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  • Thanks very much everyone, I realise there is a label but there were also a couple of other labels there too so just wanted to be sure as I am a novice gardener. I think rose hips are ok for dogs if not consumed in a large quantity to will obviosuly be careful. Thanks again. 
  • Rose hips are a good source of Vitamin  C so that's  possibly  why the dog was eating them. However  when making rose hip syrup you do have to remove the seeds as they are an irritant. I believe  they used to be dried and ground up to make itching powder so be careful. 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Brothers used to put the fibres from inside the rose hips down back of the collars of their sister’ dresses ... it was called itching powder 😈 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    Is that the voice of experience by any chance Dove ?
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Yep.  It's the fibres, not the seeds, that make the itch.

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    AnniD said:
    Is that the voice of experience by any chance Dove ?
    Yup!    >:)

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    Thought so ! :)
  • Whatever the reason, the dog was not eating them for the vitamin C as dogs and most other animals make their own and do not need it in their diet. Primates and guinea pigs are among the few exceptions, we have a genetic mutation which prevents us from making it.
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