Every time I eat an apple my Cavvie Alfie sits in front of me, and drools, he even seems to know when Ive gone to the fridge to get one and just sits patiently right by my feet eyeballing me.  Ive no idea where he got the idea originally that he liked them, but when weve eaten everything we can off the apple we give him the core.  He probably gets one every other day. There literally is just a tiny core left and he sits and nibbles it very carefully before eating it.  Its not ever given him the runs or anything, but is this ok for him to have?

mine loves apples chase run of into a lady garden on his walk to eat the wind fall,
plus they love satumers as well

One of mine loves apples as well and always hangs around hopefully waiting for the apple core to fall his way :-)

I knew a GSD who would eat apples by gnawing through from one side to the other and leave just the empty peel looking like a hollowed out ball.

I can not keep apples in a fruit bowl any more, nor eggs in a basket, Pointer steals them. I have found eggs in his bed all in tact. He grates his teeth on an apple. it literally takes hours for him to eat one.

All mine have 'cored' apples. Takes them a while because they like to play ball with it first but once its been bitten into its gone in seconds!

Now i could be wrong, but im sure that on a thread that was on here long ago, about things that were good or bad, im sure someone posted when i was asking,that apple pips contain cyanide, so are not good to be eaten. Apologises in advance if im wrong, but just thought i had better mention it and post this.
Marie

Might be an urban myth, but I was under the impression that apple cores contain a small amount of arsenic?? If your pup likes apple so much why not give him some chopped up pieces instead of the core?

Apple seeds do contain cyanide but I think it is only released when the seed is crushed, swallowing them whole is most likely safe. My bunch love apples too but I core them just to be on the safe side.

Ah! Apple cores bring back a nice memory...When my daughter was about 8 (over 20 yrs ago) we had two dogs and often the one core had to be shared between the two dogs.  My daughter went on a school trip and when she came home she was very excited as the wee friend sitting next to her on the bus also had an apple in her lunchbox, the wee friend allowed my daughter to have her core so she could gtake home and then our dogs got one each.....sweet, merory's are made of this. How times have changed, of perhaps I am just better off, now I have five dogs and they have whole apples to themselves.

>that apple pips contain cyanide, so are not good to be eaten.

Apple pips do indeed contain a small amount of cyanide - but it's a miniscule amount. A human would need to eat a whole cupful just of apple pips to come to any harm, so the 5 or so pips in a single applecore will do a dog no harm at all.

Ha Ha, it must be something to do with being called Alfie!! My Alfie has tonight stolen a full apple out of my sister in laws handbag!

>A human would need to eat a whole cupful just of apple pips to come to any harm,

And woman that I know of actually did die eating around that amount of pips

Alfieshmalfie,i would buy a few extra apples and give her a whole one,i bet she would luurve it :-D

Chillie, my youngest, loves apples. We've got several apple trees in the garden, guess who's been stuffing herself this autumn?!
She eats the whole apple, nothing left at all. I've never heard of pips being harmful, in that case I would have worried, since she's eaten at least four apples a day.
Anyway, they're gone now, either rotten, eaten by birds or by Chillie ;-)
And Chillie is  a very much alive nine month old holigan, so the pips can't have done her that much harm.

omg cyanide!!!  Well reading that yesterday, I gave my vet a quick ring, hes at a local LARGE vet hospital and is fantastic.  He confirmed exactly what you said, that the pips were only a problem in very large quantities and crushed, that Alfie being a CKCS being larger that Chi sized would be able to cope with a few apple pips a week and that I was being daft worrying about it.  He would be more worried if Alfie had taken a liking to eating dead rats or something (because of the risk of rat poison).

We only have little apples anyway (child sized ones) so they only have little cores and only a couple of pips.

Thanks for that, I can give him the odd apple core as a treat, he will do anything for them, so much better for him that hotdogs for training purposes!!!!!

Apple cores should be fine but I wouldn't give them to my dog unless they are organically grown. Most fruit is heavily sprayed and the chemical residue tends toremain on the peel or be stored in the seed. It could be argued that the amounts we're talking about are very small, but why take any chances?