Sounds like a great idea

I'm sure a lot of dogs would like dried fruits and veggies. One of my favorite things for tigger is Crump's dehydrated sweet potato rawhides/chews. He LOVES them, and all it is is dehydrated potato! I'm sure he would also love dehydrated apple and mangos and banana.

Fruits in general can sometimes have alot of sugar, and when you dehydrate them, it's even more concentrated. But IMO it's perfectly fine in moderation. They are "treats" after all!

 

Our dogs hate them. However, a friend's Pointer really loves them. I'd guess it depends on the individual dog's tastes.

 

just remember no grapes or raisins! they are yucky anyway

 

Just watch how much you feed because we all know it's very easy to consume a very large quantity of fibrous, sugary fruit when it's dried... you might get gassed out of your own home!

 

Don't forget to use your left over pumpkin. I sliced and put in the dehydrated last year and my dogs loved them. I usually used sweet potato.

 

Thanks everyone. I think these would work out great; a lot of my dogs like fruit, and since I generally buy a lot of fruit for myself anyway (vegetarian) I wouldn't have to buy anything special. Mine are small enough that I would think one apple would be several treats.

So far I'm planning on starting with apples since I have several, and if the apples go well, we'll try pumpkin and bananas.

 

If you do use dried fruit, use it in VERY small amounts (especially as your dogs are so small). Dried fruit does have a lot of natural sugars in it--my sister is pre-diabetic, and she can't even eat dried fruit. Dogs are not naturally equipped to handle a lot of carbohydrates, even much more so than humans. That is one of the reasons there are so many dogs and cats with diabetes nowdays.

But even wolves will eat some fruit such as berries when they are in season. So a few dried bits are probably fine. I would mix them with dehydrated or free-dried meat bits, which can be given without any qualms.