Hi all,
Please be aware of wild mushrooms that may grow in your lawn or yard. Our dog Panda almost died from eating one. He is doing better, but we don't know the long term effects yet. The picture shows the mushrooms a bit dried and chewed. They were identified as chlorophyllum molybdites, which I've learned are fairly common.
My wife and I were talking by a patio door around noon on Aug 31st. We heard Panda starting to throw up outside and kept an eye on him. I went out to get him and he needed to vomit again, only this time it was everything he had eaten that morning. He then lied down and had was very listless. We brought him in the house and his eyes rolled back and he wasn't responding to his name at all. We drove him to the vet and they said he was in shock. A steroid injection woke him up, but a few minutes later he had bloody diarrhea. A blood sample they had taken wouldn't clot either so we took him to an emergency clinic. While there, his diarrhea continued, and then they noticed he was bleeding in his abdomen. He had to get a plasma transfusion that took several hours so we went home to see what he had eaten to give the vets a better idea of what they were dealing with. It was then that we found the chewed mushrooms on the lawn, near a spot that he likes to frequent. We are not 100% sure it was the mushrooms, but it seems like the most likely thing that happened. Other than those symptoms he had no appetite for a few days afterwards, he still continued the extreme listlessness, and his nose started to bleed as well.