[samm]

Now that the weather is getting warmer, I've noticed some poison ivy where I walk my dog, along a path in the woods. My question is are dogs able to get poison ivy.
If a dog brushes up against some poison ivy can they transport it to humans?


Thank you
Samm (John)

 

[RonE]

I guess you mean poison ivy.

Certainly dogs could be sensitive to poison ivy and transport it to humans.

 

[trainingjunkie]

It is much more likely that they will just transport it to their people and not be affected themselves. For whatever reason, they are not ver likely to react to it.

I took a pup to the vet with a raised and blistery rash was was assured that it was NOT poison ivy because a reaction was so rare in dogs.

However, I know many people who won't pet other peoples' dogs during poison ivy season because they are so sensitive to it that it will transfer to them from the dogs.

 

[kafkabeetle]

They can absolutely transfer the oils from the poison ivy from their fur to your skin. I'm extremely allergic to poison ivy/oak/sumac and had to learn that one the hard way. Urushiol is the compound that causes rashes in allergic people and I'm so allergic I can't even eat mangos. It is present in the skin of mangos but in small enough amounts that it doesn't effect most people.