Dogs Eating Fruit Pulp and Other Outcomes

The kitchen counters here at Chez Champion of My Heart now boast a stainless steel juicer, and I bought it for my hubs for xmas. Actually, I gave it to him before Thanksgiving because I’m a spaz about presents sometimes. This means Lilly and Ginko get the resulting fruit pulp. Suffice to say there is a price to be paid for dogs eating fruit pulp.

Dogs Eating Fruit Pulp? How Much is Okay?

Now that we’ve fully transitioned to the new dog food, Ginko eats about 1 1/2 – 2 cups of food twice a day. Lilly eats just 1/2-3/4 cup twice a day.

That, not to be overly graphic, results the requisite number of predicable and productive trips outside. Two per dog per day.

bowl of fruit pulp from juicer - dogs eating fruit pulp articleFiber HO!

BUT, when the hubs feeds them big bowls of fruit pulp each day, after he makes me fresh juice … suffice it to say the outcomes have doubled … at least.

Who knew there’d be such a price to pay for a new juicing obsession.

I knew the juicer wasn’t cheap. I knew buying THAT much fresh fruit would increase our grocery budget. Silly me … I just didn’t realize there would be other consequences. Like 2 x the scooping.

Seems Harmless Enough

I figure the extra fiber cannot hurt. And, they’ve come to enjoy it … it seems.

Lilly does get a tad picky, if the day’s selection includes too much orange pulp. As we learned from this video we did for my Dog Food Dish Blog called “Four Flavors Dogs Can Taste,” Lilly isn’t a fan of orange (or at least orange peel).

As for Me

I admit it. I’m spoiled now. Store-bought juice tastes syrupy to me. This fresh stuff is light and different. I’m a big fan of adding fresh ginger to nearly any fruit juicing mix. Sometimes we throw in some tumeric because it’s also supposed to be good for you. The latest craze in our kitchen (seen here as green swirls) is some kind of algae that Tom bought.

I believe this concoction is apple, pear, carrot … with algae.