Rhododendrons and dogs

[Elasticatedwaist]

I’ve just moved house and now have a garden. Just a been around the garden with the plant identifier app and it appears I have some rhododendrons and azaleas.
My dog hasn’t shown interest in eating anything in the garden so far, luckily, but the info tells me they are toxic.
I’ll have to dig them up won’t i ?
What a shame they are really big and prominent !

I'd take them out, DDog ate daffodil bulbs and was really unwell, he's also eaten a rat bat bait block, chocolate, socks, and we think cannabis resin he picked up off the street. He's an expensive fecker.

It's not worth the risk IMO. One day he might just want a nibble.

My garden is full of plants, bulbs & trees that are toxic to my two dogs and cat if ingested. They don’t eat them so they remain in the garden. No need to remove unless they have a penchant for plants.

My dog doesn't eat plants or other dogs' shit or other random stuff so I wouldn't get rid of established plants for him.

Only you know what kind of dog you have.

I’ve got rhododendrons and my dog has never shown any interest in them or any other plant.

I would think most plants are toxic to dogs . I don’t have Monkshoods as they are deadly and I was a bit paranoid about them when my dc were tiny, but I have foxgloves, daffodils, lily of the valley etc. If I pulled out anything toxic there wouldn’t be much left…. i have always had dogs.
Grandmother’s garden was full of Azaleas and Rhododendrons , and also home to several dogs, multiple dogs over the years. Never an issue.

The only thing I'm careful about is Lillies with the cat - I put them up high in pots out of his way so he can't brush against them then lick the pollen off his fur.

The dog likes to chew on a plant pot and frequently buries chews in the posts but hasn't chewed on a plant since she was a puppy.

I wouldn't worry unless the dog is a known chewer and can't be trusted.

Depends how toxic they are really.

I would never have Monkshood, Oleander or Foxglove for example as they are lethal if chewed.

If the extent of their toxicity if chewed is a sore tummy I’d probably keep them.

Though thinking about it I am fairly sure azalea and Rhododendron are actually toxic to bees, think I remember reading something once about a chemical in them making the honey toxic for people too.
So actually I think I’d get rid of them myself after all.

Jeez, if I didn't have a plant that was possibly toxic to DS or DDogs, it'd be paved over throughout...

@Elasticatedwaist sorry I know this is a couple of months old now. I am about to get a puppy and have just found out rhododendrons are poisonous to dogs. I have a couple of very. large ones in my garden. Not sure whether I should be fencing of a safe area for the puppy or watching his behaviour and whether he’s interested in plants first. What did you do in the end? As another poster said I’d be paved over if I took everything with any degree of toxicity out. Not sure what to do for the best.

In our case all the rhododendrons but one are in the front garden. The one in the back garden was a smallish azalea so I dug that up meaning our dog can go in the back unsupervised. I watch him if I let him
out the front but tbh he hasn’t shown any interest in eating them. So hopefully all will be well. He is 6 years old though so not a puppy. Fencing off an area sounds like it might be a good idea.

I have a plant eating dog but he's ignored the rhododendron so far.