you can boil SOUP bones first, but NEVER EVER feed other kinds of bones that have been cooked in any way first. raw bones are soft and pliable but cooked bones are hard brittle and they splinter. I gave my dogs a store bought bone once, it was smoked, within seconds it was broken into sharp, swallowable size peices so I took it away. the nylabones are even worse ending up with needle sharp spikes all over the the peices that the dogs would break off.

and dragondawg the toxins ARE in the kibble.. thats the whole point, kibble is packed full of fillers and chemicals and digests very slowly, while raw diets digest in seconds, my dogs have to potty seconds after the finish eating. my dogs throw up their food or get the runs also if they are under a lot of stress, so basicly if they are going to be in a stressful situation we dont feed them till AFTER something stressful.