Rawhides are nothing more than leather! It is not digestable and if your dogs manages to swallow a piece large enough, it will not be broken down, and could easily end up needing to be surgically removed from the stomach or bowel. If it manages to get lodged in the gut, and is there for several days, you can easily end up with a "dead gut", where the pressure caused in the walls of the intestine, cut off the blood supply to a portion of the gut, and it dies.....and you have a life threatening situation. That is NOT a risk I want to offer my dogs. I just think there are much safer things to satisfy my dogs chewing requirements....even those nasty bully sticks that they adore, can be digested if apiece is chewed up and swallowed. |