[christiers]

Originally Posted by littlewhip

Im very sorry to hear his is so sick, I see you mentioned mushrooms, we just had a flyer around our neighborhood about the dangers of these and how you must get rid of every single one, if indeed he did digest these, he must be seen asap even a little can be fatal will be praying for him ~

This seems to be the week I am going to share several experiences.

Last February we got a little 2.2lb yorkie, she was 6 months old...Martini. We had a very moist, wet Spring and early Summer. She couldn't stay away from mushrooms. Always a struggle with her. Well one evening she was running around the yard and found one, we tried to get it from her, but she seemed to have consumed some of it. We thought they were harmless, had no clue they could be toxic. The consumption transpired around 8 pm on June 29, hubby put Martini and Coco in the run to potty around 9:30pm, he went down to the basement, brought the laundry up for me and went back out to the run to bring them in. Only Coco ran out and to the door. He let Coco in and he didn't come in. After about 4 minutes passed I began to worry, I was approaching the back door to go out and see if there was a problem. He came in with Martini in his arms, he had been out searching for her...had thought she had gotten out of the run but instead found he in the back corner, she was twitching and seizing. He had her little body in his arms, sat her down on the floor...she couldn't stand. We rushed her to the ER vet, them admitted her immediately, she was non-response,ive, her little body twitching. They tried and tried to stabilize her. I called to check on her at 1:23am June 30th, and she had just stopped breathing, they were trying to revive her. The ER vet phoned back around 1:51am, and nothing worked. She was gone. Martini's case was definitely different, I am aware...her necropsy revealed a liver shunt. But after speaking to Dr. L (ER vet), this mushroom could have absolutely caused liver failure and the same thing could have happened over an extended period of time instead of so rapidly due to Martini's underlying condition.

I am SO VERY HOPEFUL that you are able to get Lefty to a vet and PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE dig up any mushrooms you have in your yard. Knocking them over or kicking them only spread the spores causing more and more to grow. Also treating your yard with a pet friendly fertilizer with a high level of nitrogen will help with eliminating mushrooms.