Kitten eating fungi
 

With all the rain we've been having, some meaty looking
fungi came up under some trees. We usually only have
toad stools.

A kitten was licking and chewing on some with gusto. When
I knocked it away several times it kept going back for
more. It hasn't gotten sick or died yet.

I'm enclosing a link, hopefully someone can identify what
kind of fungi it is.


https://www.dropbox.com/sh/1vjguky1s...U3Me0o-za?dl=0

Kitten eating fungi
 

Desert Dweller wrote:
With all the rain we've been having, some meaty looking
fungi came up under some trees. We usually only have
toad stools.

A kitten was licking and chewing on some with gusto. When
I knocked it away several times it kept going back for
more. It hasn't gotten sick or died yet.

I'm enclosing a link, hopefully someone can identify what
kind of fungi it is.


https://www.dropbox.com/sh/1vjguky1s...U3Me0o-za?dl=0


I don't know. There are some weird fungi about.

How about this one from my paddock.

http://i1086.photobucket.com/albums/...angeFungus.jpg


Is it a stinkhorn fungus (Phallaceae)? I have not seen my dogs eating it.

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Kitten eating fungi
 

David wrote:
Desert Dweller wrote:
With all the rain we've been having, some meaty looking
fungi came up under some trees. We usually only have
toad stools.

A kitten was licking and chewing on some with gusto. When
I knocked it away several times it kept going back for
more. It hasn't gotten sick or died yet.

I'm enclosing a link, hopefully someone can identify what
kind of fungi it is.


https://www.dropbox.com/sh/1vjguky1s...U3Me0o-za?dl=0
I don't know. There are some weird fungi about.
How about this one from my paddock.
http://i1086.photobucket.com/albums/...angeFungus.jpg
Is it a stinkhorn fungus (Phallaceae)? I have not seen my dogs eating it.
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David
Wow...... no kidding some weird fungi.

The kitten seems no worse for eating the fungi.

I'll just keep eating store bought mushrooms.

There are some ravines about 100 miles from here where there
are always a lot of different fungi growing when it rains. I'm not
brave enough to try any, even if an expert were here assuring me
they were safe. I had some good mushrooms at the Chinese
restaurant today.

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Kitten eating fungi
 

On 27/09/2014 3:12 PM, David Hare-Scott wrote:
Desert Dweller wrote:
With all the rain we've been having, some meaty looking
fungi came up under some trees. We usually only have
toad stools.

A kitten was licking and chewing on some with gusto. When
I knocked it away several times it kept going back for
more. It hasn't gotten sick or died yet.

I'm enclosing a link, hopefully someone can identify what
kind of fungi it is.


https://www.dropbox.com/sh/1vjguky1s...U3Me0o-za?dl=0


I don't know. There are some weird fungi about.

How about this one from my paddock.

http://i1086.photobucket.com/albums/...angeFungus.jpg

Snort! How did you take that? Upside down with your feet on the ground
or doing trick riding and haning from a stirrup? :-))

Is it a stinkhorn fungus (Phallaceae)? I have not seen my dogs eating it.

Before the link opened, I was thinking that the dogs woudld be more
likely to roll in a stinky fungi, but rolling on that would be rather
difficult ;-))

Kitten eating fungi
 

Fran Farmer wrote:
On 27/09/2014 3:12 PM, David Hare-Scott wrote:
Desert Dweller wrote:
With all the rain we've been having, some meaty looking
fungi came up under some trees. We usually only have
toad stools.

A kitten was licking and chewing on some with gusto. When
I knocked it away several times it kept going back for
more. It hasn't gotten sick or died yet.

I'm enclosing a link, hopefully someone can identify what
kind of fungi it is.


https://www.dropbox.com/sh/1vjguky1s...U3Me0o-za?dl=0


I don't know. There are some weird fungi about.

How about this one from my paddock.

http://i1086.photobucket.com/albums/...angeFungus.jpg

Snort! How did you take that? Upside down with your feet on the
ground or doing trick riding and haning from a stirrup? :-))

Is it a stinkhorn fungus (Phallaceae)? I have not seen my dogs
eating it.

Before the link opened, I was thinking that the dogs woudld be more
likely to roll in a stinky fungi, but rolling on that would be rather
difficult ;-))

At least it doesn't eat kittens.

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David

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Kitten eating fungi
 

On 9/25/2014 1:32 PM, Desert Dweller wrote:
With all the rain we've been having, some meaty looking
fungi came up under some trees. We usually only have
toad stools.

A kitten was licking and chewing on some with gusto. When
I knocked it away several times it kept going back for
more. It hasn't gotten sick or died yet.

I'm enclosing a link, hopefully someone can identify what
kind of fungi it is.


https://www.dropbox.com/sh/1vjguky1s...U3Me0o-za?dl=0

Would've been better to ask over at alt.nature.mushrooms. Looks like a
Clitocybe to me, and while I'm not at all well versed in the genus this
doesn't especially look like one of the species I happen to remember as
being edible. The mushrooms aren't nearly as strange as the behavior is.

I've heard of cats eating some pretty unconventional things before, but
not mushrooms. Possibly the cat has some nutritional deficit?