# vegetable eating dog

Category: Animal House

## Post 1 by kithri (Help me, I'm stuck to my chair!) on Tuesday, 11-Aug-2009 20:17:52

Okay, I have a lab I rescued because no one would adopt her because she's near ten and going blind. Someone did train her for hunting, though. Anyway, I've a garden with all the common stuff: carrots, potatoes, tomatoes, strawberries, peapods, several beans and more. This crazy dog will go into the garden and literally pull green or ripe tomatoes off the plants and eat them and she does the same with strawberries. She will eat anything, but she loves raw vegetables. Thankfully, the carrots and potatoes are underground and the zuccini and cucumbers don't smell until you peel them. She pulls potted peas off the plants and green and yellow beans.
I know vegies are good for animals like dogs, but is mine the only one that will go and pick her own? And, isn't usually dogs like cooked vegies?
Chas

## Post 2 by Daenerys Targaryen (Enjoying Life) on Tuesday, 11-Aug-2009 21:41:00

I have a Lab too, but my dog is a guide dog. The only vegetables he's ate are carrots.

## Post 3 by Dirty Little Oar (I'd rather be rowing.) on Tuesday, 11-Aug-2009 22:06:01

Be careful about the tomatoes. I have seen many sources that claim tomatoes are poisonous to dogs.

## Post 4 by bozmagic (The rottie's your best friend if you want him/her to be, lol.) on Wednesday, 12-Aug-2009 6:27:16

Oo'oo'oo shit! I know a certain Rottie who loves his raw, onions and carrots. He'll even, take them straight off a fork when everyone's finished with their plates, lol, same applies with his two Staffy Colly Cross housemates, lol.
Jen.

## Post 5 by Reyami (I've broken five thousand! any more awards going?) on Wednesday, 12-Aug-2009 9:17:13

I don't think my dog Jackson would even eat tomatoes. He doesn't eat lettuce or cucumbers either. lol

## Post 6 by kithri (Help me, I'm stuck to my chair!) on Wednesday, 12-Aug-2009 14:53:37

I just thought this was an interesting point and I didn't know if anyone else had one like this. As for the tomatoes, I try to keep her out of the garden as much as possible and I've got a large bell on her so I know where she is and thankfully she has been trained well and listens well.
I did have a yellow lab guide dog some years ago and when she got to old to work anymore, I kept her as a pet, but I haven't decided if I'm going to apply to Guide Dogs for the Blind out of San Rafel California yet to get another one. It was really great when I lived in the cities were there was all the traffic, but in a small town there isn't that much traffic except during crops picking time when the trucks are hauling corn, sugar beets, and peas and soy beans.
Chas