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
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
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
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.
Annie is always helping herself to apples off the tree in the garden. She has been fine. Fred likes pears better than apples
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.
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.
