[Lovetodream88]

Originally Posted by celstu1

In all the years Ive been here and all that I've learned, I'd never give my dogs soft hollow bones that come from birds, they will splinter and can lodge in their intestines and cause serious damage or death. I have, one time, many years ago, on a night they were getting a bath, gave them each a whole raw chicken leg, meat still on. They had NO idea what to do with it. Didn't get much off of it, and after a 1/2 hour I was pretty grossed out and threw it away and gave them baths. Never did it again.

Pork bones/products are high in fat and can cause pancreatitis. Another disease, totally preventable, that I would not want to pay a vet to fix.

I have given steak bones a few times, washed off with a little meat left on them and they love them. I also used to, haven't in many years, given soup bones that had the marrow still in them once or twice, I got small ones from the butcher. I didn't like the smell and greasiness in their beards afterwards and would have to bathe.

So now they only get bully sticks.


Nothing was ever given unsupervised. My boys do 'hunt' as well but mainly frogs and crickets. Dexter eats the crickets whole, Fletcher loves frogs but once he kills them (by accident of course LOL) he is all done with them, never tried to eat them. Neither has ever seen a snake that I'm aware of.

Be careful with them eating crickets they can carry tape worm.