At this moment Sophie is playing around with an apple.  Is this safe and ok

CarolW

Be careful about the pips but other than that she should be fine.  Mine love apples :d

I've never met a dog yet who doesn't like apples. But just watch out for overlarge pieces going down too quickly.

Be very careful Carol. 
I had a friend with a Terv that was playing with an apple and she nearly lost her because the whole apple got stuck in her throat and it almost choked her to death.  It was only when the bitch collapsed and the muscles in her throat went slack that she was able to get it out and bring the bitch round.

If I were you I'd cut it up for her.
Debs

Mine love apples too, but I always cut them up for them first :)

Our boy pinches them at any opportunity, luckily I've caught him each time as if he had eaten the whole thing there would have been 'dire' consequences!

Mine eat apples regularly and have suffered no problems consuming the pips or core, neither have my horses or my daughter or myself.

~There are minute quantities of cyanide in apple pips but for them to be a problem your dog would have to consume several kilos of the pips.

Of course dogs can choke on anything, balls, apples, commercial dog food, bones just a many people die each year from choking in grapes, nuts etc...............

I never knew that about the apple pips I have fed Blade the whole of an apple whenever he gets one, but he has never had any consequences infact on the odd occasion i have also eaten pips.... So hopefully your theory is right Tohme..

I thought the pips contained arsenic   Whatever, if there was any danger to health I'm sure the government would have banned apples by now :rolleyes:

I give them to my dog whole and she nibbles with her front teeth and then chews the apple into bits

it isn't advisable to let dogs eat too many apple pips - as its already been said, they are poisonious to dogs - unsure of quantity needed but personally I would be very careful.

Cut the apple up, then you can remove pips - much safer than assuming one or two won't hurt them.

Yes, apple pips contain toxin - but in tiny, tiny quantities. ;) If you ate a cupful of apple pips, you'd be unwell - but that would be hundreds and hundreds of pips. The six or seven in an single apple will do no harm at all, and probably contain less arsenic than the mineral water in certain areas of the country. :)

The 'DIRE' consequences I spoke of were that a small (and young) dog would almost certainly have an upset tummy, should he eat a whole apple.
Surely nobody is thinking an apple is going to be poisonous.

>Surely nobody is thinking an apple is going to be poisonous

Tell *that* to Snow White :D :P

:D :D But it turned out all right in the end.  Perhaps you should try one ;)

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ROFLOL @ Isabel. The vision I had of you skipping around singing.  Very sprightly for a 98 yr old too ;)

Keep eating the apples, kid, and you could last as long ;)

>Tell *that* to Snow White

True. So always beware of nice 98 year old laydees bearing fruit bowls. ;)

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I appreciate what you are saying about the quantity need for it to affect a dog BUT many many professionals do advise against letting your dog eat ANY apple pips.

I certainly wouldn't want to be the one guessing at how many pips it is safe for my dog to eat. I'm not saying I wouldn't feed apple to my dog, just that I would cut it up to minimise the risk associated with the pips.

Obviously, we're all different and with the amount of foods that are said to be potentially lethal to our dogs, we all need to trust our own judgement.
I was gobsmacked to here that tea is bad for dogs - All of my dogs have enjoyed cups of tea quite safely in the past. I also read on one website that brocolli was bad for dogs - yet many many people (including myself) have given their dogs brocoli quite safely.

As for snow white - that couldnt possibly be me, I'm more like the ugly sister in cinderella

>I certainly wouldn't want to be the one guessing at how many pips it is safe for my dog to eat.

Remember, the pips are designed to pass safely through the long digestive tract of herbivores to be deposited (with a handy amount of fertiliser!) far from the parent tree - they don't get digested unless they're crushed, and escape even the grinding teeth of a herbivore. Dog's don't grind their food, they cut and swallow, so the 6 or 7 pips in an apple will be completely unaffected. If you fed a few dozen apples with that larger quantity of pips, crushed and pulped, there might be enough toxin to harm your dog - but the laxative effect of so much fruit would mean it was out the other end before there was time for it to be absorbed! ;) :D :D

These toxins presumably have the same potential danger to humans as to dogs yet we don't get warnings about them so I don't really understand the worry on this thread

Arsenic's good for the complexion isn't it? :)

As Dr. Crippen said to his good lady wife...

'Moderation in everything'. :) The levels of arsenic in the tap water in many places in Devon is quite high. Complexions tend to be good ...

Exactly. :) There's more danger in getting a pip stuck between your teeth and causing pain than there is from eating the darned thing! :D

Err.... I don't think you are going to like the mirror's answer ....! :P :D

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Sorry to go off on a tangent here but I've spent many years specialising in "wicked" am dram panto parts. And I still remember the year when, playing Snow White's WS, I'd easily delivered pages and pages-worth of complicated (and mainly irrelevant!) dialogue before suddenly having a completely blank moment. All went very quiet on stage and after staring, gormlessly, for what seemed like a lifetime at the bloke playing the Mirror, he finally said "How about asking me whether you are still the fairest in the land?" D'oh!

>How about asking me whether you are still the fairest in the land?" D'oh

There there Roz, delivering those lines repetitively was a traumatic experience that resulted in you burying them in your subconscious.  Subconsciously you knew the answer and was in denial :P :D

That'll be it! Such an unreliable animal is the subconscious, innit?
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This is what I like about this forum....such wit all around
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