Posted on 06/25/2008 7:53:23 AM PDT by fings
Thanks for the link.
I’m looking for those kinds of sites in order to put together a thread that has info from various different parts of the country.
Way too cool!!!! I’ve never heard of that, or if I have I’ve fogotten it.
I use the Lady Bug 8-2-4 Fertilizer this place has for sale. Several other nurseries are starting to carry it, because a lot of locals are organic gardeners. That stuff will green up a lawn better than any commericial fertilizer.
Thanks for posting this info!!!
Labs will eat ANYTHING. A couple of years ago, I was in a vet hospital waiting room, and a lady sitting next to me was there with a Lab. It had eaten its nylon leash. In three bites. One bite had passed through on its own, another bite had been fished out the dog’s back end a couple of days earlier by a vet using some sort of “fishing” tool, but the third bite was firmly stuck way up in the intestinal tract and was going to have to be removed via major abdominal surgery.
Hey RD! How are the figs doing?
Hey Gabz! Has it quit raining yet?
Choc won’t kill all dogs—case in point—we have a rat terrorist/chi mix. She once opened, unwrapped and ate an entire bag of hershey’s kisses. Other than literally bouncing off the walls for about 3 days, she’s fine. Nina can hear you if you think about opening a piece of choc. I swear that dog loves choc more than I do.
Your welcome. Hopefully it will save others from making the same mistake.
I almost bought cocoa mulch once because it’s supposed to be a deterrent to bugs, we have a lot of Japanese Beetles here in GA. When I started researching it more I read about it being potentially lethal to dogs and went for the regular mulch.
My grandmother’s lab—at different times—ate a full package of paper napkins, rocks, and a partial bag of fertilizer, which almost killed her. Dopey dog.
Thanks Gabz, worthwhile warning for dog lovers.
BTTT
Or you could try this: MOON-FACE A Story of Mortal Antipathy -- Jack London
My neighbor’s pit bull is vicious. He’s going to maim a small child one day............
We lived in the same town as one of the Nestle’s plants and know EXACTLY what you’re talking about. We could predict the weather with it. If it smelled like someone baking chocolate chip cookies, it was going to rain.
It wasn’t from the cocoa bean mulch, though; the smell was just from the factory.
Cocoa mulch is really great. I’ve used it before for years, but never heard of any problems like this.
I thought it was a secret handshake kind of thing and you had to belong to a club.
Cocoa bean mulch kills a few dogs each summer (out of the MILLIONS we have as pets in this country) and it’s time to trot out the summer horror stories so people have something to worry about.
There’s plenty of stuff under your kitchen cabinet that’ll kill your dog, too. Your cat would kill your dog if given half the chance, LOL! My yappy little dog once ate an entire bag of Hershey Kisses; tin foil and all. He lived.
There are plenty of ways for pets to die, so this is kind of alarmist. There’s “danger” everywhere. *SHRUG*
“theobrimine”. I shall endeavor to remember that word when looking at labels.
Thanks for the garden pings.
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