Re: HYB:Drawbacks

On Jan 2, 2006, at 4:02 PM, <loberg@adelphia.net> wrote:


Oh!  Do Mountain Lions eat irises?   <vbg>
Betty W. in  South-central KY Zone 6
That would be the least of your worries!

My neighbor who has been accepting irises from me recently dug up all the
irises and destroyed them. She told me her puppy dog (shepard type) dug up
the irises and ate them, and they made her dog so sick she had to take it to
the vet... who told her irises were poisonous. I've never known a dog to
voluntarily target and eat irises!

I never realized irises were poisonous but:

http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/consumer/poison/Iris_sp.htm

My shepherd never even walked in my iris beds, let alone ate one. My bet is that there was something else in the soil that attracted the puppy.


John | "There be dragons here"
| Annotation used by ancient cartographers
| to indicate the edge of the known world.

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