Jennifer Marshal Webboard User Reg: 08-02-2007
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Ok, so I should not give them, or just keep an eagle eye on the dogs when they start to get down to the bone? The bones I buy and give have a fair amount of meat on them, and I give them mostly frozen as it slows the dogs down a bit.
So, for driven chewers, whats the option?
I have been leaning towards vertebrea of smaller game like deer, but lamb would be a good size if you want to buy it. With a good amount of meat on them I consider them a meal, not a rec bone.
They are a good shape for teeth cleaning with the dog needing to chew all sorts of ways to get all the meat off. Most of the bone, much of the time all of it, is edible for my dog as well. Though with some of the larger vertebrea I take the hard middle away.
Thanks Jennifer, they do get vertebrea once in a while when my suppliers (hunters) remember not to toss the spines and rib cages. My dogs actually get a lot of venison when I feed raw (which I am starting to again now, I just bought a gigantic freezer!) and most of it is meat with no bone so I buy whole turkeys in bulk during the holidays, and the dogs get every part of the turkeys.
I will just try to remind them all next year or go to camp every day! Until then I will look into finding some lamb vertebrea
But how are your dog's teeth? I'd go by that. If the dog is collecting plaque even on a raw diet, then I would do something: I would get the gumline-squirty stuff or the fingertip brush with flavored toothpaste*. It's the outside surface that has the problems (because of the relative lack of saliva washing them off), and the outside surface is by far the easiest to clean, with either method.
*C.E.T. is the brand I have. So far, the shrimp-flavored toothpaste has gone over very well.
But I rarely use them; I have them because of adopted dogs usually having horrible teeth when they first come.
i have the CET chicken flavoured....luc seems to like it, but meh with the results so far. his teeth cleaned and are staying clean on raw except for the top bits. sigh.
thanks for all the info about what bones are safe to feed! i think we're generally okay, but i am going to be more careful from now on since luc is a cruncher (teagan's far more delicate about eating her bones)
Natalya Zahn Webboard User Reg: 12-22-2006
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I have a foster here who actually ATE a cow femur piece. I had all the dogs separated into ex-pens in the back yard, but had one more dog than pen, so the one guy was loose in the yard. When I came out to check an hour later, the loose dog's bone was GONE and I found a he had a mouthful of mush. I could not believe it. He did this twice (the first time I thought I must be mistaken, he must have buried his bone). That was the first and last two times I gave cow bones to my dogs.
My boyfriend's childhood beagle would do this to marrow bones - he'd just DEVOUR them! Literally, nothing left behind. This dog never had a broken tooth (that they know of ), go figure, but he may have done damage to his digestive system from the bone shards he ingested (based on some health issues that started cropping up) - only well into adulthood though.
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Re: Bones, Teeth, and Safety
[Re: Jennifer Coulter ]
#166479 - 12/03/2007 09:07 PM 
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), go figure, but he may have done damage to his digestive system from the bone shards he ingested (based on some health issues that started cropping up) - only well into adulthood though. 
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