Jamie Craig Webboard User Reg: 09-01-2009
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So I recently discovered that my dog does NOT dislike carrots as I previously thought (I used to sneak my childhood dog carrots and she loved him...I tried it with my guy and he just played with them). He will use them as chew toys, nibbling on them for hours before consuming them.
So I'm wondering....would this be a good crate toy? How are carrots on digestion (I imagine to many would dye is poop orange...but other than that), how are they nutritionally? He takes 3x longer to nibble on carrots than he does to clean a rec bone (and there isn't the side effect of bits of meat outside his crate that get rubbed into my carpet) so I was hoping this could be an option for his crate time?
Tracy Collins Webboard User Reg: 10-09-2008
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He's not going to get much if any nutrition from a raw carrot (dogs cannot digest cellulose). It'll come out pretty much the way it went in.
But I don't think an occasional carrot is going to do him any harm. It'll just be added fiber. But you'll be able to tell. If it seems to cause poop issues, decrease carrot. You might even try freezing the carrot. That might slow him down and would actually increase the nutritional value of the carrot by breaking the cell walls.
I'm assuming you're totally confident that he's chewing these, and there's no danger of swallowing a big hunk of carrot? That could be a choking hazard. I've never really trusted pups with anything other than a kong in the crate--something that I was confident could not be consumed. But that's just me. I've given my dogs plenty of frozen carrots while I was there to watch them, however.
Anne Jones Webboard User Reg: 04-29-2004
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I freeze whole raw pealed carrots & give them to teething pups. I have never given whole raw carrots to an older dog. Just steamed or grated in their raw food. Personally, I'm not sure that I would be comfortable with doing that. But that's just me.
Maybe someone else has experience with doing that with an older dog.
Jamie Craig Webboard User Reg: 09-01-2009
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unfortunately I can't do kongs...he rips them into rubber chunks in a matter seconds (and I've tried the large black ones)...I try to avoid actual toys for this reason, sticking to edible things, since the only thing he hasn't destroyed his is this thing -> http://leerburg.com/1119.htm but unfortunately I wasn't paying attention to him while the second time I was loading it...he was watching me...so the moment I put it down he worked out that it unscrews.....so now he'll unscrew it and lick the insides out immediately....I hate smart dogs -_-
He does chew them up into little pieces before swallowing them and has never been a "gulp the treats down" type of dog. I will give a try freezing them though, he loves icecubes...maybe starting with half a carrot and seeing how he does.
I have a lab who can destroy almost any toy within about ten minutes. However, I've found one brand of products that he cannot destroy -- they are made by West Paw Designs and are made of a material called Zogoflex. They really work! (And they back their products with a guarantee if your dog can destroy one.) They have a variety of toy shapes to choose from. We eventually got all of them for variety, and all of them are still intact.
Jamie Craig Webboard User Reg: 09-01-2009
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Zogoflex make the hurly, bumi, and hux toys right? We tried those (and got our money back....) and he chewed right through them...I swear he's hiding the jaws of a hyena in a cute little ACD head....I'm slowly running out of options...it's odd though, since he's not an aggressive chewer with his bones at all.
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