Surprising high value treat!

[Granca]

The dogs had been playing in the garden with my son yesterday when I got home and Tuppence was still holding her favourite ball. She had refused to drop it in exchange for a treat when she came indoors and was trotting around with her gleeful I’m not giving this up for anyone or anything expression.

After a while I started preparing supper and was cutting up carrots when I felt a heavy ball being dropped on my foot... carrot ends and peelings are higher value than I thought!

 

[Lab_adore]

Too cute Tuppence! Maxx loves carrots too

 

[Selina27]

Oh yes, Cassie would do that, she really adores carrot. It stems I believe from being given frozen carrots to help her gums when teething as a puppy.
I've never used them as rewards when training though, maybe I should try them!

 

[snowbunny]

LOL, it always makes me laugh when people talk about using veggies as training treats. That would not cut it for Shadow, not one bit. All the pups had frozen carrots when they were teething, but Shadow is not interested now. At best, if I offer him the end of a carrot, he'll give it a thoughtful chew then spit it out.

Cooked veggies in his meals are another matter, though. He's more than happy to scoff them up

 

[Emily]

Ella LOVES carrot! When I'm cutting up veggies and give her a chunk, she always has this tortured expression as she weighs up carrying the carrot back to her bed to eat, against the possibility of hanging around for more carrot.

 

[Loraseal]

HAHA Broccoli, carrots and cucumber are high value treats for us too! I also love the cute way Hunter eats his raw veggies as it takes slightly longer than cooked veggies!

 

[Cath]

 

[Selina27]

Gosh I don't think I've known a dog eat cucumber @Loraseal , I'll have to see if Cassie likes it!

Yes I suppose they don't necessarily get a taste for what they eat in puppyhood. Cassie ate fag ends , horse poo and apples as a puppy. Of these only apples have persisted, perhaps it's the sugar content.

 

[Anne123]

HAHA Broccoli, carrots and cucumber are high value treats for us too! I also love the cute way Hunter eats his raw veggies as it takes slightly longer than cooked veggies!

Finn agrees that all raw veggies are high value treats! He eats about anything....sweet potatoes, carrots, cucumber, broccoli, even lemon.....

 

[JES72]

Homer won't settle until he'd had his carrot after dinner. His dog walker says its his after dinner cigar!

 

[Stacia]

Rourke isn't a fussy eater and usually will relish anything, but he absolutely dislikes carrots and bananas, spits them out!

 

[Ashley]

Quinn spits out raw carrot now! She loves cucumber and red peppers but never ever more than her ball!!

 

[Naya]

Harley loves carrots too.......she always hangs around when I’m cooking to see what she can have!

 

[MellowYellow]

Mine both love raw carrot. But Merlin hates raw courgette, brocolli and bananas, and is not even keen on apples. Poppy eats ANYTHING.

 

[M.F.]

His dog walker says its his after dinner cigar!

LOL

Snowie used to get an “after dinner breath carrot”. Like an after dinner breath mint. Especially good after a meal of green dirty tripe.

But he’s now gone off his after dinner raw carrot. Leaves it on his bed. Eats other raw veg, and small bits of raw carrot if he's begging while I eat a salad (he’ll even eat lettuce if it comes from my plate). But no cigar anymore!

 

[Candy]

Joy loves raw carrot, raw peppers, sprouts and cucumber. If she doesn't like something (e.g. raw parsnip) she's too polite to spit it out infront of me and very sweetly takes it into the hallway where she'll leave it.

 

[kateincornwall]

Reuben loves absolutely everything , raw or cooked ! Little monkey nicked a little gem lettuce out of the fridge and ate it ! x

 

[Granca]

Harley loves carrots too.......she always hangs around when I’m cooking to see what she can have!

Both of mine appear when I’m cooking too, particularly if I’m cutting up fruit or veg, although Wispa isn’t keen on parsnip. Tuppence must have asbestos lining: she grabbed a piece of toast which pinged right out of the toaster a couple of days ago and swallowed it quickly before I could grab it.

 

[Shaz82]

Out of a dish full of veg, it's the carrots that are left at the bottom, Maisy just doesn't like them.

 

[Bruer]

Nope not a veg lover, he will chew then spit them out he does like tomatoes though!