Denyce
07-01-2005, 01:29 PM
I know giving your dogs bones like in raw beef bones is not always the best thing and is controversial but I thought she might like a treat. I was at the store last weekend and there was a really nice package of beef bones. It was just two bones with tons of meat and fat on them. One of them had about 2 inches of meat around the whole outside edge. I gave one to Sequioa that night thinking she was really going to enjoy this!
Well I was in for a shock. She took it very gently from me like she always does all her treats and placed it on the floor and proceeded to try and bury it with her bed. She was her usual sweet self with her ears placed back, licking her lips and wagging her tail in her usual ladylike sweetness personified self when giving her a treat. But she wouldn't even lick it. I left her alone with it thinking she just wanted it to ripen a bit before digging in.
Later that night she brought it out of her bedroom and tried to hand it to both my husband and myself. I kept telling her to go lie down and chew her bone. When we put her to bed she still hadn't touched it. We put it in her bowl with her food when we put her to bed that night. The next morning there it lay. She hadn't even eaten the meat!:eek:
I had to toss that one out as it was getting icky smelling at that point. Later that afternoon I was putting some pieces of beef that had been marinated in a caribbean jerk marinade for about 7 hours. I had a couple of left over pieces and boy Seqouia gobbled them up. But just yesterday when I was trimming a top round she wouldn't eat the raw scraps. My Ocicat mix Trouble didn't have a problem with the raw scraps but my husky dog turned up her delicate little nose...she wanted them cooked or at least marinated before eating.
Has anyone else encountered this?
Denyce
Well I was in for a shock. She took it very gently from me like she always does all her treats and placed it on the floor and proceeded to try and bury it with her bed. She was her usual sweet self with her ears placed back, licking her lips and wagging her tail in her usual ladylike sweetness personified self when giving her a treat. But she wouldn't even lick it. I left her alone with it thinking she just wanted it to ripen a bit before digging in.
Later that night she brought it out of her bedroom and tried to hand it to both my husband and myself. I kept telling her to go lie down and chew her bone. When we put her to bed she still hadn't touched it. We put it in her bowl with her food when we put her to bed that night. The next morning there it lay. She hadn't even eaten the meat!:eek:
I had to toss that one out as it was getting icky smelling at that point. Later that afternoon I was putting some pieces of beef that had been marinated in a caribbean jerk marinade for about 7 hours. I had a couple of left over pieces and boy Seqouia gobbled them up. But just yesterday when I was trimming a top round she wouldn't eat the raw scraps. My Ocicat mix Trouble didn't have a problem with the raw scraps but my husky dog turned up her delicate little nose...she wanted them cooked or at least marinated before eating.
Has anyone else encountered this?
Denyce