My dogs love baked potatoes,is it allright to give them every now and then? I'm aware you have to cut out the green bits and the eyes,i personally avoid giving these ones anyway!

Are they fattening,do they provide any vitamins or are they just empty calories?

Thanks much for any help:)

Hi Hailey

I'm not sure of the nutritional value of baked potatoes for dogs but I'm sure as a treat they can be given now and again.

Nikki

Try the sweet potato baked too, mine love those.

I would imagine that they dont have much of a vitamin value for dogs, but I doubt they are empty in vitamins. They will be full of carbohydrate which unless burned off turns to sugar and in turn fat. It wont hurt to give them one every now and again. A little bit of what you like never hurts :)

As long as your dogs are well excercised I doubt the occasional potato will make them fat. They are just like us and enjoy a treat sometimes. I could think of much worse treats to give your dogs! Mine loves his potato with his weekly roast dinner.

Dont forget to treat yourself too :)

Weekly roast dinner? You too? That makes me feel so much better, do you give them a christmas dinner too and doggy cake on their birthday? Sad aren't I :-D

Edited: they also get pressies wrapped and open them themselves. :-D :-D

I did give an Xmas dinner. He prefers the veg to the meat. Its his first birthday soon and I want to do something for him as his birthday is on the eve of my wedding and I will have a house full anyway.

I wanted to give him a cake but not sure what to give. Do you get a special doggie cake? If so where do you get them?

If youre mad then so am I!!

You're all flipping potty!!!  Toby gets what's left on my plate - which is usually nothing!!!!!

When my first pup arrived he was fed by the breeder as follows: Breakfast - wheatabix & milk, Lunch - Jacket potato and tuna, Dinner roast chicken, veg and potatoes, supper - porrige made with milk and jam! It took me ages to persuade him that he should eat dog food :D

Your pup ate better than I do!!!

You should have seen the look on his face when presented with dog food instead ;)

Bluebell how did you manage to get your dog eating dog food? Did he give you any trouble? :)

Not once he was really hungry! If I remember rightly I mixed in dog food until it was about 50% and he would regually eat round it. He had his 20 minutes and that was it away it went, until the next meal time. I think in the end he missed 2 meals so about half a day before the penny dropped that it was that or nothing. Trouble is then he was eating it so fast he used to bring it straight back up :( So he then had to be fed a handfull at a time.

Im having a similar problem with the other one at the moment as she has got too used to dad always finding her something 'tasty' to go with the dog food and will just stand and look at the bowl then at me in the hope of something else, infact I think she is trying to cut out the morning dog food meal all together and just have the more interesting evening one with meat. Still she will not be hurt by losing a little weight ;)

Now if anyone has any tips on undoing the animals training of a soft touch hubby.........?