Replying to a message of Jim White to Carol Shenkenberger:

 JW> You can also by cow knuckle bones at some of the grocery stores.  Boil
 JW> one of those for him and it will keep him busy for hours.  We do this
 JW> if we're going to be out for 4-6 hours and it DOES keep them busy!

I don't boil the things, I just give one to the dog.  Unfortunately, many if not most
grocery stores, especially the big chains, use only prepackaged meat and don't have
bones available.  The 'Hy Vee' store in Red Oak (and other places) is one of those,
its competitor 'Fareway' has butchers in the meat department and does have bones -
they also package customers' purchases in white 'butcher paper' like they used to do
back when I was a kid.

I don't think anybody gives the bones away anymore, they take them out of
the discard pile/container and package them just like any other meat
purchase - complete with
weight and price.

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