How to stop my dog from eating garden vegetables
Dogs harvest and eat homegrown produce like tomatoes, peppers, apples, and strawberries directly from plants and trees. This habit ruins the harvest and prevents owners from successfully growing food in their yards.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
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- 1Accepting the behaviorDid this help you?
- 2Letting them learn their lesson from hot peppersDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“My lab keeps stealing peppers and tomatoes out of the vegetable garden.”source ↗
“He also steals apples off the tree.”source ↗
“Our labs ate out of the garden.”source ↗
“My dog steals my strawberries 😂”source ↗
Where this came up
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