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November 3rd, 2010
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Dogs have so much fun nosing about in the fallen leaves in autumn. But be watchful if those leaves are from an oak tree. While acorns are part of a healthy diet for pigs, bears and deer, they can cause renal failure in dogs.
Similarly, drinking water in which fallen oak leaves have been soaking can cause renal failure as well. While gastrointestinal trouble is the early warning for dogs and oak tree products, the best practice is to get out and rake it all up if your dog starts to forage like a pig, bear or deer in fall. Helen Fazio and her dog Raja are world travelers. Click here to visit their blog, and click here to follow them on Twitter. |
Also watch out for black walnuts aka filbert nuts. The husk surrounding the nuts of the black walnut tree carry a fungus or mold that is very toxic to dogs and it only gets worse as the husk begins to rot and fall off of the nut. The husk is sort of a poisonous lime green color that turns blackish brown when the nuts are left on damp ground and the whole thing rots. Dogs sometimes want to pick these up and carry them around in their mouths and while they don’t actually eat the nuts or the husk they do get a mouthful of the toxic mold or fungus carried on the nut’s husk. The chemical I believe is called “jagulans” or “jugulans” and is also extremely toxic to horses esp. if they walk in ground where the nuts have been rotting, it can actually be absorbed into the hooves – seems odd but my horse vet warned me about this as we have an old Black Walnut grove on our farm.
OH NO!!! My Toby has been eating acorns since I started taking him outside when he was about 4 months old, he’s a year lod next month. He seems fine. poops normal, but I will definately make sure to watch him closely now and no more acorns for him.
Another thing to be aware of with leaves: ticks. Leaf litter and similar debris is where you’re most likely to pick up ticks. A lot of people think it’s too late in the season, but that’s not true at all. Even here in New England where we’ve had frosts, we have found multiple deer ticks on our dog or ourselves. Tis the season for deer ticks, and they love the dried leaves (where they fall off rodent hosts).
Oh wow, I had no idea! I don’t think my dog eats acorns as much as he likes to toss them in the air and catch them. Definitely agree with the poster above about black walnuts! I have three trees in my backyard and the ground in the fall is littered with rotting nuts. It’s a daily chore to get outside and pick them up and put them someplace where the squirrels will enjoy them but the dogs cannot get to them.
If you or your dog gets a tick attached to you, pull it off with tweezers & save it. Have it analized for Lyme Disease or other co-infections.
This is new information for many of us dog lovers out there. Thank you for posting it for all to see.
Someone who commented on here referred to black walnuts as being filbert nuts, BLACK WANUTS ARE NOT FILBERT NUTS they are HAZEL NUTS and THEY ARE ONE OF THE GOOD NUTS TO GIVE YOUR DOGS.
Put Filbert Nuts in your search and read about it, has a lot of good info about them.
Someone who commented on here referred to black walnuts as being filbert nuts, BLACK WALNUTS ARE NOT FILBERT NUTS they are HAZEL NUTS and THEY ARE ONE OF THE GOOD NUTS TO GIVE YOUR DOGS.
Put Filbert Nuts in your search and read about it, has a lot of good info about them.