Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine & Veterinary Hospital shared a warning about these dangerous mushrooms and the potential threat they pose to our pets.

Mushroom Identification

When it comes to mushrooms, you have to be very careful when identifying them before ingesting them. One wrong ID and the consequences could range from making you very sick to even deadly.

According to Mushroom Expert , some of the reasons identifying different mushrooms can be such a struggle is that there are numerous variations, and you cannot simply compare a mushroom to a picture and automatically obtain an ID.

Identifying mushrooms is often much more difficult than identifying birds, for example, or trees. There are tens of thousands of species, many of which have not even been named!

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