Does Your Dog Like Fruit?

Our Basset Hound loves all fruit and veggies. Of course, we don't feed him fruits and veggies that are poisonous to dogs.

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My very picky shih tzu loves cooked broccoli, crunchy and cooked carrots, and the occasional blueberry, but he hasn't taken to watermelon at all, nor bananas. My late pup would eat as much watermelon as you'd allow, but he would eat pretty much anything. ;)

Our wolfhound likes pumpkin. Our Basset hound will eat just about anything, even stuff she should not be eating.

I used to eat a couple of oranges a day when I was a kid. We had a Schnauzer that loved oranges. I would always cut the orange into quarters and usually ate them in the basement where the tv was. I'd throw the peels into the garbage down there. He was always sneaking the peels out...loved to throw them around in the air and chomp into them. Weird!

We have two rescue greyhounds who will eat anything you offer them fruit or vegetable except lettuce.

I'm reading that grapes and avocado are no no's for dogs.

I pretty much know the other no no's too.

I always check the safety factor before introducing a new treat.

Years ago my wife planted a small tomato garden and we eventually had to put a fence around it because our foxhound would eat the ripe ones off the vine.

Cocoa loved watermelon. I always had to share. She also liked bananas and strawberries.

As for veggies, carrots were her favorite either raw or cooked.

My labradors will eat anything except lettuce and mushrooms. We have a vineyard and they eat grapes on a regular basis without Ill effects, although I have heard that grapes are bad for dogs.

Grapes will eventually but sometimes suddenly destroy your dogs kidneys...

My Little Bit r.i.p. used to eat anything, Buddy my old and faithful is strictly a meat,chicken and fish lover but will eat potato chips. :-)

Btw, nice melons Robert!!!

my dog eats everything, what he receives in my kitchen, but if I give the same thing outside the kitchen, he look at it suspiciously.

for instance raw broccoli.. He ate it inside the kitchen with great pleasure, outsite he wouldn't even look at it
I think he believes that everything dropped for him in the kitchen is special :D

I don't have a dog but I caught my cat on my kitchen counter munching on raw broccoli of all things. When I approached him he ran away with a piece of broccoli in his mouth lol.

This is a cat who has no interest in roast beef/tuna/chicken etc.

Odd cat lol.

Robert,

Nice watermelon!

Both my dogs love watermelon!

The little dog will eat almost anything EXCEPT bananas. I offer banana to him just because it is funny...he runs away from it sneezing. The big dog is more picky...he smells things first. He likes most dog safe vegetables and fruit but he doesn't like bananas either.


Dora,

Dropped stuff in the kitchen...it doesn't work anymore but for a while it did - if I had to give the little dog a pill I'd just drop it on the kitchen floor. You are right dropped stuff is the most special!

I have noticed a difference in receptivity to new fruits or veggies, determined by HOW I offer them. When I first offered banana, I held a piece by the edge, with part of it sticking out of my fingers, so the dog could easily grab it with his teeth. Yeah, he grabbed it, but immediately dropped it, and ate it reluctantly off the floor. I discovered, though, that if I place the piece of banana in the center of my palm and offer it with my hand flat, fingers closed (like you feed a horse a treat without getting fingers bitten off), then he gulped it down. This has remained my way of offering banana pieces - center palm, hand flat, fingers closed, or, similarly, I back hand it, when I'm facing away. I take a bite, then bite off a piece for the dog, offer it backhanded, he gulps it down, and so the cycle continues until the whole banana is gone.

Carrots are another story -- I can offer slices of those sticking straight out, and the devouring occurs in about two seconds. Watermelon gets the palm method. I guess the moisture factor (softness factor) somehow figures in.

My two dogs, Sami and Miko love carrots, but I have to slice them up. If I try to give them a baby carrot, they pick it up and spit it out over and over. They also love apples, pears, cauliflower and watermelon. If I try to give them bananas, blueberries or strawberries, they pick it up, spit it out and then look at me like, are you trying to poison us??? LOL!!!

Never had a dog that ate fruits that I can remember.

But we did have a strange cat that loved corn on the cobb. Ate the corn off the cobb so clean it looked like it was cut off with a knife. Didn't seem to matter if it was cooked or not. We had to be careful when she was done with the cobb or she would run off with it and hide it.

Damndest thing I ever saw. I always bought extra corn for her whenever we had it.