Its been very wet here, and I've been unable to fertilize my brugs, so yesterday I decided to work some blood meal and an organic, dry rose food into my brugie's soil. Well, my little doggies just had a great time getting into it. Hopefully not much was injested, but one of them tossed her cookies and the other had to have vomiting induced at the vet. A rather expensive, very scary lesson learned here -- I will only use liquid fertilizer from this date forward!!!
Just hope that it doesn't happen to anyone else :) Gretchen
Blood Meal a word of caution
They ate it? I am so glad they are OK! I have cats and they are attracted to that weed killer spray. They will roll in it if I spray a clump of glass.
I had heard that blood meal can carry mad cow so I stopped using it awhile back. I do not know if it is true.
Gretchen, I am soooooooooo sorry about your precious Yorkie and hope the recovery will be swift and complete!!!! I always keep hydrogen peroxide on hand in my doggy medicine chest. I also keep the K9 poison control number on the front of my frig, and it has come in handy more than once. Recently, Chipsy, my sweet golden, and I were visiting a neighbor, and Chipsy brough me a roach hotel that she had chewed into. I nearly fainted and raced home, just next door, called the poison control number and they told me to use the hydrogen peroxide and Chip up chucked 5 times before we arrived at the vet, just to make sure she was okay and to call the roach hotel people to verify that we had done the right thing. All was well, but it was scary. I'm not at home today, so i don't have the number but I got it on google, and it surely was handy for me. SLike
Gretchen, that is just terrible. Poor little poochie. My daughter that is building across the road from you has 2 of the cutest little female Yorkies. They will all have to get acquainted soon.
Gosh Gretchen! I hope the little pups make a swift come back.
I hope everything will be okay Gretchen. I haven't used blood meal for probably 10 years and quit using bone meal too. Not for the reasons you mentioned, but because the neighbor's dog liked digging up the bone meal and for me, the blood meal smelled too bad.
Thank you all for your kind words! They are both fine and the vet seemed to think that there would be no residual effects. I was much more concerned about the other fertilizer that I used with the blood meal, than the blood meal itself. Luckily, I'm only using organics which pleased the vet, as they're not nearly as dangerous as chemicals.
Kell: I heard that once about blood meal and mad cow, but I think the chance of that would be slim, and I wasn't fertilizing anything but brugs with it. I wouldn't do edibles for that reason, and
Shirley, the smell was not offensive. I put a new thick layer of mulch on all of them, so hopefully it'll curtail future forays!
Sherry: The dog in the picture on my home page is Skoshi, and he belongs to one of my parent's neighbors at their Winter home in Florida. My dog, Lanny, is a Silky Terrier. Their ancestry is Yorkie X Austrailian Terrier. A little larger than a Yorkie, and a more pronounced terrier type face. The other one is half Blue Heeler X Toy Fox Terrier. Then there's Hunter, the big old lug of a Golden... I'm so glad Chipsy was okay!!!
Sylvia: Unfortunately, Lanny is an alpha and not friendly to other dogs at all :( That's the reason we ended up with her. She was a breeding bitch and too aggressive with her pups, so the breeder had to let her go as a four year old. We've had her one year and just adore her.
Thanks, Shelly!
Gretchen, I heard the danger was in humans inhaling the blood meal inadvertantly, not eating vegies dosed with it. But again, I donot know if true.
Kell, that's interesting! I hadn't heard that angle before, I had just heard not to use it on your veggies! Wow. Well, I had already decided to NEVER, EVER AGAIN use a dry fertilizer! If we end up in a wet period again, those brugs will just have to wait for their "grow tonic cocktail" LOL! Thanks for the info!!!