It sounds like you may be a new small or tiny dog-owner and if so, consider my story below. If you have long experience with tiny or very small dogs, you know all of this already, though but am posting just in case and for any future readers. I try to pass along the warning as often as I can. It is so awful when it happens to your dog - it kind of marks you for life.
Since I had a little 3 lb. grown Yorkie literally almost choke to death on a piece of chew she had bitten off and tried to swallow, I only allow my dog to chew on something I am holding onto by one end or he is within arm's reach and I am watching him constantly. If he gets near to biting off a piece, it gets removed from him, cut off and he may or may not want to start back chewing after that. He loves to chew and I don't want to deny him the pleasure he seems to get from it, but I am so careful. And I think the smaller the dog, the more likely they are to choke or have a blockage for a chew made for larger dogs. The one my dog almost died over did say it was for small dogs but she was tiny and when she bit off the end and tried to swallow it, it stuck tight with no air able to get past. She soon stopped breathing, passed out and I had to breathe for her as I drove her to the vet.
__________________  Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |