Does your dog eat fruit???
By tina2696
@tina2696 (127)
United States
August 18, 2008 9:17am CST
My crazy dog has an addiction to pears!!! I have 2 pear trees in my backyard, the branches are just full of fruit and a bit droopy. My crazy dog, Lucy, walks over to the tree, plucks a pear and then runs and hides to eat them. Its kinda funny to watch her be all sneaky, she knows its bad. The pears aren't even ripe yet!! Now my 3 yr old daughter is getting in on the action. They were sitting in the middle of the yard sharing a pear this morning. I of course could not find the camera quick enough. I guess I should be greatful the dog is willing to share.....but I still think I may have to put a fence around the trees. What do you think? Does your dog do anything like this???
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21 responses
@mimico (3617)
• Philippines
19 Aug 08
That's actually funny. ANd to think that your daughter is eating the fruit as well!!! But we don't feed our pets human food. My vet tells me that eating anything other than dog food will damage the dogs' fur and skin, so we never give them real human food to eat. SOmetimes we'd sneak some chocolate to them as a treat but it only happens once a year when we have too much candies from trick or treating. :)
@auntiedis (165)
• United States
21 Aug 08
The darker the chocolate the worse it is for the dog. White chocolate is not bad, and milk chocolate is ok. Bakers chocolate is darker so it's more lethal. And of course, it all depends on how much of it they consume.
@tina2696 (127)
• United States
19 Aug 08
Chocolate is supposed to be dangerous to dogs. Although, it does not seem to bother my dog at all!! 2 xmas's ago she got into my presents, I am a huge chocoholic!! She ate a 5 pound box of german chocolates and 2 one pound bags of m&ms. It did nothing to her but I cried for days!! lol
@oveysteve (27)
• Nigeria
18 Aug 08
my dog thus not eat fruit infact i have never see any dog eating fruit
@palonghorn (5479)
• United States
18 Aug 08
That is toooo cute, them sharing a pear. My dog loves bananas, cantelope and watermelon. Well she did like watermelon, until one day when she decided she didn't like it anymore. I was scooping it out, handing her a bite, and I thought she was eating it. To my surprise, she was looking the other way and spitting it out where I couldn't see it, until I got up to take the plate inside! And there was this little pile of watermelon. lol She still loves bananas though, and apples.
@snowy22315 (179587)
• United States
18 Aug 08
The only fruit or veg. that my dog seems to like is carrots. I let him eat them because I think they are good for his teeth. Never give your dog onions or grapes though. They can be toxic. Dogs are best to stick to dogfood if possible,but it's hard when they always want to eat everything. the little stinkers.
@TheCatLady (4691)
• Israel
18 Aug 08
Boy are carrots good fore there teeth. I started to give my dog carrots for her diet and now she has supper clean teeth. They just took of all that nasty stuff so I don't need to get them cleaned. That s good because she needs a frequent expensive blood tests until her thyroid is balanced.
@spalladino (17891)
• United States
18 Aug 08
My little dog, Sugar, showed up at our gate one day a few years ago and has been our dog every since so we don't know much about her. What we do know is that she understand some Spanish (we live in Florida) and that she loves the little bananas that grow around here. She's normally a sweet dog but she will try to rip your hand off is she gets her paws on a coconut that's been opened. She also likes watermelon.
@tyler1990 (47)
• Philippines
19 Aug 08
HEHEHE.. your Dog is so funny and kinda sound cute.. i love dogs a lot. i have 9 year old dog named SAKURA.. hehehe. i named her after one of my favorite anime character . from the anime series CARD CAPTOR SAKURA...hehehe.. my dog eats everything.. like if she saw you eating, she will also going to eat the food.. heheh. basically everything.
@Xdrowninghavocx (3117)
• United States
19 Aug 08
Yeah they do. We have three dogs, two are puppies, and they all enjoy the taste of different fruits and veggies. They really like several types of berries. So we buy packs of frozen fruits and add them to their meals. We also have a small apple tree in our yard and they eat a lot of the apples that have fallen, lol.
@auntiedis (165)
• United States
19 Aug 08
My dog is a lab, she will eat pretty much everything, except lettuce. But she DOES like spinach leaves. In fact, she'll go nuts for it. Tomatos, apples, she's not picky!
@lixiaos77 (1030)
• Shijiazhuang, China
19 Aug 08
I believe it can have fruit. A couple years ago I found a vendor sold a baby dog to a man. He advise the man not to feed meat to the dog would not have cereals and vegetables. And one of my cowork said that she feed her dog with gourd and cereal. So I believe it is not strange that the dog eat fruit.
@rhumbo623 (86)
• Philippines
19 Aug 08
yeah,some dogs eats some fruits and vegies.
our dog always begs when we eat something, he comes running after us.
i let him perform a trick and after he did i gave him a banana.
he loves to eat too.
@roxanne271 (2034)
• Trinidad And Tobago
18 Aug 08
Haha and here i thought my dogs where the only ones who did this odd thing.
I have two dogs, a pure white one and a mixed white and brown one.
The white one loves to cherries. We have a cherries tree in our backyard and every morning I pick some and give it to him when the tree is bearing fruit. Right now it is in season so I do that. I hardly eat those cherries myself. I picked some for my boyfriend the other day and I use them to decorate desserts when I am taking pictures of it.
The brown and white one loves to lick the juice of the cashew fruit when I am collecting the seed/nut. SO I usually poke a hole in the cashew fruit with my finger and squeeze it so the juice would come flowing out and he just laps it up.
They both eat ripe bananas, watermelon and a host of other fruits and veges, but usually if the veges are cooked not raw. I think it's nice that they eat it, it's natural and I bet it'll keep them healthy.
@blackmantra_x (2732)
• Philippines
18 Aug 08
Good day... Wow great dog. My dog has the same urges to eat bananas and watermelon. It really drives me crazy watching my dog eating it but still I love her so much.
@StarChild517 (657)
• United States
18 Aug 08
All the dogs I had in my lifetime never liked fruit but my great dane on the other hand loves pickles and will eat a huge jar of them if you let him or usually he helps himself.
@Jade13 (262)
• Malaysia
18 Aug 08
My pet pug eats all kinds of fruits. When you eat banana, she will come running to you and begging for it. She can smell mangoes as soon as you walk through the door. She eats apples, pears, oranges, papaya and even vegetables!Luckily she's too short to steal any fruits from the tables. HAHA