Mushrooms and Dogs

[plantar]

Hi guys and gals

newbie looking for some advice on mushrooms that have started appearing through garden chips, have taken some photos. Wanted to find out what they are and if harmful to dogs, and if there is a way to get rid of them.

Any help would be much appreciated

 

[Chuck]

Hi guys and gals

newbie looking for some advice on mushrooms that have started appearing through garden chips, have taken some photos. Wanted to find out what they are and if harmful to dogs, and if there is a way to get rid of them.

Any help would be much appreciated

http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/poisonous-mushrooms.html
Many if not most mushrooms you find or come up in your garden will make you sick and some even will kill you. They will disappear in a day or two.

 

[plantar]

Already been there for over 3 weeks, do you think they are field mushrooms?

 

[Chuck]

Already been there for over 3 weeks, do you think they are field mushrooms?

Do you mean that each individual mushroom has been there for 3 weeks or that mushrooms have been there for 3 weeks? They are not edible mushrooms. That exact mushroom is shown in the poisonous mushroom link. If you want to get rid of them either rake or hoe them down as they appear. They are feeding on decomposing organic matter and are actually beneficial. I have never heard of a dog eating them as most dogs are smarter than people when it comes to stuff like this.

 

[Rajesh Sethi]

Mushrooms can be dangerous, use mask (spores)

 

[Daren]

I think they look cool almost like living stones (Lithops) I know they are not mind ...Lithops but if it was me and I have a dog that I love & walk though woods full of mushrooms of all types Most weekends, I would not mind & would just leave them to do there job. If you do Kill them, expect something else to move in and eat what they where eating in the soil. I have never read or seen a dog eat dangerous mushrooms

 

[Esther Knapicius]

I live on a wooded property. Many type of mushrooms grow. I have had dogs and now have cats. The dogs and I roam the property. Its the least of my worries about the mushrooms as never in 20 years has one dog wanted to chop on a mushroom. Nor the cats. I also have squirrels, sometime will catch one chopping a mushroom, figure nature tells it which are good. I do not worry over such things.

 

[Marck]

Greetings Plantar, welcome to the Forums.

This is the Common Puffball (Lycoperdon perlatum) in the Afaric Family (Agaricaceae).
When the puffballs are mature they release their spores through a pore in the center.
Puffballs are edible when young, though one must be certain of their identification.