Dog Food

[Hettster]

Whats the strangest food your dog eats?
I ask because mine will eat lettuce, apple cores, swede peelings and the top and tail of carrots.

[barb1314]

My lab has never refused any type of fruit or veg and we've given her everything you could think of including beetroot and kiwi fruit! Never give a dog grapes though as they can be toxic.She has carrot,apple and banana almost every day instead of fattening biscuity treats. She is really slim and fit and has a brilliant shiny coat. Her absolute favourite treat is a bit of yoghurt. My collie also loved her fruit and veg and lived until she was 17.

[lankeela]

Apple pips can be toxic too.

[barb1314]

Absolutely Lankeela,I should have said that.I take them out of the cores for Lottie.Thank you.

[ttfn]

Snap Hettster, my old blind rescued poodle loved raw swede. The newfi would eat anything going but adored fresh strawberries, and my last dog - a rescued boxer could not get enough twiglets! Always had to share some of my marmite on toast too.

[JonnyBoy12]

Would a dog eat cat food, I wonder?

[jules77]

Mine will eat bird seed given the chance.

[Purple_Popple]

My dog would eat tomatoes, carrots, cucumber, apples with the core n pips, raisins, also grapes loads of them, never did him any harm...at the time didnt realise they were toxic !! He lived to 14....he never suffered arthiritis or anything even into his senior years...his teeth were perfect too! :)

[boxtops]

My cats eat curry

[ttfn]

You forgot to mention also - anything left lying around or upon the kitchen top boxy ☺What a memory I have

[RATTER15]

PP, be very carefull, grapes can kill dogs!!

We only feed raw human grade meat to our dopgs, this is supplemented with fruit ,veg, yoghurt and fish and plenty of raw bones, including chicken bones! and they have a whole apple each every day, complete with pips, very good for their teeth :-)

[RATTER15]

read this about grapes. http://www.tipking.co.uk/tip/6640.html

[pastafreak]

JonnyBoy12
Would a dog eat cat food, I wonder?

Oh...definitely.......mine supplements her diet when she can if the cats back is turned. But the cat digs into her food also....... ;-))

[Purple_Popple]

Hello Ratter, NB - 'he lived to 14' - I no longer have him....but the grapes never did him any harm whatsoever ! !

[wolf63]

My first dog used to eat a bar of Yorkie chocolate every Friday. It was his treat for being good - not that he was ever good, just less of a pest than usual.

You hear of dogs eating almost everything - stones, underwear, toys, hamsters, walls, sofas, cars etc etc

Does anybody have a dog that eats little black and white tom cats?

[tara20]

I had a cocker spaniel who loved liver and rice - but only if there were onions in it.
Next was a crossbreed who was a vegetarian, then came Tara who could tell the difference between butter and marge on bread (wouldn't touch it). Sandy would sell his soul for a Malteser!

[JonnyBoy12]

Bit of a silly question eh then? Next question, would a human eat dog food, if they were hungry enough?

[boxtops]

yes

[RATTER15]

Also a silly question!!

[B00]

i was under the impression, that dogs could (and often did) eat anything that didn't move out of their way quick enough. They are afterall, biologically speaking, scavengers, are they not? I can't imagine in their dim and distant past they could afford to be fussy over what they quaffed.

[RATTER15]

BOO!!! excuse me! what are you implying? my poor dogs dont scavenge!! Shame on you.

They only eat fresh meat from the butcher!! tutut!!