shadow will bite if her bone is taken away too lol she loves the things. the rest of my dogs are so used to eating bones every night that they really dont care. kibble is a lot doffernt then bones, a bone tastes a LOT better them kibble, so I dont find it supirising at all that he would not want to give it up! by the way my dogs have eaten cooked porkchop bones plenty of times without any problems