Stupid question Dogs & Tomatoes

[Bill George]

Do Dogs eat tomatoes? My wife found a 1/2 eaten one by one of the nearly dead vines and asked if I had left? Nope and later on it was gone??

We have Chipmunks and Squirrels but never saw them interested in any garden produce.

[Ed Aumiller]

Yes... and other vegetables.... depends on dog (&breed???)
Our border collie will NOT...
Our mix of collie & shepherd will eat basically anything... tomatos, squash, zucchini, corn on cob... etc

[Rich Engelhardt]

Our Treeing Walker/Collie/Great Pyrenees mix eats Habaneros and other assorted hot sauces that make humans wince so,,,I put nothing past what a pooch will gobble down.

[kevin nee]

I had a shepherd that ate tomatoes off the plant. He would catch cherry tomatoes just like dog treats.

[Lee Schierer]

We had a Cocker spaniel that would pick his own blackberries and peas. He would curl his lips back and use just his front teeth to grip the blackberry to pull it off. He would go up and down the row of peas and find one that was ready to pick, grip it in his teeth and back up until it came off. Then he would chew it just enough to break it open, eat the peas and spit out the hull.

[Zachary Hoyt]

Chipmunks will eat tomatoes in my experience. I don't know about squirrels or dogs.

[Brian W Evans]

My border collie mix eats tomatoes all the time. She also loves carrots, peas, and especially bell peppers. She's too smart - plans how to get the bell peppers out of the garden like she's in a bank heist movie.

The boxer mix is indifferent to tomatoes. Loves carrots and peas, though.

[Kent A Bathurst]

Raccoons


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[Allan Dozier]

All the above might eat tomatoes. In my experience, blame the squirrels first. A few years ago the farm plot nearest the woods had many squirrel damaged tomatoes. They even carried some into the woods. Most surprising, my son was walking in the woods and a tomato fell to the ground out of the oak tree. Hate squirrels

[Ron Citerone]

All the above might eat tomatoes. In my experience, blame the squirrels first. A few years ago the farm plot nearest the woods had many squirrel damaged tomatoes. They even carried some into the woods. Most surprising, my son was walking in the woods and a tomato fell to the ground out of the oak tree. Hate squirrels

Yes, this!

[Stan Calow]

Squirrels. But also opossums if you have them around. Slugs can do some big gouges as well. My dog wont go after any garden item.

[Jim Koepke]

Don't leave out the birds. I haven't yet met a chicken that won't go after a tomato.

We used to have muscovy ducks. I was always getting upset at everyone in the house for picking my cherry tomatoes before I could get one. One morning will getting a drink of water at the kitchen sink I saw a perfectly ripe cherry tomato and felt the joy of finally getting one before anyone else in the house was up. As I was drinking my glass of water our largest muscovy walked up to the tomato plant and eyed the tomato. First from one side then the other. Then he opened his mouth and plucked it from the vine. I was in shock watching the large lump slowly travel down his neck.

I had to apologize to everyone else in the house as they laughed when told of the incident.

jtk

[Curt Harms]

Squirrels. But also opossums if you have them around. Slugs can do some big gouges as well. My dog wont go after any garden item.

Ground hogs too.

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[Bill George]

Not sure if my Border Collie would but my Aussie Cattle dog might, he eats vegetables cooked or raw and cashews. But we do have possums.

[Dan Hunkele]

I quit growing tomatoes because the deer ate them before I could get to them. I grew a couple of plants in pots not a whole garden.

[Curt Harms]

I quit growing tomatoes because the deer ate them before I could get to them. I grew a couple of plants in pots not a whole garden.

I found the same thing a couple years ago. I wondered if vandals were destroying the tomato plants but there was nothing on the ground. I talked to a landscape guy and he suggested deer. Not long after sure enough there were deer during the day not 100 feet from the back door. It turns out they like Lillys also. It looks like if I want tomatoes or lillys it'll be a multi wire electric fence.

[Brian Tymchak]

I found the same thing a couple years ago. I wondered if vandals were destroying the tomato plants but there was nothing on the ground. I talked to a landscape guy and he suggested deer. Not long after sure enough there were deer during the day not 100 feet from the back door. It turns out they like Lillys also. It looks like if I want tomatoes or lillys it'll be a multi wire electric fence.

I've used Deer and Rabbit repellent (Home Depot) on Lillys and petunias for the last several years and have had no more problems. They eat everything else but not those.

[Bill George]

When I was younger and grew a garden on the small farm we owned it was Racoons. They loved the sweet corn hanging cans out to rattle did zero. So I put a old clock radio in the pine tree close to the garden and powered it off a long drop cord. It sat on a shelf high enough to be out of the way and tuned to a all night station. It seemed to work, we did not have many deer in those days.