Ever grown an avacado?

[Tuckervill]

My golden retriever mix picks up fresh pecans out of the yard, crunches them open and eats as much of the nut as she can. She taught my other dog that pecans are yummy, but he never cracks them open for himself. She cracks them, gets what she can out and then he comes and cleans up what he can. If I shell them and toss them, they both eat them up like they're cat food treats.

Karen

[Zen]

Trekhawk, keep that dog away from the grapes! Grapes and raisins are toxic for dogs!!

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

When I was growing up in Greenwich Village during the Beatnik era (1950's-early 1960's), everyone who was 'hip' had avocado pits growing on their windowsills. They never got very bushy or had fruit, but they could get 4-6 feet high with multiple branches if you had them in a sunny window in a good pot of soil.
It was a part of life then in the village, and to this day I always associate avocado pits with toothpicks in water with beat poets in sandals and wild grown-up parties.

[Trekhawk]

Trekhawk, keep that dog away from the grapes! Grapes and raisins are toxic for dogs!!

Thanks for the info. He has not shown any side effects to eating grapes but I will keep him away from them. My sister in-law is a vet so I will ask her about it.

[ClockworkOrange]

My two beagles ate anything and everything, the times I caught them pinching our food off the table.....grrrrrrrrrr! But how I loved them...........now that was 20 years ago.

Now Zen, when are we going to see some photos of said avocado plant?

Here we go, an idea for still life once it grows up.



Clock

[Zen]

HA!
I hope that baby doesn't have her daddy's nose

[lph]

My golden retriever mix picks up fresh pecans out of the yard, crunches them open and eats as much of the nut as she can. She taught my other dog that pecans are yummy, but he never cracks them open for himself. She cracks them, gets what she can out and then he comes and cleans up what he can. If I shell them and toss them, they both eat them up like they're cat food treats.

Karen

Growing up I had a pony who loved citrus fruits. She once raided a shopping bag by biting a hole right into it and chewing up four entire grapefruits, peel and all.