Mark McDonough wrote: “Rodger Whitlock wrote: >Be aware that ordinary culinary alliums are toxic to dogs and cats. One of the chapters in Dr. Eric Block's book is "5.13 Don't feed your dog onion or garlic!" I’m not convinced yet. For instance, bears and dogs are related as mammals go, and bears eat wild garlics. Not for nothing is the name of Allium ursinum in German Bärlauch (from the words for bear and leek - and of course the ursinum part refers to bears, too). My dog won’t eat garlicky pizza, but then when I was a kid I wouldn’t eat anything that smelled like that, either. Jim McKenney jimmckenney@jimmckenney.com Montgomery County, Maryland, USA, 39.03871º North, 77.09829º West, USDA zone 7 My Virtual Maryland Garden http://www.jimmckenney.com/ BLOG! http://mcwort.blogspot.com/ Webmaster Potomac Valley Chapter, NARGS Editor PVC Bulletin http://www.pvcnargs.org/ Webmaster Potomac Lily Society http://www.potomaclilysociety.org/