Yellow summer squash for dogs?

[msj]

Is is OK to feed yellow summer squash to dogs? My girl is a picky eater sometimes in the morning. This morning was one of those mornings. I had put her breakfast down and she went to it but then decided she didn’t want it. So I happened to have a yellow summer squash in my hand and I broke off a small piece (raw)and offered it. She loved it so I cut the rest of it up and mixed it with her food and she scarfed everything down like there was no tomorrow.

When I pick the squash I take them when they are still very small, maybe only about 4.5-5" and the blossom is still on them so the skins aren’t tough at that point.

So dog owners with veggie gardens, what about it-summer squash (raw) in their diet? A yes or no…

What about cooked as well?

I had hoped my horses would eat them on a regular basis as a treat, like carrots, but after about 2 or 3 earlier this yr, both horses turned them down. I have 2 squash plants in the garden and I think the neighbors are getting tired of finding a squash or 2 on their porches on about a daily basis. :lol:

PS. Dinnertime is not a problem with her eating everything.

[Canaqua]

Not sure about a regular diet, but my young BC mix stole two, rather large, yellow summer squashes from my brother’s MIL when we were sharing a rental house earlier this summer. MIL picked them from her garden, brought them along and left them on a low counter. Molly promptly found them, hid with them, and ate most of them before anyone noticed. She didn’t seem any the worse for wear, not even any poop issues. She does eat carrots on a regular basis, so veggies are not new to her.

[wendy]

I doubt they add anything useful, nutritionally speaking, to the diet but they are safe to feed. As a diet “bulker” for the overweight-prone dogs they can a cheap/interesting departure from the typical green beans offered for that purpose.