatoes and just squish them on the vine - deliberately. I was tempted to buy a chilli plant and see how he felt about that - but I didn't. I think that a lot of plants that are dangerous are either unappetising, so that not enough is eaten, or downright nasty tasting so they aren't eaten at all.

[Two_Sheds]

I think that a lot of plants that are dangerous are ... nasty tasting so they aren't eaten at all.

We had an Old English sheepdog (rescue) that ate a lightbulb; dry rabbit food and once, a box of tampons.
Both the current dogs like to eat dried parrot poo straight off the paper. They're scroungers, dogs, and true omnivores.

OH's staffie used to eat stones, and he did go to the vets for that more than once.