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#163975 - 11/20/2007 01:36 PM |
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I did a long streak of knuckle bones, and I did notice a hint of wear on a tooth or two.
Back in the days of wanting to keep Señor Snout busy, I instead opted for bully sticks. It's just bull wang, which is all tendon. Much easier on the teeth.
http://www.preenpets.com/products.htm
The pack of 250 (12") is the best price I found so far. $1.19 per foot.
Can someone enlighten me on the difference between bully sticks and rawhides? I have heard very bad things about rawhides from dogs choking on them to them being cured in arsenic.
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Re: Getting bones from butcher?
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#163977 - 11/20/2007 01:40 PM |
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Rawhide is terrible for dogs, no matter what they have found out lately (while those are even more reasons NOT to give rawhide). They can cause massive obstructions if the dog swallows a big enough hunk of it.
Bully sticks are made out of bull penis with the tendon, dried like jerkey so they are completely okay to give your dogs. 
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#163984 - 11/20/2007 01:58 PM |
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Hey Carol,
Do you know anyone who makes really big, thick bully sticks? My dog can inhale the skinny, average-sized ones in like 15 minutes. Then he doesn't eat for a day 
I'm thinking an over-sized stick might take him longer to chew? It would be great to give him something safer than a knucklebone that he could gnaw on inside.
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#163985 - 11/20/2007 02:00 PM |
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Let me look in my magazine that I order out of and then I will let you know. I think I have one here at the office.
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#163986 - 11/20/2007 02:23 PM |
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Sarah
I found these online, is this what you are thinking about?
http://www.bullysticksonline.com/servlet/the-172/Free-Range-Dog-Chews/Detail
However I do not have my book here to see if they have them...I am sure they do, and I am pretty sure the cost is lower.....I will PM you when I get home tonight.....
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#164001 - 11/20/2007 04:38 PM |
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Hey Carol,
Do you know anyone who makes really big, thick bully sticks? My dog can inhale the skinny, average-sized ones in like 15 minutes. Then he doesn't eat for a day
I'm thinking an over-sized stick might take him longer to chew? It would be great to give him something safer than a knucklebone that he could gnaw on inside.
It's not the size of the bully stick.......
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#164005 - 11/20/2007 04:43 PM |
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We got a pack of bully sticks when there was a free sample pack offered a while back. I had forgotten about them.
Ginger (one year old Australian Shepherd) definitely tries- and succeeds- in chewing some of the bone so I'm sure at some point, she'd break a tooth. We got a pack of bones from the butcher a while back and it had many different types of bones. Some were thigh type bones cut into 4" or so sections. Others were larger in diameter and cut into narrower sections (like 2"). She loved eating out the marrow. I would freeze them and she could work at it for a while.
I think I'll try frozen p-nut butter or cream cheese in kong. I didn't think of freezing them (but I did with the bones... go figure).
Thanks.
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#164009 - 11/20/2007 05:15 PM |
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Has anyone besides me given these things (bully sticks) and had a dog become sick? I gave one to a teething puppy last year, and ended up with a dog so sick I had to give IV fluids.
I threw the rest of them away and contacted the company. The owner told me that he has never had anyone contact him with this kind of issues but I figured my raw fed dogs would have no problems with this????
Needless to say, I don't give them to my dogs.
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#164013 - 11/20/2007 05:32 PM |
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That is interesting and something I will watch for, but I have never had a problem. I only give them, maybe once a week though as a special treat.
And for pups I snap them in half with tree trimming shears.
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#164014 - 11/20/2007 05:33 PM |
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Hey Carol,
Do you know anyone who makes really big, thick bully sticks? My dog can inhale the skinny, average-sized ones in like 15 minutes. Then he doesn't eat for a day
I'm thinking an over-sized stick might take him longer to chew? It would be great to give him something safer than a knucklebone that he could gnaw on inside.
It's not the size of the bully stick.......  
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