I too, after reading the dangers of rawhide, will never allow Daisy near them. She came home once with one... who knows where she got it! - and I freaked and threw it out. She thought I was crazy but why risk it? There are so many other great things for her to chew on. She is absolutely in love with the bone my father ordered online for her for Christmas. It's called a "cattle leg bone"... name is sel-explanatory, I guess, and it is stuffed with something that's supposed to taste like peanut butter but let me tell you, it doesn't! Hehe, anyway it's a long hollow white sterilized bone, and the "peanut butter" isn't messy or anything, its the consistency of... hmmm it's very different... very hard cheese maybe? LOL I don't know. Anyway, she has had it since Christmas and only the nibbled edges show she has even touched it, when in fact she's been gnawing at it for two months. I am not sure how much it cost but I don't believe it was too expensive.