This happened to one of my Irish Wolfhounds. Clare loved apples. She picked them from the trees and ate the apples she found on the ground.
The apples that were fermented caused a problem...ethanol toxicosis...which screwed up her heart.
Moral of the story: Keep your dogs away from fermented fruit.
I had a chocolate lab that loved apples.
He wouldn’t eat them off the ground.
I had to cut them into slices or he wouldn’t eat them.
“Moral of the story: Keep your dogs away from fermented fruit.”
WOW!
We have Australian Shepherds and a hundred year old farmhouse ,the old farmer planted many fruit trees.
Some years we have incredible volumes of apples, pears mulberries... after a strong summer wind and a few days of sun, you can smell the fermentaion working.
They do not remain long because every critter in DuPage County stops by in the evening for a free meal.
I set up a security camera just to watch and enjoy them.
The dogs do enjoy the apples and all this time I just thought they were naturally nutty; now the possibility they running out for some hard cider? Australian Shepherds are a clever lot.
No more Frisbee in apple season, the jumps could get out of hand?
Perhaps a breathalyzer would work?
Safe from the apples this past year, a very meager crop.
We will keep them away when the apples return.
Thank for the heads up.