and it was all my fault!!!!
my mother is abig green thumb... and she gave us these 3 beautiful baby and 2 full grown oleanders that she raises (she has about 20 at home) and she cuts the shoots and grows new ones... anyways....
well i had to repot them and bought these huge pots for them to grow into and brought them on my deck...i left the dirt 1/2 to 3/4 to the top of the pot thinking the "kids" wont bother with them knowing they are toxic!!!! WRONG!!!! braeli and bryson the 1st day jumped right into the pots to lay in the dirt.... 1st no no!!! but for the last week never bothered the plants or the dirt again...
well last night in their 1st 5 mins on the deck (where they play if not in the yard)... they jumped into 1 pot together, dug up the dirt and chewed the plants!!!!! i didnt know but my wife saw them not realizing that oleanders are TOXIC she thinks nothing of it... my sister-in-law comes over with her weinmeraner and the 3 kids play away and then my babies both puke 3 times each... all green leaves, dirt and bile...i look at he pots and OH NO!!! I FREAK!!!! I call my emergency vet and so on... but after the threw up they played and played and played and no reactions afterwards or this morning!!! thank god!!! I look again at the pots and they never ate the oleander!!!! ther were small tulip like bulbs my mother had planted nest to the oleander... maybe cochus plants... they ate 1 of those and part of the bulb of one.... it didnt sit well but thankfully no effect!!!
needless to say the pots are now off the deck and by my front entrance to the house where it is off limits to the kids!!! what a night of fear!!! |