 Berry Picking Dogs
#244640 - 06/29/2009 06:23 AM |
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Took the critters with me to berry pick.
I was picking right along and realized Lucy and Hambone were still next to me...NOT a usual thing. Hambone explores and Lucy is at the end of her 20ft lead.
I looked down and there she was...nibbling away at the raspberries! I looked farther away, and there was Hambone with HIS face in the berries and picking the berries and eating them.
Now, I have to admit I have seen my dogs over the years eat just about everything, but I have never seen a domestic dog eat a berry off a bush.
Any one else have a berry picking dog?
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#244642 - 06/29/2009 07:31 AM |
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My 2 Rotties and my Riesenschnauzer will pick the blackberries off the bush...but somehow they only pick the ripe ones!
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#244644 - 06/29/2009 07:39 AM |
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LOVE IT!
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#244647 - 06/29/2009 08:22 AM |
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My first dog would pick gooseberries off the bush at my dad's work while I did yardwork. When she got all the ones she could reach, she would come get me to pick the higher ones for her LOL.
I have a foster who would pick and eat the grapes off my grapevines requiring me to fence off all my grapevines (since grapes are poisonous to dogs). This same dog doesn't like bananas, but I've never had a dog refuse a berry.
When the mulberries are in season (I have a small tree in my yard) the dogs go and find them in the grass. I can also pick them from the tree and the dogs line up to get them, as though they were treats. They also eat the pears that fell out of the pear tree (thanks mainly to the wasteful squirrels who take one bite then discard).
I actually caught my youngest eating pears off the ground the other day, they are only about the size of a quarter right now! lol! I wondered what the heck he was eating!
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#244648 - 06/29/2009 08:27 AM |
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This is fabulous! I never knew! (OH! But, gooseberries? I happen to love gooseberries! THAT is a plant neither of them touch. They do hunker down under the mulberry trees though.)
Oh, and no one sprays any chemicals on our farm. Everything plant grown is on its own-- live or die.
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#244651 - 06/29/2009 09:06 AM |
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Strawberries. Quinn loves strawberries.
We have a million growers around here and I love to use their flat dirt access roads for our off lead road work, one side of a field is exactly 1/4 mile. One day while I was stopping to get a drink and looked up to find Quinn's nose in the bushes. I thought he was sniffing something yummy when he suddenly looked up at me and had all of his brown markings stained red!
He learned to walk down the raised beds and pull them right off the bush. He has never had a gut problem afterwards either... I always worried about that...
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#244674 - 06/29/2009 11:38 AM |
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I do worry about Lucy getting into grapes. Altho she isn't allowed to run loose (her nose would take her to China...no, wait, she doesn't like her feet to get wet...she would end up in Canada), and is on a long lead, there are grapes in the house and I am afraid she would pounce on one if I dropped it.
SO...our dogs eat raspberries, black berries, gooseberries, mulberries, and strawberries and pears! Imagine that.
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#244688 - 06/29/2009 03:26 PM |
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I do worry about Lucy getting into grapes.
We took Oscar blueberry picking one summer and it took him no time to figure out that he could both eat them off the bush AND hoover up all the drops - but after that day he became overly interested in ANY berries we'd pass growing on ornamental bushes in people's yards, or along the sidewalk... some of these I'm sure would have made him ill. We've since discouraged him from eating berries in general and don't take him picking with us. He still LOVES berries, but I'd rather hand pick and feed them to him, just to be safe.
Some dogs are smarter about these things than others - Oscar will eat pretty much anything that has any semblance of food value... 
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#244696 - 06/29/2009 04:02 PM |
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I do worry about Lucy getting into grapes.
We took Oscar blueberry picking one summer and it took him no time to figure out that he could both eat them off the bush AND hoover up all the drops - but after that day he became overly interested in ANY berries we'd pass growing on ornamental bushes in people's yards, or along the sidewalk... some of these I'm sure would have made him ill. We've since discouraged him from eating berries in general and don't take him picking with us. He still LOVES berries, but I'd rather hand pick and feed them to him, just to be safe.
I decided to leave the critters at home tonight when I pick. That is a good idea and one I need to utilize. If I am picking, I can't see what she is eating...Hambone knows what he can eat. Oh,and, no grapes in my house. Lucy is so hungry all the time (unless I can feed her 3 times a day), that she would ignore the leave it command.
Blueberries? I think I need to plant some blueberries on the property...I love em!
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#245124 - 07/02/2009 09:59 AM |
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My dogs love berries, but too much of a good thing made them terribly sick. Our neighbor has a Bosenberry tree, and the berries fall in our yard and the dogs love to feast on them. This is the first year we've had this problem.
Not a good thing either. My 7 month old puppy was rushed to the vet on Monday. He was lethargic, had the runs and his gums were grey, not good. My 13 year old had similar symptoms, but gum color was good. Its' been a messy couple of days, but they are feeling much better.
In the meantime, we cut off the overhanging branches and cleaned up all the berries in our yard.
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