Taggart is chewing wood!

[wolf_Q]

No I don't think you're overreacting, I'd be upset if my dogs had a rawhide unsupervised too. I do give my dogs rawhide sometimes but its always supervised...works nice to keep them busy during movies. I'm sure Taggart will be fine though.

[Taz_Zoee]

Thank you Amy. Well, he is fine. He ate about half of the bone. And it looks like he began to chew on his bed in the crate. GREAT!!
That's why I'd prefer the Kong. It's not something he can "eat". He can chew, but not eat it. GRRR!!! I will make sure to get this through Bruce's head.

[Medusa]

When I had my peke-a-poos years ago, I regularly gave them rawhide to chew on but I hadn't been paying attention one time and Charmin chewed the rawhide in the middle just enough so that it would bend. She swallowed the thing whole! She didn't choke on it but she really did damage to her insides when she passed it. She had to have surgery as a result. I felt absolutely horrible about it and I was always there to supervise their chew time after that. So, no, you're not overreacting.

[Taz_Zoee]

Thanks Mary.
I put the other half of the rawhide on Taggarts crate last night when I got home from work. And when I got home from school it was gone. I don't know if Bruce gave it to him or he jumped up and got it. It wasn't really "out of reach". Darn it!! Oh well, he's okay. And I'm going to make sure he doesn't do this again.

[kallisto4529]

i got nothing for you as far as the wood chewing...lol but the rawhide i agree should never be unsupervised, we never leave reilly alone with his, it is always when we are here and if he chews to much i take it up for another day.

[Taz_Zoee]

Thank you Marti. That's right, I take it away when it gets to be so small they could choke on it. Well, he will not do that again. He knows how upset I was this last time he did it.