You must all have very nice-natured dogs as I wouldn't dare leave bones lying about with Izzy and Parker as although they get on well 99% of the time I know that were there bones lying around Izzy would duff Parker up over them

Yeah kinda, when I am out Mia is crated but Ben is in the house with bones about if they are any there. Although I might stop that now because the other day Mia got a splinter of bone trapped accross the roof of her mouth between her teeth - she was really good, let me take it out then grabbed it from me and raced off to chew it some more

I can only do it if there is no meat left on the bone, if it was real 'food' then mia would be stressing all the time that ben might get too close to hers

No time really! Being retrievers ours don't generally put a bone down and come back to it they will just keep on going and I worry about their teeth. As they are both rather food oriented it would turn into a competition rather easily = not very good.