Is your dog a vegetarian?

All dogs love veg, especially stalks I find. I'm sure I once read it's to do with wolves eating stomach contents of their prey....??
 
Had a springer that would pull a radish out the ground and consume, got a picture somewhere. Old lurcher would sook raspberries off when they were just perfect too
Used to have a working Lakeland that go brambling every year!
 
Wolves have been found to consume up to 70% of blue berries in summer months, hardly surprises me that dogs love to much on random sweet berries tbh!
 
All dogs love veg, especially stalks I find. I'm sure I once read it's to do with wolves eating stomach contents of their prey....??
My Labrador absolutely loves rumen contents, she would scoff the lot if I let her, she'll eat that before she eats a kidney as her treat after a stalk. Of course, being a Lab, she prefers to eat both
Just like Slider's dog with brussel sprouts, sometimes her farts after eating gut contents have to be experienced to be believed - she can clear a room
However, she's never sick afterwards and suffers no runny guts either, eating rumen contents seems to do her good so I'll put up with the occasional gas attack
 
Lab and the labx gwp both learn when the plums and greengages are out, make a bee line round to the trees at every opportunity. Scoff the fallen stuff but also stand up to nip stuff off, especially the lab x, she's quite happy on two legs.
 
My two teckles love vegetables with their main meal, but they have a reputation for nicking fruit and vegetables out of the garden blackberries and courgettes are their favourite but apples and pears are the finest bounty they crave
 
Our 2 Jack/Mancs grab any veg while it’s still airborne and eat it.
The Border throws whatever veg it’s given about the room then rolls on it and eventually eats it.
The Border drank some ink once, but she’s all write now.
Ken.
 
Our hound thought all her Christmases had come at once when the farmer bought a load of wonkey carrots to feed the sheep. They were put in a long row across the field and she started at one end.

At Blackberry time you can loose her in the brambles - she picks them herself. Ditto apples, pears, raspberries, strawberries, blueberries and blaeberries. Not keen on sloes though. And she grazes on grass.

All carnivores do need vitamins and nutrients from plants. Its why the eat the stomach contents of grazing and browsing animals first.
 
Although they are predominantly carnivores, wolves and the likes of foxes will eat berries, roots and, frankly anything that'll get them by in times of want. As for my dogs over the years, mostly Labradors, like humans, they can have some likes and dislikes. One loves to munch into an apple or pear or similar fruits. Another wouldn't eat any crisps whatsoever, but liked prawn crackers.

A Dalmatian that lived in a neighbours house used to be destructive if left on it's own in the house. It was a little crazy (aren't they all). Probably separation anxiety I guess. So they would put it in the garage when they went out. Come Christmas time, however, they'd put the frozen turkey on a worktop in the garage. When they went out for a spot of Christmas retail therapy, the dog scoffed the whole, still frozen turkey. It died, of course. Anyway, a bit off topic..
 
Two labs and a Springer all love potatoes to the extent that they keep pinching them out of the Farmers field they have been left because of all the rain we have had and the field is now spring barley.
 
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