Re: What's been living under my shed?
Originally Posted by
TessA
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I've emailed my council for advice as plum stones contain cyanide, I don't want to create dust from their insides by shovelling them up, we could breathe it in! I'll keep pets off it too.
Also rat pee can give you Weil's disease.
I think most fruit stones contain cyanide Tess, I know cherry stones do and apple core pips do, that's why I don't ever give my dogs apple core's to munch.
I should think you'd have to have a fair quantity of them to be harmful though, and not many of us eat the stones/pips.
I would be more worried about rat urine.
I never leave any dogs water, or any of their toys outside over night for this reason.
I am also very wary of leaving toys out because of slugs/snails crawling over them and introducing lungworm.