|
Location: East Midlands, UK
Joined: Mar 2006
Posts: 8,775
|
|
Originally Posted by
Fluffypup
Boris is much the same with smaller bones like chicken. He doesn't swallow them whole so no choking happening, but gives one crunch to break it and then swallows. This results in horrible very sharp pieces of bone in his poo which I've decided is too dangerous. So he gets chicken mince (bone in) and he chews on lamb ribs and oxtail which, because he takes longer to chew, seems to give the enzymes time to be produced and I never see bone in his poo when he has these.
The bones will not do any harm ... they will just pass through the gut, but the dog will be getting more nutrition if he does chew them up of course. Many people do feed raw mince with minced up bone in there, and that's fine of course, although he won't be getting any dental benefit. I can quite understand why you would be nervous though about the bits of chicken bone ... being hollow, they are much easier for a greedy dog to just swallow, and really won't do any harm despite the sharpness, but nevertheless you are very sensibly giving him the lamb ribs and oxtail, from which he will get dental benefit of course.