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Pets & Working Animals => Dogs => Topic started by: gingercloverbramble on May 17, 2013, 01:40:21 pm

Title: Dogs and apples
Post by: gingercloverbramble on May 17, 2013, 01:40:21 pm
I have a nine year old working cocker spaniel who always enjoys sitting down and sharing an apple with me (obviously I slice it off with a knife and give him slices....!!).  However, I keep having this niggle that I read somewhere that apples weren't good for dogs?!?  Can anyone shed any light?  He totally loves apples!!
Title: Re: Dogs and apples
Post by: happygolucky on May 17, 2013, 02:50:56 pm
Hope not, some times I give ours an apple each!!!! maybe its the pips....... :o
Title: Re: Dogs and apples
Post by: in the hills on May 17, 2013, 03:22:19 pm
We have always given raw carrots to our greedy labs as a healthy snack and the occasional slice of apple.


Seem to recall that the apple itself is fine. I think the pips themselves contain something toxic/poisonous. Seem to remember cyanide  :o  ..... might not be that though.  ;D  Think they would have to consume a large quantity to cause a problem even if it were that. I know a couple of people that eat the entire apple, including core and pips  ::)  and does them no harm.


My neighbours greedy lab has an apple a day ..... and he is ten and looking good.  :tree: [size=78%] [/size]
Title: Re: Dogs and apples
Post by: Clarebelle on May 17, 2013, 03:25:47 pm
Yeah, the pips contain a substance which, when metabolised, creates cyanide which is why they shouldn't be eaten (although the amount produced is tiny).

Haven't heard anything about apple flesh though  :dog:
Title: Re: Dogs and apples
Post by: Old Shep on May 17, 2013, 04:49:17 pm
yes apples are fine but not the pips.  In fact I think there's apple in the food I feed - Natural instinct raw.
Title: Re: Dogs and apples
Post by: bigchicken on May 17, 2013, 05:00:58 pm
Oh !, I always eat the whole Apple thinking the pips would just pass though. One of my old labs loved an Apple and used to steel them from any beaters who were not looking.
Title: Re: Dogs and apples
Post by: happygolucky on May 17, 2013, 05:25:35 pm
I give our Labs the odd apple or carrot, lasts longer than any other treat and they appear to love them!!
 
Title: Re: Dogs and apples
Post by: SallyintNorth on May 17, 2013, 06:11:32 pm
I usually eat my apple cores and pear cores too.  If I have a house dog, I usually give the cores to them.  I'm pretty sure none of them has ever been poisoned...
Title: Re: Dogs and apples
Post by: gingercloverbramble on May 17, 2013, 08:23:28 pm
Thanks for all your comments folks.
Sounds like we should be safe enough to continue sharing our apple a day then, eh? ;)
Title: Re: Dogs and apples
Post by: spandit on May 18, 2013, 09:15:07 pm
Give my dogs awful wind...
Title: Re: Dogs and apples
Post by: mentalmilly on May 18, 2013, 10:34:35 pm
My dogs a total fruit bat.  Not tried him on fresh apples but he likes dried slices of apple.  :)
Title: Re: Dogs and apples
Post by: Shropshirelass on May 29, 2013, 09:22:21 pm
My dog loves fruit & vet especially bananas & apples ( Personally I'm not a fan of apples - they make you hungry after eating!) & he loves cucumbers & berries & so did our last dog & oddly cabbage & melon skins. But the dog will sit & eat berries off the bushes when we're picking them! - The only trouble is if its wimberries my dog comes back purple - no probs with the last 1 she was black  ;D
Title: Re: Dogs and apples
Post by: jaykay on May 29, 2013, 09:42:40 pm
My dogs love apples and if I eat too far into the core, get positively anxious. Then I have to bite it evenly into three pieces.....

The pips contain cyanide. My dogs - and I - have been eating them for a lot of years! And whilst we may all be odd I don't think it can be blamed on apple pips  ;)
Title: Re: Dogs and apples
Post by: sokel on May 29, 2013, 09:45:56 pm
When I had my Newfoundland she loved apples and would choose a whole apple over a dog treat , she must have had 2-3 apples every week for the 9 years of her life and  never had any ill effect from them
Title: Re: Dogs and apples
Post by: shygirl on June 06, 2013, 08:28:29 pm
my lab loves apples, and as hes on a diet - they are guilt free!