Dobermans and your Plants:

Plant Safety 

This area of the web site is dedicated to plants and your Doberman (or any dog really). Dogs love to explore and the only way for them to thoroughly check something out after smelling is to take a bite or two. Even with their extraordinary sense of smell, they don’t always know what’s good and what’s not. Sometimes what they eat may not agree with them and can experience vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain or even go into toxic shock because what they have nibbled on was poisonous to their systems.

Colorful and fragrant, plants and shrubs are especially tempting and some of our favorite flowers, vegetables, and berries could be even more enticing. Plants that some veterinarians suggest you watch out for and their possible symptoms are listed below.

Possible Vomiting & Diarrhea	May cause vomiting, abdominal pain or diarrhea
Castor Bean  SoapBerry  Ground Cherry  Shunk Cabbage  Daffodil  Delphinium (larkspur, staggerweed)  Foxglove  Indian Tobacco (lobelia, bladderpod, emetic herb, emetic weed, gagroot, vomitroot, vomitwort, pukeweed, wild tobacco, asthma weed, bladderpod, eyebright)  Indian Turnip  Poke Weed  Bittersweet Wisteria	Almond  Apricot  Wild Cherry  Balsam Pear  Japanese Plum  Bird of Paradise bush  Horse Chestnut (Buckeye)  English Holly  Black Locust  Mock Orange  Privet  Golden Rain Tree  American Yew  English Yew  Western Yew
Hallucinogens	Convulsions
Marijuana  Morning Glory  Nutmeg  Perriwinkle  Peyote  Loco Weed	China Berry  Coriaria  Moonweed  Nux Vomica  Water Hemlock

Varied Toxic Effects

Mescal Bean, Mushrooms (some), Sunburned Potatoes (Green), Rhubarb, Tomato Vine, Buttercup Poison Hemlock, Water Hemlock, Matrimony Vine, May Apple, Moonseed, Nightshade, Angel’s Trumpet