should dogs eat olives?

LaptaMike


Joined: 07/10/2009
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Message Posted:
19/10/2010 03:03

or are they bad for them? Our Efes loves them, even straight off our trees.

Brinsley


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Message Posted:
19/10/2010 03:09

Make sure they are the fresh ones otherwise the marinated variety will leave heavy flatulence smells throughout the villa!



Richard

LaptaMike


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Message Posted:
19/10/2010 03:10

ah right, cheers richard

daisy dukes


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Message Posted:
19/10/2010 07:19

I copied this from a vet website.



There is nothing that a dog needs from eating olives, however they are not known to be harmful to a normal healthy dog.



so no worries Mike.



DD

Groucho



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Message Posted:
19/10/2010 07:38

I can second that... our dog loves olives... picks then up chews the flesh off and spits out the stone.

bridie


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Message Posted:
19/10/2010 07:48

All my dogs have loved olives over the years, and we haven't lost one yet from eating them.

blade


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Message Posted:
19/10/2010 10:50

Mike, put into a search engine ' things which are poison for dogs' you will find loads of good website giving many lists of things not to give your dog.

sienna


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Message Posted:
19/10/2010 10:58

seems Efes will eat anything ! my dog too !

timefore


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Message Posted:
19/10/2010 11:01

our dogs love them and it certainly shows - the improvement in their coats is very marked

LaptaMike


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Message Posted:
19/10/2010 11:11

thanks for all the helpful replies ;-) Nice to know Efes isn't alone with his olive addiction hehe

beeches


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Message Posted:
19/10/2010 12:04

Yesterday my four dogs ate half a kilo of olives and most of the plastic packaging as well. They were OK but I wasn't too happy!!

zerochlor


Joined: 03/04/2009
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Message Posted:
19/10/2010 12:11

http://alternative-doctor.com/blog/olives-cure-dogs/

LaptaMike


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Posts: 1679

Message Posted:
19/10/2010 12:14

lol beeches. Our efes demolished his food bowl yesterday. Going to have to get him a metal one I think.



By the way, better watch out when you take them for walkies, will be shi***g olive stones like a pellet gun ;-) Sorry for being crude.

sienna


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Posts: 1627

Message Posted:
19/10/2010 18:09

does he not spit them out my dog believe it or not loves apple cores but spits the apple pips out I have no idea how she does it !!

come_on_aylin


Joined: 14/06/2008
Posts: 908

Message Posted:
19/10/2010 19:08

Sienna,

Just as well she spits the pips out as they are highly poisonous to dogs - not to good for humans either seeing as they contain cyanogenic acids. If you eat enough, you could die.

Our dog loves most fruit and veg but draws the line at celery and I have to agree with him.

jimchris09


Joined: 13/02/2009
Posts: 547

Message Posted:
20/10/2010 12:17

Our old Tomcat used to entertain people at parties by rolling around in the bowls of olives and getting horny!