Ok I wasn't sure where to put this question so I apologize if it's the wrong folder. Anyway - as we all know it's now the end of Easter day and I've already used my ham bone to make some bean soup - my question is - is it OK to give my dog (APBT if that makes a diff) the ham bone? I worry about bones due to their risk of causing problems. Thanks in advance to anyone who takes the time to answer!
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Ok I wasn't sure where to put this question so I apologize if it's the wrong folder. Anyway - as we all know it's now the end of Easter day and I've already used my ham bone to make some bean soup - my question is - is it OK to give my dog (APBT if that makes a diff) the ham bone? I worry about bones due to their risk of causing problems. Thanks in advance to anyone who takes the time to answer!
No.
That's a cooked bone. In fact, it's double-cooked now, since the ham was cooked and then the bone was cooked again in the soup.
You don't want to give cooked (or smoked, or even cured) bones.
My dogs would really want that, too -- I'd probably take the trash containing it right to the dumpster. If they smelled that bacon-y smell, they might "forget" that there's no trash-diving allowed.
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This might be a good place to say too that Easter, like Thanksgiving, is one of those "acute pancreatitis" holidays, when many dogs are hospitalized with inflamed guts after scarfing down the leftover trimmings and fat from the holiday dinner.
Dogs don't have the coronary artery challenges that humans do (with relation to dietary animal fat), but dogs are not designed to eat a big bunch of cooked fat.
Lots of people think that fat is the acute pancreatitis problem, but it's usually *cooked* fat, sometimes in combo with obesity, diabetes, an infection, etc.
Cooked (or rancid, as in sun-baked roadkill) fat in large amounts is a real challenge to the system of an animal who's designed to eat raw meat, fat, and bones. Cooked fat doesn't even have the same chemical makeup as raw fat.
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You don't want to give cooked (or smoked, or even cured) bones.
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Connie,
I have been giving my pup those pig's ears and knuckle bones you get at the Tractor Supply in the dog good section. Are they considered smoked or cured? And are they bad for them for chewies. I stopped giving her rawhide when I read about it being bad on here.
Thank you folks - I didn't know that about cooked bones but now that I think about it there seems to be some sort of 'knowledge' back up in there that makes that sound familiar. Already threw it away - too bad poor Molly would have loved to have had it.
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