What is this?

[willowtigger]

Join our free community today.

Connect with other like-minded dog lovers!

Login or Register

It's growing in my garden and I don't know if it's pet friendly or if it's poisonous or venomous

I'm assuming it's a mushroom toadstool thing but I don't know if it'll hurt cats if either girl sniffs it

Tigger walked near it this afternoon and I don't know if it was safe for her to even do that

 

[SuzyJay]

Why not just pick it up and throw it in the bin? I agree, it does look like a toadstool.

 

[willowtigger]

Why not just pick it up and throw it in the bin? I agree, it does look like a toadstool.

Its literally growing there, physically attached to the grass, idk if snapping it off will release poison that will get Tigger and Willow

 

[JoanneF]

Snap it off and throw it away, then pour a few basins of water over the area or hose it if you have a hose.

 

[Rona]

Looks like a puffball.
It will puff out spoors when it bursts. Wear gloves and mask if you do pick it. It's not that it's poisonous but it's not pleasant

 

[willowtigger]

Looks like a puffball.
It will puff out spoors when it bursts. Wear gloves and mask if you do pick it. It's not that it's poisonous but it's not pleasant

I'm in the UK, do we even have puffball things?

 

[Rona]

I'm in the UK, do we even have puffball things?

Have you never stamped on a puffball?
I'm in the UK, we have several types, some edible

 

[Rona]

Identifying Puffball Mushrooms -

A detailed guide giving you all of the information needed to safely foraging for puffball mushrooms. Most common finds & toxic lookalikes.

totallywilduk.co.uk

 

[willowtigger]

Have you never stamped on a puffball?
I'm in the UK, we have several types, some edible

Even as a kid I wouldn't go near a mushroom or toadstool in case it got me

 

[Rona]

Even as a kid I wouldn't go near a mushroom or toadstool in case it got me

You missed out on one of the joys of childhood, a bit like jumping into a puddle.
Go stamp on the one in the garden ............be a devil

 

[JudyN]

My grandad used to pick them in the early morning and my gran would fry them in butter for breakfast. Delicious, but I wasn't keen on the ones that had tiny holes in them that looked very much like woodworm....

I'd never try picking my own to eat - it's far too dangerous if you don't really know what you're doing.

 

[willowtigger]

You missed out on one of the joys of childhood, a bit like jumping into a puddle.
Go stamp on the one in the garden ............be a devil

I'd jump in puddles and on leaves and dig up worms and make mud pies and climb next door's tree along with their grandson, I have always had an aversion to mushrooms, never have liked the feel of them

 

[Rona]

I'd jump in puddles and on leaves and dig up worms and make mud pies and climb next door's tree along with their grandson, I have always had an aversion to mushrooms, never have liked the feel of them

You don't do it in bare feet

Put wellies on and have a stomp