Can Dogs Eat Tangerines, Clementines, and Mandarins?
Dogs can eat tangerines and clementines. In fact, dogs can eat all kinds of oranges, including mandarins and Satsuma oranges.
The orange peel and seeds should always be removed before feeding your dog orange slices. The peel is difficult to digest and could lead to intestinal obstruction. The oils in the peel can also cause serious GI upset (upset stomach), leading to vomiting, diarrhea, and possibly dehydration.
Are tangerines a fruit dogs can eat?
Yes. Dogs can eat tangerines. But you need to be careful with them. “A lot of the same considerations that apply to oranges also apply to feeding dogs tangerines,” Purina Senior Nutritionist Jan Dempsey explains.
Tangerines and oranges are cousins in their fruit family. They share a few similar traits–round, orange, have a peel and are naturally sweet. Even though tangerines are more tart than oranges, they still they have a lot of sugar.
How to Feed Your Dog Tangerines Safely
Just like oranges, tangerines include indigestible stuff that might upset a sensitive dogs stomach. The stem, the bitter rind, the white peel (the pith) and even the seeds should ideally be removed, although a dog, depending on their size, may be able to chew up, swallow, and comfortably poop most everything in a small tangerine.
Avoiding the parts of fruits and vegetables that are least likely to be digested comfortably, though, can help you avoid dog vomiting, diarrhea, and stomach pain as well as a potential trip to the veterinarian to deal with an intestinal blockage, says Renee Schmid, DVM, DABVT, DABT, a veterinarian toxicologist who works with Pet Poison Helpline.
And what about essential oils? You may have heard that you should avoid them around dogs, and citrus fruit like tangerines have essential oils. However, Schmid says you dont need to worry about the amount in a fruit: “Citrus fruits do contain essential oils, but its really the concentrated oils that can be more irritating and problematic than eating the whole fruit itself.”
So if your dog likes tangerines and you dont overfeed these sugary treats to disrupt your dogs healthy diet, youre golden.
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