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Originally Posted by McheleM  Deer antlers are made of bone....
I won't let our dogs have them because I'm afraid they would think it's okay to chew on our mounts we have (we hunt and have several European mounts around) |
I have several sets of "racks" laying around our house in plain reach of my dogs. My girls have never shown any interest in them. I never really did get the antler as a treat thing because in all my years of living on a farm I have never seen dogs naturally attracted to them. Since antlers are shed annually they are commonly found and hunted here. I'd think if they were a natural "treat" coyotes would gobble them up once shed. It was common for our dogs to drag up a dear head and antlers carcass too (because they are always left behind by predators after the deer was killed by auto or hunters or even the carcass disposed of by hunters) and just leave it lay as if to say look what I found, but they never sat and chewed on the antlers at all. So I am sure if I were to cut one up and put it before my dogs over and over they may show some interest, but it just doesn't seem as "natural" as it claims to be.