Are mulberries on the ground dog safe

[Drogon]

At the park I go to there are a few mulberry trees. Some of the berries have fallen to the ground and my dog seems to love them. He ate a few today but I stopped him from eating more.

Does anyone know if they are safe or should I continue to prevent him from eating them?

TIA

 

[Oh Little Oji]

I don't know what a mulberry looks like, but I'd like to know this sort of thing too.

 

[Dobie Wan Knobie]

I assume anything on the ground that I didn't feed my dog is not good for them! I do not want my dogs to eat anything that I did not give them. This is not easy to do. This is also where the e collar comes in handy...if I say "leave it!" and they don't leave it, then a small correction is warranted which just may save them from something they do not need, or that might not be good for them. But then I do a lot of off leash walking, and the e collar is the only way to reach out and correct, if on leash that's different.

 

[Drogon]

I don't know what a mulberry looks like, but I'd like to know this sort of thing too.

It looks very much like a Raspberry

 

[Oh Little Oji]

Yes, I try hard to not let my Dobe eat anything off the ground. I agree, it is hard. Through consistency, you should be able to train them to spit out whatever they have in their mouth. You just have to be willing to follow through every time. They learn they may as well spit it out because you're on your way to reach in there down their throat and grab it.

My previous Dobe, when young, really liked to eat cigarette butts. Around this town I live in now, it is part of the culture for some people to throw chicken bones on the ground when they're done eating their fried chicken.

 

[Drogon]

I found on ASPCA
Toxicity: Non-Toxic to Dogs, Non-Toxic to Cats, Non-Toxic to Horses
Toxic Principles: Non-toxic
But also If your pet ingested this plant, contact your local veterinarian or the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center

So that's confusing but I read some more where people have posted the berries may give a dog diarrhea, others have said that their dogs eat them with no problems.

 

[Oh Little Oji]

Come to think of it, I can tell you that my previous Dobe used to really like to munch on the blackberries that grow wild all over the place in the Pacific Northwest. It was really cute actually. Never gave him any problems except if he ate too many it did affect his poo some.

He also munched on salmon berries that grew wild naturally. He would usually wait until I started to pick some berries off a bush before he seemed to remember to go after them too. He would try to snag some of the really good ones before I got to them. So cute. No problems from the salmon berries either fyi.

 

[Dobie Wan Knobie]

I will pry my dogs mouth open and get it out if I have to, but like you say, they will learn to "drop It" or "leave it" with consistent training. Last weekend we were walking at the Dam Park - the Old Post Dam on the AR River - and we came up on a dead fish someone through in the grass. All I had to do was command "leave it!" and they did. No other correction was necessary. That was a good test. But then I was right there, and they were on their long leash.

The chicken bone thing is not good. You might want to really work on that one specifically so that the smell of chicken bone is one he knows to leave alone.

 

[MyBuddy]

We have Mulberry trees on our property. I've never seen the dogs grazing on them but I wouldn't doubt they've grabbed a few at one time or another. So far, no problems.

Here's what the fruit looks like from google.

 

[Oh Little Oji]

That looks like almost like a blackberry tree. If there were such a thing.

 

[MyBuddy]

That looks like almost like a blackberry tree. If there were such a thing.

The fruit looks very much alike. The leaves don't.
Mulberry


Blackberry


We have both growing wild here.

 

[Oh Little Oji]

Do you? That's cool.

We had the invasive Himalayan Blackberry that was all over the place and produced delicious berries. The native blackberry plant was much less common, though not rare and produced a less luscious berry. I used to call them "cola berries." They had a slight taste of cheap cola.

 

[Luvmydoberman]

We have mulberry bushes, but my girls have no interest in the plants or fruits.

 

[JanS]

I read some more where people have posted the berries may give a dog diarrhea, others have said that their dogs eat them with no problems.

I was going to say that it could cause diarrhea too, but I don't trust anything in a public area since you never know what it's been treated with.

