Bellingham family with two pugs learns that mushrooms can be fatal to pets

On Nov. 2, Renee Bliss of Bellingham was in Seattle helping a friend find flowers for a wedding and her husband, Bill, was out of town on business when she learned the terrible news.

Their son Dustin had gone to their house on Lake Whatcom and found Milo, the family's 8-year-old pug, dead, and their other pug, 10-year-old Maggie, in bad shape with vomiting and diarrhea.