Is it safe to put my puppy kong in the microwave with some cheddar cheese and kibble and give it to him the next day when cooled? (think i read this but can't remeber where - maybe I just imagined it!).  Thanks.

VEGGIE KONG OMELETTE: 1 egg · your choice of shredded cheese · any vegetables that your pet may like · appropriate Kong Toy Scramble egg and fold in vegetables. Put into Kong toy. Sprinkle some cheese over the top and microwave for about 20 seconds. Cool thoroughly before giving to dog.

Many thanks, tohme.  Please can you answer another of my questions, my 17 week old puppy loves raw carrots and raw GREEN BEANS is it OK to give him half a carrot twice a week and 4/5 green beans also twice a week as a treat???  Thanks.

Puppies enjoy chewing carrots a bit like bones, and beans are fine. You could give both every day if you wanted.  Just a warning, because dogs cannot digest vegetables unless they are pulped it will come out like it went in :D  Also too many veg can give them the squits :(

really the vet told me all veg and fruit except orange/lemon and grapefruite.lime were ok to give her as she loves fruit and veg she seems to digest them ok , is it not ok to feed it then if its hard to digest?

Hi LL, Did you ask the vet why no orange or lemon? Mine have all loved them and been perfectly well, but then they are a breed that needs vitamin C because, unlike most breeds, they can't make their own.

Vitamin C isn't a vitamin that can be overdosed on because it is water soluble, and any surplus is simply excreted in urine.

Mine can sit & let me peel oranges or tangerines for them all day, they just love them! We got some pomeganates off the tree for the first time last yr you should have seen their faces when the little pips exploded in their mouths, very funny :D
Very interesting about dalmations & vitC J/G, I didn`t know they couldn`t make it themselves.

Chrisitine, Spain.

last week when house hunting in spain we stayed at a couples villa who had a staffie, they fed it oranges straight off the tree the dog loves them :) they said its been eating them for a while and it hasn't made it ill, do you think its ok for them to do this?

I've certainly never known a dog to become ill from eating citrus fruit, which is why I'm interested as to why LL's vet said they shouldn't have it.

It must be wonderful to pick your own oranges fresh from the tree! I grew a pomegranate from a pip a few years ago - about what age do they start to flower, Christine?

Hi J/G, here the pomegranite tree flower very young, maybe about 2yrs or so,they grow more or less wild :) The one we have is in the wrong place, right in the middle of the roses & we cut it down a few yrs back but it just keeps growing back! As far as we know it`s at least 15yrs old.The Moor king of Granada brought them over & established them there, it was his kingdom & the symbol on the coat of arms of Granada is the pomegranite. Granada means pomegranit in Spanish :D Our one may be about only 5ft now so small for a tree & we must have got about 20 poms from it this yr. Think if you keep it in a warm place & take the flowers off till it`s strong enough to hold the fruit you might be lucky :)
Its only the last few yrs our oranges have been producing, they`re still small so we took the buds of for the first few yrs but we got about 2 dozen oranges off them a few wks back :) We`ve got a couple of people with big groves not far from us. The seville bitter oranges are grown in the streets & avenues & it`s an offence to pick them, you have to ask for permission from the council!

My lot like fruit & have never been ill either :)

Christine, Spain

Yes Jackie, my lot have them as well & never been ill :)

Christine, Spain.

Any of mine that liked them have had oranges esp the Christmas ones :-)

Fruit and vegetables are not hard to digest, it is just doubtful that they provide anything more than fibre unless they are pulped or frozen.  I feed my dogs raw which includes fruit and veggies.  See no reason why vet should veto citrus fruit?

In all the reading about diet I've done recently I did find out that frozen veg can be digested easier than raw so I now have a doggy veg drawer in the freezer :rolleyes: but it doesn't have the same crunch as a raw carrot ;)

My mom's dog would sell her soul for a piece of fruit - moreso than a piece of meat! :)