Give a dog a Bone ? ! ? ! ? ! *pics

[GreyhoundGirl]

Raw ! ? ! ? Really, I thought they should be cooked. Why would a cow bone splinter? I didn't know cow bones splinter ! Do they? what? this is confusing, It doesn't seem, healthy to feed them uncooked. It wasn't really the bone she was chewing, just the meat off of it.

Here's the story:

My family bought a dead cow. ( not as gross as it sounds, it was frozen ) We got the bones for free. One night while cooking a steak, my dad thought it would be a good idea to give her a bone. So it was on the BBQ for an hour, it was very burned but she liked it.

Can someone explain this? I'm confused?

[Vela]

Any bones when cooked become brittle, even cattle bones. THey shoudl be fed raw and not ingested. Cooked bones of any kind can and do splinter and can perforate the intestines. It's just best not to give cooked bones, espeically from steaks, they are already rather sharp in most cases anyway.

[GreyhoundGirl]

Ok, thanks for the advice, ( I'll use it. )

P.S. It wasn't a steak bone, that was just what we were having for dinner. it was the funny long leg bone.

[GreyhoundGirl]

Question: Will raw bones give her the "trots"?

[Lori Jordan]

Question: Will raw bones give her the "trots"?

It may give her the runs,If she is not used to Raw,My guys when i switched them too Raw a couple years ago at first they had the runs,different foods can do different things too dogs,My guys anyways.

[CathyBogart]

Question: Will raw bones give her the "trots"?

It's possible, but cooked bones can do that too.

[GreyhoundGirl]

It's possible, but cooked bones can do that too.

It did.

[bckrazy]

Cooked beef bones are not only dangerous as far as splintering, but they can also wreak havoc on her teeth!!! Even Raw beef bones should be fed with care, and those are full of moisture & are much, much softer than a cooked bone - beef leg bones are very big and hard. The process of cooking a bone strips it of any moisture, marrow, softness, digestibility, etc. However, I do feel that feeding a cooked beef bone *is* better than feeding cooked bones that can be swallowed, that is extremely dangerous!

I wouldn't feed cooked bones, period. Next time, save her some raw ribs *before* you put it on the BBQ.

[zoomer]

Looks like she enjoyed that bone! It's HUGE!

[GreyhoundGirl]

I think I'll continue feeding them cooked. Yes, they can splinter, but I'm more worried about all the germs, and diseses that could be on it.

[Dorothy39]

Oh, But that expression on Jennys' face was priceless.!!!!


You posted a great thread Greyhoundgirl, and, you learned something too!!

Give Jenny a hug for me, okay? Ok