I just HAVE to ask: turkey neck bones? In regard to bones, I thought only beef bones and never poultry or pork? Interesting.
Does it make a difference if you have a dog who doesn't take much time to chew their food (I would think)????
While I ask these questions, I'm also considering the difference between wild canids and domesticated ones.
Poultry is a HUGE part of the raw diet for the majority of dogs. I don't feed pork bones only due to the fact that the ones available locally are too sharp. I think you might be thinking of the danger of COOKED bones. NO cooked bones are recommended.
I have one gulper and one who enjoys taking his time to eat. Some people who have gulpers elect to partially crush the bones, I don't and have not had any problems, but this dog does get smaller sized portions.
I'm not aware of any significant differences in the digestive tracts of a wild dog and a domesticated dog, except that too many domesticated dogs have problems related to eating some kibbles (aka: crap in a bag). There may be some which I am not aware of and I know those knowledgeable will chime in.
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I have found that my dog, who can be tough, is more even tempered when he eats raw food than he is when he eats kibble.
Betty, this is amazing. Of all the benefits I've read and seen with my own eyes of feeding raw, I've never heard this! You obvisously feel confident the change you noticed was diet related? Any idea what might have been in the kibble which was having an adverse effect? (Don't mean to pepper you with questions!)
It's common, actually. The glycemic response from the kibble starch is eliminated with a raw diet.
Of course, the act of eating RMBs may be in and of itself a calming thing to an animal created to do so.
But black-and-white diet-info-stuff tells us that dogs who are sensitive to blood sugar surge-and-crash (the same one we humans are subject to) will indeed have a sugar-rush-type reaction to starch-heavy commercial foods.
"The purpose of this study was to determine how the differences in carbohydrate (starch and dietary fiber, soluble and insoluble), protein and fat content of complete (and complex) foods given to healthy dogs in a single meal on a normoenergetic basis modify their postprandial plasma glucose and insulin responses." (Bold mine)
The syndrome in dogs of reaction to refined carbs has some results in common with the human "metabolic syndrome" (or what years ago was called "syndrome x").
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