Hi,
I have apple trees and black berry bushes EVERYWHERE.
I can't fence them all in. Any novel idea how to keep my silly dog from eating the whole crop!

I tried cayenne pepper, shoo deterrent, fence some of them, other stuff from the garden store.

NOTHING, even the fence does not work. I have 100 of them (old farm)
I should teach him to bake some pies maybe.
Cutting would be hard, I need a permit from the town and so many some one will notice and cry out at the city hall

 Quote: Ariane Gauthier

Hi,
I have apple trees and black berry bushes EVERYWHERE.
I can't fence them all in. Any novel idea how to keep my silly dog from eating the whole crop!

I tried cayenne pepper, shoo deterrent, fence some of them, other stuff from the garden store.

NOTHING, even the fence does not work. I have 100 of them (old farm)
I should teach him to bake some pies maybe.
Cutting would be hard, I need a permit from the town and so many some one will notice and cry out at the city hall

Can you build a Dog Yard close to the house, and just remove the berry bushes from that area alone?

At my old house I had an very old apple tree.

The branches wee all pretty low to the ground and Lady, one of the three dogs I had at the time was always trying to climb that tree.

More often then not she would get her legs tangled up and the wife or I had to untangle her and let her down.

Same tree, different dog.

Tramp would munch on the rotten apples that fell and he wasn't allowed in the house for most of the late apple season because of terrible gas.

so it is not too dangerous except for the smell to let him pluck apples off the trees?

I can't afford to build him a fenced area at the moment that would keep him in. Dig and jump and climb proof

 Quote: Ariane Gauthier

so it is not too dangerous except for the smell to let him pluck apples off the trees?

I can't afford to build him a fenced area at the moment that would keep him in. Dig and jump and climb proof

Can you just pick OFF all the low-hanging Apples yourselves, Adriane?

I'm afraid I can't think of any way to keep your dog from eating the apples aside from somehow cutting off his access to them. It sounds like he can get to them anytime he is outside, and you cannot put up any kind of fencing to keep him away. So all I can suggest is that you try to pick up as many of the fallen and low-hanging apples as you can on a regular basis until they're gone.

As far as whether the apples will hurt him, in moderate quantities, apples are considered fine for most dogs. However, there are mixed opinions on whether the seeds could be a problem, as they do contain a cyanide-like substance. Here is just a sampling from the Internet:

http://www.petmd.com/dog/general-health/can-dogs-eat-apples

https://www.vetinfo.com/is-it-safe-for-dogs-to-eat-apples.html

https://www.drmartybecker.com/petconnection/no-apple-cores-seeds-arent-toxic-pets/

http://moderndogmagazine.com/articles/can-dogs-eat-apples/29085

Like I said, there are differing opinions out there. If it was my dog, I wouldn't worry at all about him eating a couple of apples every so often, but I would be concerned if he was gorging himself on a daily basis -- not just because of the seeds, but I could see it causing other digestive upsets.

I don't know anything about whether blackberries are okay for dogs, but I feed a variety of fruits, vegetables, and berries to my dogs, in moderation, with no issues.

 Quote: Cheri Grissom

I'm afraid I can't think of any way to keep your dog from eating the apples aside from somehow cutting off his access to them. It sounds like he can get to them anytime he is outside, and you cannot put up any kind of fencing to keep him away. So all I can suggest is that you try to pick up as many of the fallen and low-hanging apples as you can on a regular basis until they're gone.

As far as whether the apples will hurt him, in moderate quantities, apples are considered fine for most dogs. However, there are mixed opinions on whether the seeds could be a problem, as they do contain a cyanide-like substance. Here is just a sampling from the Internet:

http://www.petmd.com/dog/general-health/can-dogs-eat-apples

https://www.vetinfo.com/is-it-safe-for-dogs-to-eat-apples.html

https://www.drmartybecker.com/petconnection/no-apple-cores-seeds-arent-toxic-pets/

http://moderndogmagazine.com/articles/can-dogs-eat-apples/29085

Like I said, there are differing opinions out there. If it was my dog, I wouldn't worry at all about him eating a couple of apples every so often, but I would be concerned if he was gorging himself on a daily basis -- not just because of the seeds, but I could see it causing other digestive upsets.

I don't know anything about whether blackberries are okay for dogs, but I feed a variety of fruits, vegetables, and berries to my dogs, in moderation, with no issues.

I agree with all of Cheri's post, and I too have fed all the berries to my dogs in moderation, sometimes frozen for a summer treat.

No grapes, of course, as well as none of the other "no" produce items on this list:
http://www.akc.org/content/health/articles/fruits-vegetables-dogs-can-and-cant-eat/

I wouldn't let my dogs pig out on apples, either. I had a similar problem with a plum tree in the yard, except that the results were purple diarrhea and swallowed pits ... and I had to go out early every day and pick up the fallen fruit as well as grab the low-hanging ones. It was easier than building a tall fence around the tree.

Oddly, it was only one of my dogs who loved those plums. The others paid zero attention to them. But Leo would rush over and try to gulp a few down before I saw, and removing them before I let him out was what worked. (He was very obviously disappointed when he'd trot over to the tree and find no fruit.)

Hi, Ariane. I knew three of the links Connie and Cheri mentioned above. absolutely worth reading. I also have an LB book about raw food diet. They say that a dog needs some fruits and veggies though primarily they need proteines, animal proteins. Some fruits and Veggies are definitally are excluded, I'll not name them as it is everything well described in those links.

My dogs love apples, so I give them now and then a bit. Though I remove the seeds, just to be on the safe side. I think they will not harm the dog if once it happens that he catches some. But in greater quantiities they might really cause problems.

But as your dog seems to devour "tons" of apples I'd absolutely do something against it.

In your situation, if fencing is not possible, (even not perhaps at least a certain area?), I also can't see any other solution than picking off the for the dog accessible apples yourself, as Candi, Cheri and Connie already recommended. Perhaps you've got somebody who might help you?