Besides gas, are crabapples bad for dogs?

[codglvr]

Saga's newest idea of fun while with me at work is to stretch up into the crabapple trees and eat as many as she can reach. It is quite funny to see only the body and legs of a Rottweiler under a short tree. I know it gives her gas, there's no way to not know that, but are they bad for her?

[Nina&Bill]

I'm not sure but there might be something bad about the apple seeds. My girl was a big fan of any kind of fruit but especially apples and grapes. She'd always manage to find apples that had fallen off of the tree at my mom's. The grapes she's gingerly pluck right off of the vines, one grape at a time :D

I'd ask my vet, just to be sure. I do know that eventually I stopped letting her have whole apples and started giving her seed free slices...I'm sure that I started doing that for a reason (darned brain cells) ;)


Nina

[angrygenius]

apple seeds contain minute amounts of cyanide, but if its enough to worry about I don't know. I'd say probably not, since kids have been ingesting them for as long as kids have been eating apples, and I can't recall an illness from it. But, like kids, I would'nt allow her to eat what she liked indiscriminately, because I'd want her to eat the nutritious things more than the "candy", and if she's full of crabapples she either won't eat her food, or she is overeating. JG

[Barbara Surplus]

The seeds are pretty indigestable and will likely pass right through. I wouldn't worry about it.
Barbara

[codglvr]

Thanks everyone. She has finally cleared almost all of them at her level, so unless I see her climing trees, I think the worst is over. As for filling up on candy, (apples) she's a bottomless pit, and I have never seen her turn down anything that even remotely looked like food.;) Maybe we're done with the gas bombs that have been fumigating all of the spiders and other living creatures (including us) out of the basement!:D

[shybird]

There is a bird (I am assuming Blue Jay or Crow) dropping them im my yard. My dogs love to play with the darm things. I'm glad to know they are not harmful. I was pretty sure they were ok, but I always take them away. They look at me like I am the ender of all that is fun... I guess I can let them play from now on. That will really surprise them.

[codglvr]

shybird, the only thing about the crabapples I have found is that they get sticky and icky when they get rotten, hence Balder now needs a bath to get rid of all the sticky blotches on his fur. But that's ok, I'm having the carpets cleaned so they will need one anyway.:D :p