Steak,chop and other cooked bones can be dangerous because cooking makes the bones hard and splintery. Steak bones also have been sawn into a small format that allows the dog to bite off(splintery) chunks and swallow them rather than knawing them as he would get with a big bone or pulverizing them with smaller (fowl) bones. Keep in mind that wild canines ingest alot of roughage in the form of hair and feathers that pad the bone in its journey thru the digestive tract. chicken and turkey wing,neck and backs are a safer bet. I would avoid steak bones etc.
Just Monday @6:30am PST. We have a Coyote problem here right now. It's too dry. They'll lick the sweat off your forehead while you relax by the pool. I've started crating my two dogs inside this weekend to keep the barking down.
I get where you are coming from now Ringsport!You might want to start feeding those coyotes more steak bones... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />
Great Idea! I could probably recruit PETA members to help spread the cooked steak bones for the poor undernurished Coyote population.
I suppose I have strayed far enough off topic for this thread. Adios..
The whole point of feeding bones to your dogs is so they can extract the calcium from them. When you cook bones, you take all the calcium out and only leave the brittle part of the bone (from cooking) for them, so other than some 'recreation' there is nothing valuable from cooked bones.
Dogs when they eat the raw bones, extract the calcium out leaving 'powder' dust of the bone that is left. That is why dogs who eat lots of bone have white stools that crumble when stepped on.
If however you are seeing parts of bone in your dogs stool then you need to help the dogs body extract more from the bone. You can do that several ways. First, grind the bone so that it is easier to digest (here I am thinking mostly of the chicken bones). The other thing you can do is add enzymes to your dogs food to help them digest it better.
Usually once your dog is used to eating bone (usually from a raw diet) their bodies start to function better and you have less problems with digestion.
I NEVER give my dog a cooked bone of any kind. Raw is better. Also, of all of the cooked steak bones you could give your dog IMO a T-bone is the worst. Remember, cooked will splinter and uncooked will not. My dogs get lots of raw beef and chicken bones.
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