Spot the gooseberry thief!

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Is this a new kind of gooseberry sawfly? (He's not called 'Spot' by the way! :D)
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Maybe he's called patch!!!!! :)
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That doesn't look like a 640 photo!
We used to loose Gooseberries to Pheasants before we had a fruit cage.
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Well if your gooseberry bushes are as thorny as mine I reckon he deserves his ill gotten gains !
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It's surprising what dogs eat. One of mine used to join in picking and eating bilberries on the moors. We never did get enough to make a pie. The children always ate theirs before we got home and I got bored.

Does your dog eat any other fruit?
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With the thorny bushes, maybe he is called, Scratch, then... :)
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I've just been down to the allotment to do some harvesting in view of the big wet coming tomorrow. Merrily picking blackberries & raspberries & putting them in the container, only to find it was not filling as fast as expected. Behold the dog with purple slobber! She is never allowed down if harvesting anything 'ball' shaped & I've become quite used to her helping herself to peas & beans but wasn't aware she needed some fruit in her 5 a day! :D

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Each year the nearby resident Badgers 'hoover' up any ripe Gooseberries....as well as carrots, Strawberries plus digging up spuds to get at worms

Being protected there is little we can do but fence ...but that's another story
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My friend has a lovely black labrador called Charlie. When she accepted my invitation to help herself to our red gooseberries, I was a bit surprised when she asked if Charlie could come too. He's very well behaved, so I agreed.

I was staggered to see him sticking his head right in amongst the thorny branches, select a gooseberry, pick it and eat it. :shock: :lol: It's a good job I saw it with my own eyes, as, if she had told me he did this, I wouldn't have believed her! He did it several times too...how on earth he didn't do himself a mischief on those thorns, I'll never know. I always look like I've been tangled in barbed wire after I've harvested goosegobs!
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