Musa Basjoo and Dogs!!!!
This spring I cut down my Musa Basjoo dead stalks like I always have done every spring and left them to rot by the plants. My dog decided to eat part of one of the stalks and it blocked his intestine up. He had to have a $4000 emergency surgery to remove the bulk in his intestine and a foot of his intestine removed. Please make sure that your pets DO NOT eat them. When the vet pulled out the banana plant he kept telling me that is was string that he had eaten. I went in and looked at it and sure enough it was the stringy fiber from the banana plant.
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