0n (27 Jun 08) Richard Webb wrote to Mark Lewis...

 RW> Hi Mark,

 RW> Mark Lewis wrote in a message to Jim White:

ML> of course, she's gotten all types of bones since she was 6 weeks
ML> old... she definitely knows how to eat chicken bones right along
ML> with pork and beef bones ;)

 RW> I hope you don't allow her to have them and if she gets them it's by
 RW> accident. DOgs should not be given poultry bones.

 RW> For the uninitiated that might be lurking along let me explain a bit. 
 RW> COnsider a bird. IT flies.  because it's designed to fly its bones are
 RW> hollow, like structural members of an aircraft. A beef bone by
 RW> contrast is not hollow.  birds need hollow bones to be light enough to
 RW> take flight easily.

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

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

Abbie could handle that but the raw marrow would make Cosmo sick so we
found it is better to steam them a bit first, and let them cool off ..

......


 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.

 HUNGRY :)

Cindy


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