Lori Hall Webboard User Reg: 06-12-2007
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Things have been going well with Kasey and feeding raw - it's been about 2 months now. His energy level is up, his coat looks great, clean teeth, etc. But every once in a while he will wake up early and throw up bone and bile. Every time that it has happened, he has had a chicken leg quarter for dinner the night before. I don't think he is crunching those up enough - it's the rib looking part of the bone that sits in his stomach all night and comes back up. Should I try to smash them some before giving them? The bone pieces he throws up are sharp and I guess I'm afraid they might hurt something!?
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My understanding is smashing bones is not a good idea. Grinding may be better. I do use a sharp cleaver to cut RMBs down to a managable size for my cats, and haven't had any issues doing that.
While bones coming back up can be disturbing, it can also be looked at as a testament to how well a dog is equipped to deal with such things.
2 months is still early. If this doesn't happen ALL the time and become a huge inconvenience to you, then I would look at it as a sign that his system does exactly what it should with an offending object.
I have one who occasionally throws up a bit of bone and/or bile in the morning. It doesn't alarm me as I figure his body is taking care of itself .
I do find that it doesn't seem to happen if I feed him early enough that I can walk him about an hour after he eats. My feeling is that the exercise/movement aids in digestion by moving things along in the digestive tract. If a dogs is throwing something up it most likely has not made its way out of the stomach, so if in fact walking aids the movement it might help.
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Throwing up bone in the morning
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