Who all has .......

[meadowyck]

dogs who just love sneaking and eating tomatoes from your garden?

In the past I've had to worry more about my collies claiming tomatoes than any wildlive in the area.

So I was wondering if anyone else has this issue.

[Worth1]

I dont let Boo Boo out on his own but he is horrible with bread.

I can have a T Bone steak on the counter and he wont even look at it.
You go to the store and buy a loaf of bread you better watch out.
He will sneak into the kitchen and have it gone in the blink of an eye.

One time last month I was in the bedroom reading and forgot the bread was out.
He went to the kitchen stole the bread and took it to the bedroom (His favorite crime site for such things).
One thing he forgot, I was in the bedroom.
I heard a strange sound and looked down.
He was ripping the wrapper apart to get to the bread.
I said "Boo Boo".
He looked up at me.
I looked down at him.
I said, "Your busted boy, you have been caught".
His ears dropped.
His tail dropped.
He dropped the bread.
He slunk off the the living room.

I love Boo Boo.

Worth

[kurt]

I got two ridgebacks,one doberman,one rottweiler that get fat every year from the avacados that drop from the trees.

[Zana]

My mother's Westie, Biddy, used to help herself to the cherry tomatoes...especially the ones on the patio sized plants (dwarfs).

My parent's had 2 chocolate labs that would work their way through close to half a bushel of paste tomatoes if you weren't looking. Mum would pick up enough for making sauce and leave the bushel baskets on the tile hall floor, while working on the sauce in the kitchen. If you didn't check up on the dogs, they'd help themselves until they were sick, and then go back for more! And don't even get me started on cleaning up after their tail ends. We'd only let them out in the fenced in yard for the next few days because they could've s--t through the eye of a needle at 40 paces. LOL

Then again, anything on the counters was pretty much fair game to the labs....meat, bread, pies, fruit (especially peaches and nectarines)...oh yeah...and even a whole cooked turkey....and about 20 lbs of chocolate my mother picked up in a layover in Amsterdam's Schiphol airport's chocolate boutique. Sighhhhhhh.....the amazing thing is that neither dog got sick from all that chocolate. They were truly lucky...but perhaps the fact that they were both huge labs....110-120lb and fairly lean at that, saved them.

Zana

[ddsack]

Never had any trouble with them stealing tomatoes, but one dog would help herself to ears of sweet corn, she would also dig herself a summer sleeping wallow there, in the shade of the tall corn stalks. She would keep her bed spot a secret and I would only find it in the fall when the stalks came down. The other dog was fond of Sugar Snap pea pods -- luckily she was the short one and could only reach a few of the lower pods.

[TightenUp]

Originally Posted by kurt

I got two ridgebacks,one doberman,one rottweiler that get fat every year from the avacados that drop from the trees.

my post is a quote

http://pets.webmd.com/dogs/ss/slides...ould-never-eat
"Avocado

No matter how good you think the guacamole is, you shouldn't give it to your dog. Avocados contain a substance called persin. It's harmless for humans who aren't allergic. But large amounts might be toxic to dogs. If you happen to be growing avocados at home, keep your dog away from the plants. Persin is in the leaves, seed, and bark, as well as in the fruit."

[Longlake]

Tomatoes, raspberries, apples...anything within reach is fair game! This year our 100lb mutt got his own Tommy Toes plant, which he LOVED. Finally he could lay claim to the ripe fruit without a scolding

[greentiger87]

On the dogs/avocados - Supposedly it's only the pit and skin that actually have the toxin, though it can leach from the pit into the fruit with time. But there are many dog foods made with avocado (in AvoDerm it's the star ingredient), as the fat is reportedly good for skin/coat. In dogs, the toxin is a gastrointestinal irritant in susceptible individuals, but the majority of dogs have no problem. So if your dog has been eating avocado flesh for a long time without any problems, it's probably nothing to worry about. I've heard of so many people with similar stories about their dogs beating them to the avocados.

For the record, I don't give my dog avocados or guacamole (more because of the onions). But I'm probably just paranoid. And he gets lots of other goodies, like the coconut shells he's cleaning out for me. Hilarious to watch him scrape every last bit of coconut meat.

He seems to leave the tomatoes alone, but he's glad to pick off huge bell peppers that I've been too lazy to harvest. Plucks them right off the bush and gnaws till he's satisfied...then leaves the remnants for me to find. He deserves his share though, as I never have problems with squirrels, cats, or raccoons, and rare problems with birds, thanks to his presence.

[Texas Blues]

My dawg missylou doesn't really care about fruits or veggies.

She's much more into peanut butter, cheese, squirrels, and cats.

She hasn't actually tasted squirrel or cat but she sure wants to sample them.

Hard!

[koshki]

I have three cats..one eats paper, another eats plastic bags, and the third chews on my orchids (grrr). We don't let them out in the yard unsupervised, so I haven't lost any veggies to them!

[kurt]

greentiger87 you hit the nail on the head.All that is left is a hollowed out sheel with the pit.They have a knack for the ripe ones only.The only problem I have is saplings all over the property and mutts with green noses and muzzles,they have a tendency to bury thier faces into the fruit and knaw out the flesh.

[meadowyck]

Oh I'm so glad to see I'm not alone. My beloved Acacia (she was the foundation to my kennel and has crossed the rainbow bridge, ) loved to eat butter and pop the bubble wrap that came in packages. Don't ask me how she knew but she did and would wait till I opened the package and I would then give it to her and give her 5 minutes to pop, then I would take it away from her. I would be watching over her while she did the popping and it was the funniest thing. Now I wish I had tapped it and sent it in to Funniest home video's as I'm sure we would have won.

Well heres to all our four legged companions who keep us stiches with their behaviors.

[halleone]

My two Shelties love to garden with me, and early in the season they are polite and wait for me to give them peas, which are the first of "their" crops. They soon resort to picking their own if I'm not watching. Then they progress to picking them even when I am watching. Shameless critters! And this goes on to the snap beans and next to the tomatoes. It's really comical to catch them with a big Romano bean sticking out of their mouths and them trying to act totally innocent. When it comes to the tomatoes, it is a bigger issue, because they can get a couple of them in short order, and stand there with tomato seeds and pulp stuck in their ruffs, and still try to look like they don't have a clue what I am talking about, this snitching stuff. Fortunately, they haven't YET started eating peppers off the plant, and I only grow sweet peppers and Anaheims. Tony was caught pulling leeks out of the winter garden, and this spring I poked store-bought carrots in the ground as a wire-worm trap - he pulled them out when he could get away with it, running behind the shed so I wouldn't see him.

When the peaches and plums start to fall, I really have to be on my toes, as I don't want them to swallow the pits.

I wouldn't be without them.

[meadowyck]

Halleone you post on another topic about them brought up this as my collies love the garden as well. Who is your avatar of? I'm down to two collies Gracie (my avatar) and Saul a blue merle half brother.

[Fat Charlie]

My raised beds are just inside the invisible fence. Critters don't want to come too close, and neither does the Lab!

Now that I've got a bunch of containers going and buckets on hand for lots more, I'm looking at having a container garden in front. We'll see how that goes.