Vegetables

[walshie 2,804]

I try to give my lurcher a few veg with his dinner most days. Mostly it's whatever we have left over from dinner, but recently the local knowall told me not to feed broccoli as it's poisonous to dogs. I've checked online and can't see anything to confirm that. It'd be a shame as he loves a bit of broccoli. Can anyone confirm or deny that? Cheers.

 

[just-A-snap 1,269]

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=broccoli+as+it%27s+poisonous+to+dogs.&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=DLqOWdiaOqbJgAaEur7oCg

 

Broccoli Is Safe in Small Amounts, But It Can Be Harmful. Unlike humans, dogs don't need large amounts of fruits and vegetables to live healthy lives. ... According to Dr. Klein, broccoli florets contain isothiocyanates, which can cause mild-to-potentially-severe gastric irritation in some dogs.15 Jul 2016

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[socks 32,253]

It's the same as anything when feeding your dogs ... meat should be the main bulk and whatever you add should be in moderation ... to much onion and garlic can cause Heinz anemia ... carrots are high in sugers so to many of those are bad for the dog ... the list goes on and on .... if everything is fed in sensible amounts then there is no problem ........

[socks 32,253]

Townie twat ........

[forest of dean redneck 11,652]

I think small amounts of veg is supposed to replicate the part digested stomach contents of a wild canines prey that would been consumed if you believe all that stuff.

[Aussie Whip 4,124]

My bulldogs will scoff down any veg, the lurchers will eat all the meaty bits and spit the veg back into their bowl,so no chance of poisoning from any.

[Penda 3,341]

I give the odd bit of veg but the end of the day a dog is primerally a carnivore and there for be fed on meat as the main part of its diet

[The one 8,483]

I can put veg in the bowls but if they dont want them they eat round them and leave them , the old bitch dumps them on the floor out her bowl

[walshie 2,804]

I wasn't talking about huge amounts. I mean a pound of meat with a couple of spoons of veg on top.

[king 11,972]

You are spot on Walshie.

If you can mimic the wolf's diet. you will be as close to proper feeding as is possible.

I'm pretty sure they will eat seasonal berrys and fruit etc.

I had a staff bitch yrs ago that loved picking BlackBerrys.

http://rawfed.com/myths/stomachcontents.html

[Saluki246 1,053]

Wolf has a different gut then dog. Dogs been domesticated for thousands of years, so have adapted to our ways of feeding them. This is even more so with pure salukis i find.

[zx12edge 1,001]

My old dog aint that keen on veg but when the blackberry are about he picks them of the bush and seems to enjoy them no end and eats grass like a cow lol

[Aussie Whip 4,124]

A lot of dog men are more fussy what they feed their dogs than themselves,I'm one of them,though I usually skin and cook mine.

[TAXI DRIVER 549]

Veg and food scraps on plates all go in the dog bowls.Never done mine any harm and dogs appear to enjoy them. Then again we are talking about animals that would eat a dead,rotted carcas if it had the chance.

[PJCaswell 114]

Dogs are not Wolves. Dogs have evolved to eat what we eat. The clearest example of this is Wolves cannot digest starches from grains, whereas 99% of dogs have the genetic mutation that enables them to do so. This means dogs CAN eat anything we can eat with a few exceptions such as raisins

Dog food is a new invention that pretends that dogs have had a separate evolution to humans.

However longdogs are not normal dogs. If you want a fast strong robust dog, and it has a lot of greyhound in it take a bit more notice about what you feed it. This is not being fussy but recognising we ask of these working dogs something completely different to most other dogs. It took a conversation with a greyhound owner to realise this.

I genuinely think that a lot of dogs that don’t make the grade as a result of owners either running them too early or not feeding them a diet that is suitable for a growing longdogs.