I’ve had my suspicions for a while…and today, I finally caught him! My dog, Tanner, has been eating tomatoes from our garden! He kept taking too long to come inside when I called him, and he’d come from that side of the yard behind a little fence, licking his chops. But I thought, “surely not.” Surely. Today I caught him over there with a little porter tomato in his mouth! I made him spit it out – half eaten. Maybe that’s where his horrific gas has been coming from… (I know, TMI!) So, now I am faced with a dilemma — do I sacrifice a few fallen tomatoes to the birds and the dog, or put some sort of fence up? Trouble I expect from the wild critters we share our space with – bunnies, birds, grasshoppers, but not my own mutt. Ah, ya gotta love him.
Maybe bird netting from Home Depot would do the job for birds and tanner. Worth a try, easier than a fence.
Ha! Tell him not to speak without talking to his lawyer first! According to family lore, Sweet Husband’s childhood German Sheppard would do that–always the just perfectly ripe ones too.
Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment on my blog. Here’s the watermelon pickle recipe–they’re definitely a little stronger than normal pickles, but I really like them.
http://www.mybitofearth.net/2007/07/watermelon-two-.html
Hallo Diana und guten Morgen aus Deutschland!
Vielen Dank für Deinen Besuch bei mir im Garten, über den ich mich sehr gefreut habe! Thanks a lot for passing by, new visitors are always highly appreciated, and especially YOU! I was glad to learn about your German roots!
By the way, your German language skills still seem to be quite good! ;-)) To you have the chance to speak / hear German regularly?
Best wished und ein schönes Wochenende!
Anita
Oh, the little devil. He’s pretty cute, so I’m sure you’ll forgive him.
Have you run into the garden blog called A Study In Contrasts? Kim seems to have a tomato eating dog, too, Diana!
Annie at the Transplantable Rose