Is my dog crazy?

[Larry Caldwell]

People think dogs are carnivores, but they are not. Dogs are opportunistic omnivores, closely related to bears. In they wild, canids relish the contents of their prey's stomachs, and eat fruits and other plants as they encounter them.

My dogs love blackberry season. I also picked apples last weekend, and my dog now snags an apple from the box on her way to her kennel in the mornings. They haven't discovered my tomatoes yet.

 

[ToadHill]

I gave up planting snow peas. I tried them for a couple of years b ut I could never beat the dog to them once they ripened.

 

[tallyho8]

We had an old Great Dane for a short time who loved to eat all the bad tomatoes that we would throw him.

The spring after he left us we were surprised by all of the well fertilized tomato plants that popped up where he did his business.

 

[MossRoad]

Our neighbor's dog comes over and gets the fallen pears and apples and munches them down. She also eats green tomatoes out of their garden. :laughing:

 

[rescuebob]

My dogs would climb the trees (if they could) to get to the cherries.
Also like tomatoes and apples.

Robert

 

[MoKelly]

We have a terrier/schnauzer mix named Lucky. Great dog and truly man's best friend.

My son calls him a billy goat terrier since he will eat everything. He eats the tomatoes and peppers in the garden. He also eats grass sometimes.

MoKelly

 

[nebraskasparks]

Sounds like you are definitely established on the land...just think of all the stories you can tell your grandchildren.

 

[NSBound]

My cat when I was kid loved olives - my Dad would feed them to him one by one until he had enough. Funny the things that stick in your memory, that was 50 years ago .

 

[Tig]

My dog loved fruit and vegtables. She would eat cherry tomatoes off the plant.

 

[jbooth]

When I was a youngster we had a lab that loved pears. After she got some age on her and was deaf due to being exposed to lots of shooting. She would lay in the yard and apparently feel the pears dropping. A pear would fall and she was on it instantly. Was a lot of competetion with the coyotes for the pears as well as watermelon and cantalope. She may have just wanted them to keep the coyotes from getting them. The lab liked sweet corn also.