Meg loves raw potato. She was pestering me for some when she was a young pup, and in the end I threw one for her like a ball - sort of "you won't like it, you daft mutt. But if you won't believe me, then try it for yourself!" And she did .

I'm not very keen on giving her any, because I'm sure I heard somewhere that it wasn't that good for them - not dangerous or anything, just a bit hard to digest.

So we have sort of compromised by me giving her some of the peelings when I am preparing them - she will hear/smell/somehow suss out that I am doing it, and come from wherever in the house she is to stand beside me and wait for them.

I think it is the crunch she likes, because she also loves other raw vegetables (carrots, cucumber, white cabbage, and she would KILL for red pepper), but I don't mind her having them. It is just that I thought raw potato was hard for them to digest.

Anybody any idea?

NO idea the dogs dont eat them and dont like them, all they want is the meat

Never Heard of it though


Heather

One of my dogs use to love eating raw potato, soon stopped it when I read this

These contain solanine glycosides which can cause vomiting, abdominal pain, bloody diarrhoea, nervous system stimulation, depression, trembling, paralysis & cardiac arrest in dogs

Oooh blinking heck.....I had heard that it scours the stomach

Crikey!

I never noticed any of those problems, but then she only got a few bits of peel. But believe me, that's the last she will ever have!!!!

I had just some vague idea that it was a bit indigestible, but as no other dog I have ever known had ever wanted any, I hadn't paid any particular attention.

Thank you so much (karma clicked) for telling me, Annestaff.

Thats ok Violette If you google "foods you shouldn't feed a dog" you might be surprised as whats on the list.

annestaff wrote:Thats ok Violette If you google "foods you shouldn't feed a dog" you might be surprised as whats on the list.

I'll try that and see - tho' I'm a bit scared about what I might find!

I should have thought of that before, but I'm still new to computers and internet (apart from word-processing and strictly work-related stuff).

Got some advice on another forum, where they said pretty well the same thing as you, but commented that it was green potatoes that were the worst culprit - and I have certainly never let her have any of those. I knew they could poison humans in certain conditions, and didn't take any risks with her.