Our dog is 20 wks old and we have him on a dry complete food, 3 meals a day (which I must admit he sometimes picks at)

I have recently been told that we could give him a boiled egg in its shell a couple of times a week and also tinned pilchards in tom sauce.
He has had a  bit of apple today (I dropped it on the floor and he wolfed it down) He seemed to enjoy this, but I have just noticed that his poo has come out much softer than usuall.
Could this be the apple that has done this to him, or maybe it is because he is teething at the moment (im guessing that teething effects his poo just like it does when babies teeth?)

I have let him have a raw carrot to chew on and he seems to like this too, are there any other vegs that I can give him safely? I am with him supervising when he eats the carrot.

Just wondered if anybody else gives their puppies fruit or veg and am I doing him any harm by letting him have them (afterall fruit & veg are full of vitamins!)

so long as you dont feed onions and grapes both very bad for dogs.
if you are wanting the vitamins out of carrots then best to blend them as you'll find they come out the same way they went in :D
any other fruit n veg is fine :-)

i didnt know that grapes were bad for dogs,why are they? my lab loves em

When feeding fruit and vegetables you need to blend them all as dogs find it difficult to break down cellouse in fruit and vegetables.  When they ate fruit and vegs it was in an animals stomach pre digested so the cellouse does need to be broken down first.

Warm regards Susan

My puppy (11 weeks old at the end of this week) loved nothing better than a bit of egg once a week, boiled and all cut up small - I don't even need to clean the bowl after she's had that as she licks it clean. She also loves whole carrots, which she uses as a toy and then will eat. She also ate a stray chip that fell off my plate (she was quicker getting to it than I was). She also likes apple, nectarines (but not peaches) and bananas. Again, I tried her on very small pieces at first, and whatever she gets is cut up small (apart from the carrot). I like to try and keep her diet varied but healthy - she is currently on Royal Canin, whcih is what she was weaned onto, but I will be changing her on to Burns gradually.

Try giving her a raw egg. Just break it into her bowl and give her the shell to chew :)

Daisy

Hi fiona, if you put in "grapes" into the search facility on here you will find lots of threads and the reasons :-)

edited to add.... its to do with kidney failure in dogs.

Can certainly attest to the fact that carrots come out in much the same format as they went in.  Even so, we like nice big hard carrots, (beets are good too) as they satisfy the chewing urge.  Just make sure they get chewed enough so as not to go down in too big chunks and cause a problem.

Oh, a note about the beets.  They will make urine and stools look like there is blood in them with the dark red stain.  Gave our Vet a fright once too when we forgot to mention that our ESS had been eating beets.

i'm assuming you meant beets as in beetroot ( can be pickled ) lol
for a minute there couldnt work out why the wee would be red.... thought you meant sugar beet :D :D