# Probably a real bad decision. Feeding Brussel Sprouts to Dachshunds **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 25, 2020, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/probably-a-real-bad-decision-feeding-brussel-sprouts-to-dachshunds/928863 "2020-12-25T03:07:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2020, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/probably-a-real-bad-decision-feeding-brussel-sprouts-to-dachshunds/928863/1 "2020-12-25T03:07:03Z")
I mean, this Crew stinks anyway. And they are kinda gassy, too. But feeding them left-over Brussel Sprouts probably wasn’t the best idea. I didn’t want to waste them, and the chickens are all gone, so to the dogs they went. Good Lord, that Jeep is gonna REEK tomorrow. Doxie winked at me as he wolfed the last couple down. The stinky bastard! I’m in for a big Christmas Dog Fart. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2020, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/probably-a-real-bad-decision-feeding-brussel-sprouts-to-dachshunds/928863/2 "2020-12-25T03:08:40Z")
That’s almost as bad as feeding Greyhounds broccoli. Just - no. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2020, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/probably-a-real-bad-decision-feeding-brussel-sprouts-to-dachshunds/928863/3 "2020-12-25T03:13:45Z")
The funny thing is, 4 of them wouldn’t eat them, till Doxie scarfed his down. Then it was a competition. They all had eat theirs, or he would get them. Lord knows they can’t let that happen! Dogs are funny. And stinky. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2020, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/probably-a-real-bad-decision-feeding-brussel-sprouts-to-dachshunds/928863/4 "2020-12-25T03:32:49Z")
As I mentioned in that earlier dachshund thread, I also grew up with a bona-fide pedigreed [Heying-Teckle dachshund](http://www.dachshundhistoryonline.com/historic-information/notable-dachshund-people/tribute-to-rose-heying/), also named Doxie, who would eat anything he saw people eating. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2020, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/probably-a-real-bad-decision-feeding-brussel-sprouts-to-dachshunds/928863/5 "2020-12-25T03:40:13Z")
The other day my partner’s dog gulped nearly a whole breadfruit that had fallen from the tree. I was spared the consequences, as I am quarantining with my son who recently arrived on an airplane from California, but I’ve been told the consequences were epic. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2020, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/probably-a-real-bad-decision-feeding-brussel-sprouts-to-dachshunds/928863/6 "2020-12-25T03:45:16Z")
I’m pretty sure Doxie also ate a field mouse earlier today. This is gonna be bad… ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2020, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/probably-a-real-bad-decision-feeding-brussel-sprouts-to-dachshunds/928863/7 "2020-12-25T03:52:39Z")
Worse for the field mouse. It’s trapped in there. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2020, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/probably-a-real-bad-decision-feeding-brussel-sprouts-to-dachshunds/928863/8 "2020-12-25T04:48:20Z")
Yeah, ya gotta be careful with [Limburger,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuaHYIqN-iQ) too. god that shit’s almost forty years old. Where did my life go??? ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2020, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/probably-a-real-bad-decision-feeding-brussel-sprouts-to-dachshunds/928863/9 "2020-12-25T11:23:40Z")
Brussel Sprouts are not allowed into my house. That is all. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2020, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/probably-a-real-bad-decision-feeding-brussel-sprouts-to-dachshunds/928863/10 "2020-12-25T23:42:04Z")
No Jeep ride today, but somebody dropped a Deuce in the Mudroom. Nasty buggers! ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2020, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/probably-a-real-bad-decision-feeding-brussel-sprouts-to-dachshunds/928863/11 "2020-12-28T04:16:37Z")
Pluto, the Spaniel With The Iron Stomach readily handles quite a variety of small fruits, cheese and raw vegetables (ie. carrots, celery and lettuce) in limited quantities, but I’m not about to risk feeding him members of the Brassica family. Brussels sprouts and dachshunds? You might want to move into a motel for a couple of days. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2020, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/probably-a-real-bad-decision-feeding-brussel-sprouts-to-dachshunds/928863/12 "2020-12-29T10:47:25Z")
Leftover asparagus and Betsy the obese Beagle turned out to be a deadly combination. When was Christmas Eve? Yep…still smelling it. I admit it. I ‘Febrezed’ her hind end a few times. Hey! She thought it was a game😲 ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2020, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/probably-a-real-bad-decision-feeding-brussel-sprouts-to-dachshunds/928863/13 "2020-12-29T16:47:42Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Hey! She thought it was a game You would too, if the _right_ person febreezed your rear end. …spriiiiitzz. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2020, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/probably-a-real-bad-decision-feeding-brussel-sprouts-to-dachshunds/928863/14 "2020-12-29T17:55:26Z")
To paraphrase Bad Santa: _“I’ve never Fabreezed ANYONE!”_ ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2020, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/probably-a-real-bad-decision-feeding-brussel-sprouts-to-dachshunds/928863/15 "2020-12-29T21:46:29Z")
My dachshund Mauser once ate 2/3 of a bag of Mint Oreos that was accidentally left under the front seat of our car. Sis and I went into the restaurant, and came back just as Mauser was polishing them off. He didn’t get sick, but walking him for the next day and a half was… interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2020, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/probably-a-real-bad-decision-feeding-brussel-sprouts-to-dachshunds/928863/16 "2020-12-29T21:50:02Z")
Twice, by means of extreme sneakiness, our long-departed cocker spaniel managed to scarf up batches of brownies. In spite of the known sensitivity of dogs to chocolate, she did not get sick, unless you count the massive outpouring of chocolatey diarrhea. We went through a _lot_ of rug shampoo on those occasions. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2020, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/probably-a-real-bad-decision-feeding-brussel-sprouts-to-dachshunds/928863/17 "2020-12-29T21:52:46Z")
This thread title gives me great pleasure every time I see it. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2020, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/probably-a-real-bad-decision-feeding-brussel-sprouts-to-dachshunds/928863/18 "2020-12-29T23:36:36Z")
> [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > You would too, if the _right_ person febreezed your rear end. …spriiiiitzz. This remark spotlights a question that’s been gnawing in the back of my mind throughout this thread: How is any of this any different that feeding Brussels sprouts (or asparagus, or Mint Oreos, or whatever) to a human, possibly even including yourself? When I was quite young, family lore has it, our Airedale ate a box of crayons, and produced output in full rainbow technicolor for several days thereafter. ETA: And I have just discovered, literally in the last two days, that drinking Concord grape juice results in output that not only smells like Concord grape juice, but is also purple. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2020, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/probably-a-real-bad-decision-feeding-brussel-sprouts-to-dachshunds/928863/19 "2020-12-29T23:41:00Z")
In the ‘90s, when I worked at Quaker Oats, we had an issue in which one of the food dyes that we used in the multi-colored Cap’n Crunch Crunchberries (a blue dye) didn’t break down particularly well in some kids’ digestive systems. There were a number of panicky phone calls from worried parents, whose darling children were now producing blue or green poo. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2020, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/probably-a-real-bad-decision-feeding-brussel-sprouts-to-dachshunds/928863/20 "2020-12-30T00:40:32Z")
Reminds me of one of the plotlines in “Cujo”, written in 1981. Seems like someone involved should have remembered that, or any real life inspiration for the “food dye freaks out parents when kids’ output is weird colors” plot. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/probably-a-real-bad-decision-feeding-brussel-sprouts-to-dachshunds/928863.md?page=2)