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Looks like a holly
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My first thought was also Ilex species (Holly) whose berries and leaves are poisonous to dogs cats and horses. This ASPCA Poison Control Page lists the symptoms of poisoning: https://www.aspca.org/pet-care...

We have lots of Yaupon Holly around our farm - along with dogs, cats, and horses. Nothing eats the berries, including the birds.

Every dog is different. Some dogs will eat anything. My akita tried to skarf down a box of styrofoam squiggles - I had to fight to get the box away from him.

Any of the hollies will be toxic to dogs. How toxic will depend on the individual dog (size, health, sensitivity), how much the dog eats, and if the dog repeatedly eats it or just gets hold of it once.

porkpal said: We have lots of Yaupon Holly around our farm - along with dogs, cats, and horses. Nothing eats the berries, including the birds.

Lots of hollies at my house, too.
The birds take a very long time to decide that the berries are ripe... But once they get ready, all the birds in the area mob the holly, and eat every berry in a few hours.

I would be very surprised to see a dog attempt to pick any of those berries when they are so well protected with those thorny type leaves.

Again, depends on the dog. Some dogs will ignore discomfort if they think the reward is worth it. And others just won't even comprehend any potential barrier to what they decide they want.

I agree that the seriousness of a canine eating a poisonous plant will depend on the particular plant, the size of the dog and the amount of the plant that's ingested.

45 years ago I worked with someone who raised Saint Bernards and one year, one of their dogs ate part of a Poinsettia plant (Euphorbia pulcherrima). They rushed the dog to the Veterinary Clinic because he was quite sick but luckily he survived. The veterinarian told them that if it had been a much smaller breed dog and depending on the quantity of the plant ingested, it could have be fatal.

We have 3 dogs and two of them are Golden Retrievers who always want to eat leaves, wood mulch, sticks, etc., so much so that I've always referred to the two of them as our "Goat Dogs." We live in Florida, with many tropical plants that are poisonous to dogs. I browse our backyard on a regular basis and I've pulled up numerous Solanum diphyllum seedlings, Epipremnum aureum (Pothos) vines and Lantana seedlings among other plants. Our dogs are never outside unsupervised but even with supervision, it's sometimes hard to keep track of all three of them.

Years ago, my sibling's dog became suddenly sick after being petsat for a week. The dog was trying to vomit and poop but nothing came out and was in distress. He was taken to the ER and they stabilized him but wanted to do a bunch of invasive tests for every possible thing. They had no clue as to what could be wrong.

My sibling called my mom's vet in the morning who said to bring the dog to him for exploratory surgery. When they arrived, the vet was at the front counter. He looked up, saw the dog and said "you didn't say he was a lab. He ate something. I'll go in and remove it and he'll be fine."

One surgery later, the dog had swallowed an oak gall. The gall was blocking the intestines and poisoning the dog.

Dogs don't always do the smart thing.

LOL, Golden Retrievers are supposed to be fairly smart dogs but I often wonder about ours. I've had a couple of Vets tell me that this particular breed likes to eat unusual stuff. One of ours is almost 12 years old and he still yanks the bark off of a palm tree and lays down and munches on it in the backyard and he also likes to eat the bark off of oak trees! I have to be really careful to keep Kleenex and Paper Towels out of reach because he always wants to eat them! When this particular dog was a young pup we would crate him when we left the house and once I felt bad about leaving him in the crate with the hard bottom so we bought a gel filled crate mat thinking he would be more comfortable. That night we were going to a college basketball game so we positioned the crate to face the laundry room so that when we came home he'd see us as we came into the house from the garage. We came home about two hours later and he was standing in his crate wagging his tail, extremely happy to see us but I soon freaked out because there were bits of blue gel everywhere! It was all over the floor and all over the dog and even on his tongue and hanging out of his mouth! He'd apparently ignored his other toys and had a party with that gel mat! We took him to the Vet first thing the next morning to be checked out and thankfully he was okay. Our other Golden is almost 9 and we can't have any of the fabric toys in the house with him (even the type with no stuffing) because he eats the fabric! We have tennis balls that we throw for the dogs in the yard but after a few minutes, they don't want to bring them back, they only want to lay down and eat the felt. 🐕

Haha. Silly golden!

A foster puppy I had went to his new home. After about six months, I visited and they were extolling his many virtues. Then they added "if we go out for the day, he has to go to doggie daycare because otherwise he eats the slugs off the deck and then comes inside to throw them all up.

We had a Great Dane who was usually fine alone in the house - except the time he ate the couch...

We grow Yaupon holly on our farm and the birds do eat the berries, but usually after other berries are about gone. We collect and roast leaves in spring to make tea which we sell in tourist shops along the coast. As an evergreen, Yaupon makes a good privacy hedge, or a windbreak on the north side. It does, however, spread easily in this area.

This is a very interesting plant, and I recommend reading The Black Drink by Charles M. Hudson to learn more about Yaupon.,