<div>If your basset ate a mushroom, I would scoop up any left and run it down to the vet with the dog to see if it is poisonous. I live in upstate NY on the Western Side and while up at my mom's has had a man stop by to ask if he could pick the mushrooms growing in her side yard. He was skilled in knowing which ones were ok to eat and which ones were poisonous. If one sees any mushrooms growing in the dog yard it is best to take them up at once (sometimes you can't if you are on a walk or what not).</div>
<div> <a href="http://www.aspca.org/pet-care/pet-care-tips/autumn-safety-tips.html">http://www.aspca.org/pet-care/pet-care-tips/autumn-safety-tips.html</a> This states that 99% of mushrooms are not poisonous, but to contact the vet anyway</div>
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<div>The blasted squirrels are out like crazy right now. This always brings me back to a few years ago when poor Maggie ate an acorn on a walk by the church. We did not know she ate it. It caused terrible bloody diarrhea and she had to be hospitalized. She passed the acorn (she is iron gut), but we almost lost her. I check the dog yard for them now.</div>
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<div>Better Homes and Garden has pumpkin stencils of certain dog breeds, but sadly they do not have the basset hound. Last year I did the dachshund one on a pumpkin and it turned out well. One would have to print out and tape it together (if I remember right) to make the stencil. Someone suggested to them to make a basset hound one already.</div>
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<div>Hope everyone is doing well.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>DRool to all in need,<br>Dee, <br>Maggie, Mazzie, Oliver, Cooper,& Harvey<br></div>