I had a dog that, late summer early autumn, when on a walk she would help herself to blackberries from the hedgerow. she loved them.

I remember walking up a hillside trail with young Bogey and he casually stripped a wild rose off a bush, thorns and all, didn't miss a step. He didn't like carrots though. A lot of dogs do, and they're supposed to be good for cleaning teeth.

I can make a really nice stew and give Charley (a male Cairn) some with his dinner, but if ONE pea makes it’s way in there, the gravy is liked and sucked off, but left like tiny orphans in the dish!..NO pea is ingested! None of my dogs over the years have been fond of a green pea.

I’m going to try an adventure with a dog and an orange this week...I’ve never tried it before - I’ll report back...

My previous dog loved carrots, she would walk to the fridge and wait patiently for me to pull one out of the veg drawer. She would then carry it 'cigar' style into the other room, where she sat on the couch and pushed it into my hand to hold for her, so she could munch away. Once it got to a certain level she would gently retrieve it and trap it between her paws to finish it.

My goose loved snails, we had a goose when I was younger, got him when I was 5 and he died when I was 20, would have lived longer but the neighbors got a vicious dog who got out and killed the goose and goat we had. The dog had previously bitten a human, so animal control put the dog down after it attacked our goose and goat.

We had a duck too, but it passed away at 12 or 13 years old of natural causes.

Charlee will eat frozen peas but she wont eat cooked peas.

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Renting in Canada just sucks across the board, sucks being a renter.

If you want a dog that eats anything, get a golden retriever. Carrots, lettuce, the contents of the rubbish bin....

Is that why they are called retrievers?

Probably! I think they're called retrievers because they were used to retrieve water birds that hunters had shot, why the hell they didn't eat those too I don't know. If I could be sure that no one was eating while reading this I'd give a list of the disgusting things my goldie ate/tried to eat on his walks, but being a good little community member I won't. Actually, I've made myself feel sick remembering.

Goldens are probably the next popular water dog in the hunting retriever class, but still a distant second from Labs. Lots of dogs can be good retrievers though, and even Standard Poodles can be very competitive (one training video I saw showed one working very well in a field trial). Dogs eating ducks (like dogs eating disgusting things on walks) is a matter of training.

Ours was trained within an inch of his life, and was beautifully behaved and obedient, but he just couldn't or wouldn't learn that one. I guess no animal, or human, is perfect eh?

There are a few things most of them just can't resist. One thing I was told by the owner of the kennel where I worked was "Never say your dog would never do something, because they surely will."

Fascinating conversation.

Brainwashed.....In the year 2020, I find it preposterous some still support this. As the host says....it is certainly in need of reform.