Dogs who love Broccoli and the Humans who feed it to them

I have been feeding my dogs Broccoli as a key component of their meals for quite a while now.  Wiser ones than I, specifically Dr. Wysong and my homeopathic vet Dr. Charles Loops, and most likely others as well that I am not currently remembering, recommended it as a healthy and wholesome addition to their diets.

My dogs have all loved it.  I am not sure how I got them to, but since my dogs are all dachshunds, and dachshunds always want to do whatever their humans are doing... well, that is likely how.  I suppose there are breeds that if you got down in their face and pretended to munch on and slobber on and chomp on a piece of broccoli, that they would look at you like you were an idiot.  But not a dachshund.  You do that with a dachshund and they simply want some because you are having some. They are positive that if you like it, they will like it, and they will do everything they can to convince you to share with them.

My two 12 year old rescued dachshunds never had a lot of qualms about eating their broccoli.  It was human food, they could hear me prepare it, so that meant it must be tasty.

But recently I got a 5 month old puppy from a Natural Rearing breeder who did nothing but B.A.R.F., meaning breed appropriate raw food.  So our new canine kid had no idea what to do with the green stuff.  At first she threw it up in the air.  Pick it up, throw.  Pick it up, throw.  But she soon noticed how the other dogs would snap it up and eat it.  So she started to try and eat it, but kept making funny faces like it was a hairball or something.  I don't know that she was ever impressed with my imitation of a dog slobbering and chomping and making yummy food noises, but she was definitely convinced by the behavior of the other dachshunds that this was a big treat.

So she tried her best and now chomps it down with the rest of them, if mom rips it up in little delicate pieces for her inside her food bowl.  And stays and watches her eat it.  And tells her what a good and wonderful doggie she is.  And doesn't go off to do something else interesting in the kitchen.

(See my Document Library for the Dr. Wysong and Dr. Loops reference materials in the Dog Diets and Food Category.