These can cause contamination and toxic poisoning depending on how it is manufactured and how sensitive your dog is. Another potential hazard is the amount of chemicals in the hide.While these treats can be great in distracting your dog, there are alternatives and other options in order to avoid chocking or blockage.If the pieces broken down are too large, it might cause choking that can lead to death.This is very painful for the dog and most of the time, surgery will be needed.However, these treats cannot be digested, so it forces the dog to pass out the exact same size your dog swallowed, which might vary because the hides, depending on the manufacturer, might swell up in the dog’s stomach. Eventually, the constant chewing and saliva coating will soften these chews and make them easier to break down and swallow. Rawhide chews can pose a terrifying risk of choking and blockage.Maybe too much, our pet food budget has doubled. (I can never say no to a cat) I’m trying to feed the best and still feed my human boys too. Somehow I ended up with 4 cats and 2 dogs. I guess the days where it was recommended to only feed dogs kibble and to find one they liked and stick with it are over. But, prices did seemed cheaper than Mud Bay. I’ll have to say I was a little grossed out. I also checked out the raw food website that was recommended. im hoping they will grow out of the chewing stage some day. And you know how they are about eating everything in site. But everyone says the one definitely looks like he has some blood hound also. They have swallowed whole socks! We were told they are lab/retriever mix. I’m definitely gonna keep an eye on them. Of course they loved them and woke up this morning looking for them! They are so aggressive, I was worried they would break a tooth! I will try the turkey necks later this week. But, I did go to our local Mud Bay Pet food store yesterday and bought two marrow bones and a bag of turkey necks. Just grew up thinking all bones are dangerous for dogs. Hi Hound Dog Mom- I guess that all makes sense. RMBs that are completely consumable (like turkey necks and chicken backs) are nature’s toothbrush! My dogs get RMBs every night at dinner. Animals in the wild obviously must eat raw poultry bones all the time and they aren’t dying from intestinal perforations of blockages. When bones are raw – this includes poultry bones – they are more pliable, a lot less likely to splinter and digest better. A dog is definitely less likely to be able to chew up a heavy bone and experience problems, but a large dog or a powerful chewer could definitely break off a piece of a large cooked bone and then experience the same sort of problems that are experienced with cooked poultry bones. The reason cooked poultry bones generally cause more problems than larger cooked bones is because they’re so small that dogs can crunch them up more easily, swallow them, and then experience problems such as intestinal perforations and blockages. Cooked bones become brittle which causes them to splinter when chewed and not digest as well. Some people think only cooked poultry bones are dangerous, but even those big cooked ham bones or marrow bones are dangerous. Raw bones are safe for dogs and any cooked bone is dangerous for dogs. That’s actually a very common question! Most people are under the impression that all poultry bones are dangerous for dogs – this isn’t true. I guess I meant chew treats though, as the bully stick is even a tiny bit hard for her, so I don’t think she would do well with a bone. I got her a bully stick though, and she absolutely loves it! It doesn’t seem to be bothering her stomach, and she’s had the same one for about 3 days, and only eaten like 20% of it, so the little fat content it does have doesn’t worry me to much. Since we were doing the blood test, and it had been about 6 months since her last one I decided just to do the fullest test to be sure, the only thing that came back was slightly elevated pancreas enzyme. The vet was concerned about possible bile in the stool, as she didn’t see any blood, so we did a blood test to check on her liver. She had loose orangish stool for a day or two, and then none at all, so we decided to go back to the vet. The vet sent us home with medicine and said to put her on chicken and rice for a few days. We had just gotten a new kitten so we thought maybe she got into her food. She had extremely bad gas one day (like every minute) so I got her into the vet.
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