Emergency Gardening

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Kacey was on the back porch with me when she suddenly began to gag. I immediately hooked her to the line and let her outside. She rushed to eat as much grass as she could, so I presumed she was trying to make herself vomit. I sat on the steps watching her and making soothing sounds. Looking inside, I thought there was part of a shoelace there, but there are no rogue shoelaces in this house. The limp thing was a stem from a coleus plant. I’ve read lists of plants that are harmful to children and animals, but I couldn’t remember any of them at that moment. Kacey seemed fine, so we went to bed and had a good night’s sleep.

After walking this morning, I went into emergency gardening mode. I cut the larger plants and put them in water to root on the railing where the dog couldn’t get to them. The lower parts I planted outside, again where she wouldn’t be able to reach them. When I knew the emergency was over, I consulted Alexa. She told me that some coleus plants are harmful to cats, dogs, and horses.

Published by Anne Mehrling

I'm a retiree who loves to write about life in the mountains of North Carolina.

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  9. Quick thinking…probably because you are always early to accomplish things, right? 😁 I am sure the gardening was a lot of extra work in this heat, but you are a good grandog mum to do it. She does look gorgeous in that photograph.

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  10. I hope she she well! I am glad it did no harm. Very helpful you describe the coleus plant! So nice that photo.

    You are so smart immediately removed the plants your garden.

    Tack Care,Anne!

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      1. The limp thing was a stem from a coleus plant. I’ve read lists of plants that are harmful to children and animals, you had write that’,Anne!

        I can search goggles about that plant but no any where written the plant harmful. I can guess you write above sentences then I write you remove that harmful plant.

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  12. Google to the rescue – thankfully you had a quick answer and the garden had a quick haircut. Interestingly, I read that dogs can’t have ice cream or chocolate. My aunt and grandmother lived together and were big ice cream eaters – the dog got a bowl too and he also got a “Jersey Milk” occasionally which was a plain milk chocolate bar. Now I read info on Facebook – never feed ice cream or chocolate to a dog. Apache would have lived to a ripe old age had he not gotten the Parvo virus on a walk in the neighborhood.

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