 

[Gretchen_Red]

Wow! I didn't know what a mulberry was either and I just thought it was a way of saying "wild berries". Are they edible?

 

[MyBuddy]

Wow! I didn't know what a mulberry was either and I just thought it was a way of saying "wild berries". Are they edible?

My son and his wife actually identified the large Mulberry on our back property a few years ago and were eating handfuls of them~ Yea, that was my initial reaction. lol I mean, I'm just not used to picking something that I can't identify and eating it! But she knew what it was and they thought it was awesome. Okaaaay. So now I know and it's pretty cool. If I liked it!
She ( my daughter in law) is very 'earthy' lol She even made me Dandelion jelly................that I haven't tried yet. I'm working on it!!!
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We had the invasive Himalayan Blackberry that was all over the place and produced delicious berries. The native blackberry plant was much less common, though not rare and produced a less luscious berry. I used to call them "cola berries." They had a slight taste of cheap cola.

We may have those too. I know there were a ton of bushes with thorns throughout this property that we had to eradicate when building. I believe my husband said they were blackberry. I hated them because of the thorns! I really don't like any plant with thorns. I even got rid of the few roses we had. They weren't doing that great anyway and I hated getting stuck, so I yanked them. One is still trying to come back! lol We do have barberry bushes, and I do like the color contrast in the garden but they can be a PITA too with all those thorns. Whenever we trim them we have to be sure to pick up all the droppings because of the dogs. Ouch!! Right now they are the only thorny plant I'm keeping.

Oh, and speaking of jelly, I'll never forget the neighbor that used to live next door here. She ran out back, grabbed some blackberry fruit from the back of her property, ran in and made some jelly before we both we out for a horseback ride! I was totally impressed, even though the only jelly I like is Strawberry Jelly (NOT Jam! )

 

[Oh Little Oji]

@MyBuddy wrote: "We may have those too. I know there were a ton of bushes with thorns throughout this property that we had to eradicate when building. I believe my husband said they were blackberry. I hated them because of the thorns! I really don't like any plant with thorns. I even got rid of the few roses we had. They weren't doing that great anyway and I hated getting stuck, so I yanked them. One is still trying to come back! lol We do have barberry bushes, and I do like the color contrast in the garden but they can be a PITA too with all those thorns. Whenever we trim them we have to be sure to pick up all the droppings because of the dogs. Ouch!! Right now they are the only thorny plant I'm keeping. "

Oh yes. Anyone who has lived in the Northwest Washington area and likes to be outdoors has been scratched hundreds of times by blackberry bushes. Those Himalayans throw shoots up and over other plants and can take them down given time. I used to root around in wooded areas a lot, sometimes making walking paths for my Dobe and me. Oh boy. One of the most irritating things is walking along and getting the front of your shoe caught on a young, thin vine growing across your path, and kicking that vine into your achilles tendon of the other leg.

Dandelions: You haven't been out pulling weeds, and decided to make a nice large dandelion plant your salad that day? It's good especially if you have a good amount of tasty dressing.

 

[MyBuddy]

I just came back from checking out my Mulberry tree (all around the Mulberry bush! lol ) and got several shots.

Here's the group that two Mulberry trees are in. They are in the inner part of that large group.


Just like the photo from google above, the tree has multiple shaped leaves on it.









And the grass shows a lot have fallen!


I went to the edge of our woods and found some blackberry. You can pick it out from this hogde podge of weeds by the three leaves and the fruit. That vine is one I hate! It wraps around everything, including a shoe @Tad !




Come on, Guys, I gotta post some photos!

 

[MichiH]

Do mulberries cause diarrhea? Pepper grabbed a few today at the soccer game and then shortly after the runs. She did get a mouth full, just a few.

 

[JanS]

Do mulberries cause diarrhea?

I wouldn't think so. Ours have really multiplied around here since this post started and the horse used to eat them like candy.

Edit: scratch what I said. It's elderberries we have, not mulberries.