Our dog finally figured out how to eat peas straight from the vine.

[denverbill]

For two years or more, peas and green beans were a voraciously awaited treat, plucked by the master and ripped from the fingers by an oddly legume-loving dog. However, apparently, my secret to pea-picking has been revealed. I fear my family shall never again have peas or green beans fresh from the garden.

[demnan]

1. Ha-ha!

That's one smart dog! Pictures would be nice.

[Say_What]

2. smart dog and health conscience too.

My sister's chocolate lab loves plums. As they drop from the tree, Jasmine eats them--she hasn't mastered jumping up to get them yet. :-)

[Bozita]

3. My Rotty is fond of asparagus

She gets the tough ends that we snap off.

NOTHING grows in my garden. If her ball gets stuck in a shrub, she removes the shrub.

[denverbill]

4. Our dog is usually pretty good that way.

She eats some ornamental grass, and now the peas, but other than that, she doesn't do much damage, other than an occasional hole. We have raised beds that we use for veggies, and she doesn't even get into the beds, just the paths.

Our cat, on the other hand, thinks the raised beds are enormous outdoor catboxes. A couple weeks ago, I was planting tomatoes. I dug a hole to plant a tomato, turned to get a tomato plant, and when I turned back around, the cat had leapt into the box, and squatted over the freshly dug hole. I hadn't even had the hole dug for more than 2 seconds before she was trying to poop in it.

[FleshCartoon]

5. Years ago...

...when my recently deceased doggie was still young, we were renting a house that had some blackberry vines growing along the bottom of the chain-link fence. She started going to the blackberry vines everyday to check them out--if there was a new, ripe, juicy berry, she'd pull it off the vine, roll it around in her mouth, and spit it out without ever biting into it.

The vines weren't high enough off the ground yet to produce more that she couldn't reach, so I never did get enough berrys to make a cobbler with while we lived there.

My other dog, still alive but old now, used to eat azaelas off the bushes as soon as they bloomed out.