HI CIndy,

Cindy Haglund wrote in a message to Richard Webb:


CH> There has been a lot said about what kind of bones are safe for a
CH> dog to chew on. In the wild a dog would know how to deal with a
CH> chicken bone. I guess and that wuold be the kind of dog that hunts
CH> chickens. ... um.  :) I think the ban for those bones is for ALL
CH> dogs because thoes dots who wouldn't hunt chickens wouldn't know
CH> what to do with the bones. Perhaps such as the Comfort Dogs. (The
CH> little ones). 

Maybe so.  My vet back in IOwa back in the '80's argued against giving a
dog *any* kind of bone.  HEr argument was that in the wild dogs didn't get
enough of them to do them a lot of harm because they fed as a pack.
EVerybody got a little met, a little grissle, a little bone, etc.


CH> Those round (cuts of a long bone I think ) beaf bones are good tho..
CH> they have that marrow stuff in the middle. The grocery stores have
CH> 'em... 

AS do yours and mine .
Schatze doesn't have any problem with them, but the vet used to tell me if
I was going to give bones to Buddy I should steam them.


 RW> ONe night when we were first displaced after Katrina and living in a
 RW> motel room we'd stopped to get a packet of CHurch's chicken. There was
 RW> one extra drumstick after the wife and i each had our share.  I was
 RW> going to do some paperwork on this computer which I'd salvaged, so I
 RW> went to hand the extra piece to her (the wife that is) to peel from
 RW> the bone for the dog. ROxy reached up, snatched it out of my hand in
 RW> midpass and gulped it down, big end first.  I swear that drumstick
 RW> never touched teeth.

CH>  HUNGRY :)

Yet she had plenty of good food, at least once we took her from the
streets, and this ws over a year later.


Regards,
           Richard
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