Tug-rope
 

I threw out the tugging rope that came in a bag of dog toys. (It looks like a short rope with a knot at each end. The rope is unravelled after the knot to make a fringe at each end.) Though it is not dangerous, it sure is annoying. Riley, and Piper before him, both got pieces of thread stuck between their front teeth. You can see the thread but it is almost impossible to get out. I guess to the dog it must feel like we feel with cornsilk between our teeth!

So nice of you
 

Thank you so much for the info and also for the offer on the order. I would like to try what you are talking about. Let me know what to do. Where to send the money to. Thanks again sweetie.... :animal36

My yorkie chews on greenies but only because I give her one like once every 2 months and I watch her with it. I think greenies are only really bad if you give them a lot of them because they can take a while to digest. However, nylabones work just as well and get chloe just as excited as greenies so I prefer nylabones. I like to buy the flavored rubbery ones.
I agree that rawhides are bad.

How come they can't have raw hide bones, I get my bella thumb thick pig raw hide it looks like a cinnimin bun but long and she loves them once they get to small i replace it with a longer one and she is there for days. She has never taken her biting out on my furniture or other stuff. I hear you can give greenies then i hear no why is that can anyone explain for me please

Seems the only treats safefor these little babies are Cookies anbd dogbiscuits. For chews the Nyla bones, hard or soft. Most everything else is either a chocking of digestive risk.Everyone needs to decide what they feel safe giving them and has the sotmach to face the possible result. Yorkies are not like any other regular dog...they are tiny and delicate.

As for Greenies, the dangers fromj them to any size dogs was plastrered all over TV and the news reports a couple of weeks ago.

" Please read on and share this with your group. Also, Linda - we used to cut our Greenies up, too.


Our wonderful dog, a healthy, 4-year old rescued Miniature Daschund named, “Burt”, died July 25, 2005. He died from a pet treat called a Greenie.
Burt was promptly admitted to an emergency hospital after vomiting blood, bile and collapsing on the local vet's examination table. The doctor suspected an intestinal blockage and recommended exploratory surgery. What the doctor found inside of Burt was 3 1/2 feet of necrotic (dead) small intestines, as well as the "foreign body obstruction" behind the problem. The “obstruction” was none other than a well-chewed, partially digested portion of a Greenie.

Both the large mass of dead intestines and the Greenie were surgically removed from Burt. The Greenie was saved and later placed in my hands. It was rubber-like and spongy. It had absorbed liquids and had expanded in size about 25-35%. It was the "toothbrush" end. My wife recognized the ribbed contours of the toothbrush immediately. But, it took me a bit longer to recognize it because it was well chewed (like they say it has to be).

Burt tried as hard as he could but he just couldn’t hang on. He turned septic, got pneumonia and died 48 hours after the surgery with my wife and I by his side - after his 3rd cardiac arrest. The trauma was indeed too much for him and unfortunately the damage caused by the Greenie had already been done. Burt died from a Greenie. His problems would not have happened if it weren't for the wretched "treat" obstructing his intestines in the first place.

Prompted by our outrage over the unnecessary death of my dog, we immediately contacted Greenies and they investigated. We shared medical records with them. They spoke with our vet and then with me. They can't find any fault in our actions, or the doctor’s actions, or the timeline of events - at least that's what Dr. Brad Quest (Greenies on-staff veterinarian) told me over the phone. I voiced my strong concerns about the product and among other things, I told him that the product needed to be recalled and reformulated. To this day, they have not responded to this request.

And all this from a product that comes with veterinarian recommendations and "highly digestible" and "edible" claims on its packaging and website. We read the packaging. We followed the instructions. We had been feeding him this way for at least 1 1/2 years.

Burt died 3 years to-the-day that he came into our lives. He is dearly missed by his family. He is not replaceable. Burt will not die in vain. Neither will the other dogs and their owners that I am aware of that have suffered from this product.

Please think twice about this product. Make smart choices for your pets. Why take any risk at all. Our new motto for the company is this: Greenies: your dog can live without them.

Sincerely,

Mike "

I used to use them for Chloe, once in a great while she would get a tiny piece off. I've heard before of the choking hazards, but she loves them, isn't much of a chewer so I thought, why not until.... she choked once - that's all it took. I can't imagine life without her, it scared me have to death & I am a geriatric nurse, so I shouldn't have been that scared but I was :eek: No more for Chloe those nyla bones that Stormy (quote #22) spoke of. Also the rib eye bone is ok for them, messy as heck when you first open them but she loves them and can not choke on them. The rib eye was actually reccomended by a Yorkie Breeder. True they done hold the appeal to our babies that the pigs ears or rawhide do but then again if we continued I figure we would never get that chance to watch them enjoy anything :(

Well one thing for sure, Chloe still goes nuts over those cat balls I spoke of month's ago. I can watch her flounce around for hours with those and it's too funny, she hops after it like a bunny type hop :aimeeyork

Greenies
 

As to what Stormy said and the article she has here, I am amazed with the stories going around about Greenies, they are still on the store shelves and dog store manager and owners claim they aren't aware of what has happened.(not sure yet if they are choosing ignorance via profit or not) I have read at least 5 other articles that took dogs lives from here to New York (My sister sends me the articles all the time) So sad was the pets that did die, but what about the article with the Dashound ?? Hot Dog doggie. His owner got to the vet, then to surgery in time and they took out a ball of greenies. The man said it look just like the multi-colored old fashioned type of carpet padding rolled into a ball but recognized it as a greenie immediately when the vet showed him. That Doctor did a study and found it was only 80% digestable even tho at the time the bag said 100% digestable. AND still on the shelves yet! Well I recently heard that the government may be getting invloved to govern over this type of pet food/treats the same as they do human stuff. I sure hope so, I used to enjoy buying Chloe everything, Now I stick to the rib eye bones or Pedigrees Training Treats (which are teeny tiny soft dog bones, used to train large dogs BUT are the perfect size dog bone treat for our guys & gals)