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Re: [RC] my mother-in-law and oleander - Jo Ann Knight


Look for the book by Sand ra M. Burger "Horse Owner's Field Guide to Toxic
Plants".

I have it because almost all pictures are in color.  I have never been able
to correctly match black and white pictures to the plants, in most cases
anyway.

This book give toxicity, amounts it takes, treatment if any.  It is full of
stuff.

Jo Ann



-------Original Message------- 

From: Jennifer Adam 
Date: 9/6/2006 7:44:56 PM 
To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Subject: [RC] my mother-in-law and oleander 

My mother-in-law tried to give me an oleander houseplant. I freaked out and 
made my husband burn it - at the time I had two kids under the age of 3. She

was offended - until I showed her the plant book that lists it as extremely 
toxic and hazardous to small children and pets. Now we can joke about giving

poisonous houseplants...but at the time it was not funny! 

To relate this back to endurance - 
I always thought that only bored or hungry horses would munch on poisonous 
plants. I never thought about an endurance horse snatching a bad bite along 
the trail. I've been encouraging my horses to snatch quick bites as we ride,

but now I worry. I don't know enough to identify toxic plants...how big of a

problem is this usually??? Do you just look out for the really bad ones? 

Jen Adam 

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