These are the sea variety BTW :D :D

My dogs eat anything (well, they're not very keen on mushrooms, but they are raw fed and everything we give them is devoured in seconds). At the weekend we treated ourselves to crab for lunch. afterwards, there was a bit left in the shells so we scraped it out and gave it to the dogs. Tara ate hers very reluctantly after spitting it out a few times, but Bramble point blank refused it :D :D (Normally I'd have had him straight down to the vets :D :D :D ).

Has anyone else fed their dogs crab and did they get the same reaction ???? :) :) :)

Daisy

Well, as a fishermans daughter briught up eating all things 'seagrown', I do know that some of the innards are poisonous to us!
ladies fingers and such like, so hopefully the dogs knew what was good and what wasn't. Also some seafood is very bad cholestrol wise.

Karen ;-)

Don't worry, Karen :) OH and I have been brought up to dress crabs from a very young age so we know the bad bits :D :D These were already dressed (the shop didn't have any undressed :( - cost a fortune dressed :D ) :) :) Dogs have fish at least once a week and they've had prawns before. Certainly won't be wasting any crab on them next time :D :D :D

Daisy

My two are funny with fish and don't like eating heads etc. they do love though tinned pilchards so put it down to liking convenience food ;) :D

They have eaten the odd prawn or two but must admit would rather any seafood go in my tummy than theirs :D

I have fed crab a few times (the joy of hailing from a fishing village means we often get donations of all sorts).  Shay scoffed the lot (predictable outcome) whilst Lola behaved like we were trying to poison her as she does with pretty much anything 'new' :rolleyes:

Quite jealous really, I love almost all seafood, though when I was a child I objected strongly to it. You had to have lived it to know the smell etc of having the childhood I had. My dad was a traditional chap with willow pots for crabs and lobsters and 'trots' and 'trawls' for fish mainly to bait pots. But the smell........bleugh...

Karen ;-)

We often have dressed crab at the weekend.  My BC who is very fussy, won't even eat crisps or chocolate, drools at the thought of licking out the shell, she loves it.  It is the only thing she scrounges at the table for. 

Haven't tried crab on mine yet, but Jasper doesn't like prawns or mussels and he isn't that fond of liver or kidney unless it is disguised, he thinks it is something to be tossed in the air :rolleyes:  completely different to Henry who loves offal :D

when i lived on the beach (yes "on" not "near") my lot used to pick up dead and live crabs and crunch the whole lot, shells and all! Oddly though if we catch a beautiful crab to eat for ourselves they dont like the red edible variety....just peelers and green shore crabs

Daisy & Karen, I'm a fisherman's daughter, also raised on crab/lobster fish etc etc.  Having moved back very recently to the east yorks coast, I have been getting our 'paws' on dressed crab for me and OH.   My 2 OES flatly refused to eat the tinned stuff imported from Thailand when we tried that, by my god, do they scoff the real stuff from Yorks!  They even scavange for emtpy crab shells when on the beach and woe betide anyone who tries to prize it out of their chops.  Give it to them in a butty and they chuck the bread away though. Haven't tried them on lobster yet, think they'd have to wrestle me to the ground first.

lol nelson, I never thought when a child that I would go for anything from the sea, but now eat it at every opportunity. A local favourite when young was conger soup, it is now something I'd be glad to have, though then, I would have gone hungry rather than have it! Lobster was great, as was a large spiny one known as a Crayfish, crab was okay, but fish no....

KAren :-D

My son was a very fussy eater as a child - wouldn't eat sweets (apart from chocolate), crisps, cheese, butter, anything with a sauce, cake (apart from chocolate) :rolleyes: But he would eat anything out of the sea :D Went he visited his grandmother on the IOW, nothing excited him more than being given a bucket so that he could go and pick his own winkles, which I had to cook, so that he could sit with a pin and eat them :D :D :D

Daisy

Ooh yum....
I'd go for that too.
Karen

Hi Daisy :)

My 2 are fed raw and will reluctantly eat raw fish like whole sprats, sardines etc, but it soon makes a re-appearance :rolleyes: They much prefer tin sardines in tomato sauce!

They also 'faffed' around with crab that we cooked, brown meat was....hmmm...OK, but white meat....YUK :rolleyes:

My bitch, when given a piece of Lobster claw, tossed it around in the air and then played Football with it

But when on the beach, they try to eat dead crabs????