HI JIm,

Jim White wrote in a message to Richard Webb:

JW> I know some folks who raise Huskies and feed ONLY a raw diet.  A
JW> thawed plucked whole chicken is not an uncommon meal.  As it was
JW> explained to me, the cooking makes the bones brittle and subject to
JW> splintering.

THat's often as I've thought from what I"ve heard.  It's the cooking
that makes them brittle.

 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.
 
 RW> ROxy reached up, snatched it out of my hand in midpass
 RW> and gulped it down, big end first.  I swear that drumstick never touched
 RW> teeth.

JW> I would not be surprised.  The Huskie loving neighbor once looked
JW> out to see a squirrel tail sticking out of his large male's mouth. 
JW> When asked to "drop it", the dog swallowed and the squirrel was
JW> gone.  It never caused any problems, so apparently, they have an
JW> enzyme that can break down the raw bone. 

I"m not surprised.  IT surprises me the way those big dogs can eat
stuff like that and never show any ill effects.

Regards,
           Richard
--- timEd 1.10.y2k+