Apples

Discussion in 'Labrador Health' started by Beckyt6, Jan 1, 2017.

  1. Beckyt6

    Beckyt6 Registered Users

    Joined:
    Nov 29, 2015
    Messages:
    228
    Morning

    To celebrate the new year Alfie stole a whole apple off the kitchen counter and ate the whole thing!

    I know apple seeds are poisonous to dogs but does anyone know if the seeds contained in one apple are enough to cause problems?

    Thank you
     
  2. edzbird

    edzbird Registered Users

    Joined:
    Mar 31, 2015
    Messages:
    5,279
    Location:
    Isle of Man
    He should be OK. If he didn't actually break the seed - which is most likely - they will pass straight through with out any toxic effect at all. One apple is unlikely to cause a problem even if he managed to chew every seed.
    Coco ate a lot of wind fall apples the first year we had him, they DID cause loose stool just from the quantity of fruit. He didn't do it this year :)
     
  3. JenBainbridge

    JenBainbridge Registered Users

    Joined:
    Jun 28, 2016
    Messages:
    2,941
    Location:
    Darlington, UK
    My dad has an apple tree and Stanley used to steal the apples and eat them. I only ever let him have one because I didn't want a runny bum.

    I didn't know anything about the seeds being poisonous but it never did him any harm, and he was only about 4/5 months at the time :)
     
  4. Beckyt6

    Beckyt6 Registered Users

    Joined:
    Nov 29, 2015
    Messages:
    228
    Thank you!!
     
  5. Boogie

    Boogie Supporting Member Forum Supporter

    Joined:
    Mar 29, 2014
    Messages:
    8,416
    Zaba eats endless windfalls and is fine :)
     
  6. Emily_BabbelHund

    Emily_BabbelHund Longest on the Forum without an actual dog

    Joined:
    Jul 31, 2016
    Messages:
    3,959
    Location:
    Regensburg, Germany (Bavaria)
    I was always sort of obsessive about cutting up Brogan's apples and avoiding the seeds, but I knew this wonderful Lab in my dog walking group back in California who was 15 years old and his person swore the fact that he was still doing great at such an age was due to the fact that he fed his dog a whole apple (core, seeds and all) once a day.
     
  7. Boogie

    Boogie Supporting Member Forum Supporter

    Joined:
    Mar 29, 2014
    Messages:
    8,416
    I have eaten apples, core and all for 50 years lol!

    :)
     
    SwampDonkey likes this.
  8. Cath

    Cath Registered Users

    Joined:
    Jan 17, 2015
    Messages:
    3,883
    Annie is always helping herself to apples off the tree in the garden. She has been fine. Fred likes pears better than apples :rolleyes:
     
  9. edzbird

    edzbird Registered Users

    Joined:
    Mar 31, 2015
    Messages:
    5,279
    Location:
    Isle of Man
    ha ha..the same stuff in them is poisonous to us too..just don't chew the pips :eek:
     
  10. Plum's mum

    Plum's mum Registered Users

    Joined:
    Jan 1, 2017
    Messages:
    717
    Location:
    East Sussex
    When I was growing up we had three labs and it was a family habit to give any apple cores we'd discarded to the dogs, so each dog must have got through a ton in their lifetimes and they were all as right as ninepence.
     
  11. MF

    MF Registered Users

    Joined:
    May 5, 2014
    Messages:
    2,545
    Location:
    Cape Town, South Africa
    I read somewhere that the amount of arsenic (the substance in the apple seed) needed to kill a Lab equates to the seeds in 18 apples. But the seeds need to be crushed fine so that the arsenic is available.

    I'd hazard a guess that the seeds pass through whole making them harmless.

    I don't particularly like apples myself, but if I get a crisp crunchy one (the only ones I like), I eat the entire apple, chewing the seeds, too - I love the flavor! Like almonds. (Reminds me of that Roald Dahl story...)

    When I make an apple crumble Snowie gets the apple cores, although he only eats about four or five cores and then refuses the rest.
     

Share This Page