I watched the video/report and it is very sad and a bit scary, but I really don't think they are necessarily stupid/irresponsible people. I have given my pups chews and then I often will read or work or watch TV. I'm home with them and in the same room, but I'm not actually watching every bite they take and even if I was if they suddenly bit off a bigger chunk than they should it could be swallowed before I could do anything about it. I've given greenies a couple times and they are very easy to bite chunks off, they are more a treat than a chew (such as bullies or bones) in my eye.

I do just think it's tragic, they are loving owners just wanting to spoil their furkids and give them a special treat and then that happens. The scary thing about some of those greenie type treats and similar things is if they chomp off too big a chunk and it swells some in their intestines, there's no way to know about it until it's too late. As the vet in the report said, dogs don't really CHEW their food per se before swallowing, not like a person does. Their jaws don't move side to side to grind things down. They may chomp some things into smaller pieces but not to the fine "mush" that we do before we swallow (sorry for the image there! ). Tasha chomps a bit but Tommy inhales his kibble without swallowing. I give them each a boiled egg sometimes, Tasha munches hers and Tommy swallows his whole lol.

Anyway, I honestly think with all the greenies given it probably IS a rare occurrance.. (the same thing can easily happen with rawhide too) but it's enough to make me nervous to risk it, you never know what may happen.