Well, don’t do it! Vet TJ Dunn has put together some powerful information and visual evidence that shows bones can hurt our canine pals a lot worse than you might think - regardless of what type of animal or raw versus cooked.
My recommendation… get something like a Kong, stuff it with some cheese or maybe some peanut butter. If you can freeze it, even better. This should keep your dogs busy for hours while you have a great Thanksgiving. See you Friday.
4 responses so far ↓
1 Miko // Nov 6, 2007 at 3:21 pm
I live in a 3rd world country where the dog food industry and vets have no business. We can hardly afford to have food on our table, so what we feed our pets (cats, dogs…) are left over food. I grew up feeding our dogs chicken bone, turkey bone, and all kinds of bone and so does the rest of the country. Our dogs live healthy long lives up to 15 years. We never heard of such claim as splinters etc…
Out of all the dogs I took care of and many of my friends that owns a dog all ate chicken bones and they’re all fine. This symptoms or problems with feeding your dog a bone only seems to occur in countries where the dog food and the vet industries reign.
2 PJ // Nov 30, 2008 at 12:08 pm
I agree with Miko, dogs are canine and they are designed to consume and digest meat and bones. Maybe feeding our pets all the grains, vegetables, and fillers from the multimillion dollar dog food industry have weaked thier intestines….. Go meat.
3 Jeff/dogtrainer // Dec 20, 2008 at 9:17 pm
PJ, your right they are designed to eat meat, but NOT COOKED BONES. raw marrow bones are great for dogs. But cooked bones are brittle and jagged when chewed on by a dog. Its like feeding your dog glass.
4 Geoff // Jan 18, 2009 at 4:27 pm
For 50 years I’ve had and seen dogs fed bones of all types.In all that time and with at least 8 dogs at times I’ve seen two problems.A FISH bone, hook shaped and obviously from a can of puppy food hooked into the rectal sphincter.Removal painful but quick.A flake of large bone (marrow bone?)too large to pass easily through the rectum.Careful reallignement removed it easily.The main problen with bones seems to be dogs who are not used to dealin with them and attempt to swallow whole or as they would canned food.Dogs used to bones seem to instinctively realise that bones need to be broken into small pieces.They also dicard sharp sherds, so their owners can step on them barefoot/
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