My puppy likes tomato juice!

[jazzielady]

So I made a virgin mary when I got up this morning. Next thing I knew, my 8 month old puppy decided to taste it, and wouldn't stop! So I put about 1/4 inch of plain tomato juice in a bowl, and she drank the whole thing!!

I'm not planning to make this a regular part of her diet, but think it's funny as heck!

 

[clutter]

I had a bassett that would wait until the tomatoes were JUST ripe, and eat them off the vine. She'd come in the house with green marks on her fur (and smelling like a tomato plant) after her foraging expeditions.

 

[pansmermaidzlagoon]

that is a good thing !!! Many people feed their dogs tomato sauce/juice - it stops the urine from leaving spots on your lawn!!!! You can also get it in extract form in a pill!

..you can't talk about puppies here without pics!!!!!!!

 

[Rupert B Puppenstein]

Please don't feed your dog tomatoes...they are actually very dangerous. It is a myth that feeding your dogs tomatoes will not leave spots on your lawn. There is no solution to that unfortunately other than immediately watering the spots they pee on.

http://www.doggiebistro.com/Common_Foods_Unsafe_For_Dogs.html

 

[pansmermaidzlagoon]

Please don't feed your dog tomatoes...they are actually very dangerous. It is a myth that feeding your dogs tomatoes will not leave spots on your lawn. There is no solution to that unfortunately other than immediately watering the spots they pee on.

http://www.doggiebistro.com/Common_Foods_Unsafe_For_Dogs.html

my neighbor feed her dogs tomato sauce religiously and we saw a marked difference after we stopped the pills. Hmmmmm.......

 

[Luvchefmic]

I don't think the occassional tomato will hurt a dog, if concerned I would consult your vet. There's info all over the internet and its conflicting info...there are articles that say it can cause heart arrythmias and tremors but I would think that I still would go with professional opinions. Some dog food clearly has dried tomatos listed in their ingredients.

My aunt is Italian and has had dogs all her life live to be an old age she always cooked for them & yes they had sauce (or as she calls it gravy) so who really knows ?

 

[marcyinPA]

Most of the "bad for dogs" food lists that I've seen list tomatoes. I know that when my dog snags one off of our tomato plants in the summer, he always AlWAYS pukes them up. Unfortunately, it's hard to keep him out of the garden, even with fencing around it.

 

[pansmermaidzlagoon]

I don't think the occassional tomato will hurt a dog, if concerned I would consult your vet. There's info all over the internet and its conflicting info...there are articles that say it can cause heart arrythmias and tremors but I would think that I still would go with professional opinions. Some dog food clearly has dried tomatos listed in their ingredients.

My aunt is Italian and has had dogs all her life live to be an old age she always cooked for them & yes they had sauce (or as she calls it gravy) so who really knows ?

maybe heating or processing alters it chemically so that sauce and the pills are OK?

 

[Luvchefmic]

maybe heating or processing alters it chemically so that sauce and the pills are OK?

I have no idea...good point

 

[Sarah_Rose]

I just checked and, sure enough, tomatoes are listed as one of the ingredients in our dog food (EVO - a high quality grain-free kibble). So, they can't be all that poisonous, though perhaps it is only the cooked form.