Does anyone have any experience of dogs eating Cotoneaster plants?  Our retriever will eat absolutely anything, but she is always pulling up the roots and also consuming the branches of this plant.  She gets diarrohea and sometimes sickness quite often and I wonder whether it has anything to do with this plant.  She has been tested by the vet, but they just dismiss it as "one of those things" or "it could be anything she's picked up".

I read an article posted on this website about a link between Cotoneaster and Campylobacter.  The weird thing is that my little girl contracted Campylobacter at the same time as the dog was poorly around 6 months ago. The vet dismissed it and said it was just a coincidence. But obviously if there is a link, then I would gladly dispose of all the shrubs in the garden.

I unfortunately dont know what cotoneaster is, specifically.  We have though had puppies to get sick for apparently no reason, be real sick(vomiting/diahreah/listlessness) for awhile(couple of days), then get better.  Last time we spent big bucks at the vet, the vet told us the puppy we had had for a week must have parvo and to plan for its death(talk to our kids).  then the puppy got better and the vet decided it was the puppy flu.  Now we have  another puppy with extremely similar symptoms and another that isnt quite so bad off.... a little history, the first sick puppy, our neighbor had her brother and they were both sick.  He was bigger than her and not as sick, but she was near death.  The girl that was sick first in our family is the mom of the two who are now sick.  She has been healthy for well over 2 years, but now one of her sons and one of her daughters are sick very similarly, the girl is smaller and so very sick and the boy is pretty big and just seems under the weather.  Maybe doesnt really (at all) answer your question, but seemed to be on a similar vein.

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A poster in the local hospital chidrens clinic lists many poisonous plants and both cotoneaster and pyracantha are listed as poisonous, diarrhoea and vomiting being the main symptoms.  Tulip and Daffodils are also listed, the whole plants and bulbs are poisonous, same symptoms.