Hi Mark,

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 ;)

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

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

Now, being hollow, it's liable to splinter.  Especially when cooked. My
ROxy the street rottie used to scavenge for food and ate all sorts of
chicken bones.  HEnce some of the intestinal problems she had when we first
adopted her. NO matter how careful we were one slipped by occasionally.

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


Regards,
           Richard
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