by Gretchen956 27 Replies latest social family
I haven't been a dog owner in many many many moons but I thought bones were dangerous because they could crack them and swallow the bone splinters - especially if the bone had been cooked.
and none of my friends who have dogs use those rawhide things - most have had bad experiences with them and the dogs
*edited cuz I got misdirected somehow*
cooked bones are more dangerous than raw bones. Cooked bones are drier and less elastic. When they get crunched by the dog they splinter into shards. When raw bone gets crunched the pieces are softer, less splintery and more easily digested.
The real danger in giving bones to a pup (besides cooked ones) is if you give too large a bone for the pup to crunch up, they will chew and chew anyways until they crack a tooth. Not so good. Or if you give the dog too much bone and not enough meat/marrow. Not enough moisture to ummm.... pass through easily.
poor doggie. some dogs do okay with rawhides some don't. I give them to my pup occasionally, but either small enough for him to chew up and eat easily, or big enough so he can't eat any of it.
hope he (and you ) feel better soon.
O
Don't feel bad Sherry. Some owners get away with rawhide, you didn't.
You can feel bad if you do it again with the same result.
Raw bones are popular with Kiwi dog owners. Makes for a more passive dog by our experience.
Lets face it, cooked and processed stuff was not what they evolved, or were created, to consume, (like us I guess), so we are bound to have some muck ups along the way.
Pets need raw food :-)
Hows your dog today, Gretchen?
Is he getting better now?
Special K
yeah what Special K said ...
The good news is he doesn't throw anything up that he eats/drinks. The bad news is the diahhrea continues. I was up with him most of the night again (in and out from the backyard) and somewhere in all that I decided for some ungodly reason that it might be a good idea to let him stay out of his crate and close our bedroom door. I was thinking in my sleep deprived state, that he would ask to go out. Well I woke up about 4:30 a.m. and stepped in runny poop. Nice. So here I was again this morning cleaning up more, this time in our bedroom while Kim slept through it all! I'm staying home with him today and renting a shampooer to try to get a deeper clean, I hope it doesn't stain. The carpet in the bedroom is new.
He's eating this morning though, so thats a good sign.
By the way, when we first got him he ate one of those little cat toys, the little mice that are made of fur. It blocked him for a day or so and he would not eat or drink. We had him to the vet who told us to watch him and if he didn't pass it in a day or so that she would have to operate to get it out. Luckily for us it did pass. We scrambled to ensure the cat's toys were out of his reach. But he doesn't have those symptoms at all this time so I don't think thats an issue.
The vet told me last time to give him sticky white rice when he has diahhrea, so I'll be cooking up a pot of that today too. He's perkier than yesterday so I think he's gradually on the mend.
Sherry
This is my 2nd dalmatian, and both have problems with bones and them splintering. The rope toys are appreciated, and often I take a tennis ball, put it into an old athletic sock, tie it up with a few knots, and the dog chews on it for hours. I let her feast on grass whenever she wants to and she seems to regularly purge her system once a week after chewing grass and weeds. Love them dogs!
