tink,
We dont want to start yet another controversial thread. I think its just the way your post came across thats all. You are entitled to your opinions and your choices by all means as everyone is. Trust me all of us on this forum agree or disagree on many things but we dont bash anyone for thier choices. Yes some dogs have had bad expieriences with greenies butas has been pointed out there are many things that affect different dogs different ways. Heck my dog had a horrible reaction to carpet fresh (as have a few other dogs that i know of thru my kennel club) but does not mean someone elses dog will have the same reaction. so i guess what Im trying to say is I respect your choice concerning greenies but you should also respect everyones elses choice as well. thats all :cool: .

sue

I gave a teenie greenie (those for small dogs) to Miffy last week and she chewed and chewed til it was all gone. She seemed to enjoy it very much. Now that her teeth are getting sharper or something, she goes through the nylabone with the pokey bits all over it very quickly, so I thought this one might last longer. She seems fine, no greenish poop. The chihuahua downstairs is fine too. I think I'll go look in the pet shop if they've got other chewy things to clean her teeth.

Hmmm, btw, how do you clean your yorkie's teeth? Miffy eats dry food & canned food with chicken or egg once a week. And she has the Nylabone to chew on.

Clioe: Greenies are good for cleaning their teeth, odd that she didn't poop green though. :)

Do you brush her teeth daily? Yorkies teeth can fall out (in old age) if they are not cleaned regularly, as it's happened to some members on here.

Lucy has dry food everyday, sometimes with some fresh chicken or fish or something like that. She has as a treat about once a week a greenie or a nutrident quest (whatever our local petshop is selling at the time!) She also has a chew that the vet recommended in a mint flavour (They are called HiLife but I couldnt find them on petsmart, maybe you can only get them in UK?) to chew on whenever she wants. We clean her teeth everyday with a doggy toothpaste. She HATES a normal doggy toothbrush so we got a sort of finger mit with soft bristles on the end

http://www.petsmart.com/global/produ...=1115714952776

I found one at petsmart lol! She still hates it but she doesnt mind it so much. Also when she goes for her jabs, we get the vet to have a check over them, last year she decided that she needed to give tham a quick clean too :D

We have been giving Toto greenies ever since we first discovered that she loved them! The only problem we have ever had ... Patrick picked up the wrong size once [got the medium] and because of our ignorance we let her have one. It gave her an upset stomach ... we inspected the part of it that she hadn't finished and it was very coarse, not smooth like the small ones. I threw the others out and learned a lesson. She loves the teenie ones and we give her one a couple times a week ... she has a little "greenie" stool the next morning! :) Like someone already said, they can choke on lots of things ... we just watch Toto all the time ... she is like having an "eternal toddler"!! ;)

Teeth cleaning
 

I use PetDental toothpaste (you can get it at a petstore) and the finger-brush type of toothbrush. Syd loves the taste of the toothpaste...so it is more like a treat than a chore. Also I had the same problem with Syd going through the blue bumpy Nylabone very quickly. So we bought her the next size up and she is not killing it as fast. Plus she likes it because it is more of a challenge to chew.

Guys, the reason I cross-posted this warning in the first place was only to give Yorkie owners the knowledge that there COULD be a problem with Greenies and to give them the option to decide for themselves whether the risks involved were worth the benefits. Yes, there are benefits to giving dogs ANY chew product but there are also dangers (the same can be said regarding the controversy over raw food diets, flea and tick repellents and annual vaccinations). The purpose of Yorkietalk is simply education, so that Yorkie lovers can make informed decisions about caring for thier dogs. Posters know that when it comes to things that to me really are about the love or exploitation of Yorkies (like certain breeding practises), I am the first to get on the soap box - but this is NOT one of those cases.

This was not intended to be "controversial" and I apologize if anyone was offended to hurt in anyway by this post. That was NOT my intention. Please - t here is no need to fight about this. Each person can decide for herself whether she will continue buying this product for her dogs.

Yorkipower - I think you are 100% correct. I was getting a little upset because I don't like when people force opinions down my throat about how to care for my dog or say that I should not have the right to own a Yorkie

not only is it greenies, but i have given my puppy a mini bites bone to chew on and he sorda kinda got greedy and tore off one of the notted ends. well i kept hearing halo making a noise as if he was choking. i was scared so i woke up my fiancee and he told me to let him outside. when i did he ran to the grass by a little bush and threw something up. i was wondering what it was so i took a stick and poked it in his puke. come to find out it was one of those rawhide mini bites bones that little dogs are to chew on. now i don't give him one unless i am watching him and i dont let him chew on it more than 10 minutes at a time. it gets soggy and he can bit through it and tear off a piece. maybe that is what happened with the greenies.

Oh great idea! I'll get her the bigger one then. I think she'll be able to handle it now that she's bigger. Thanks!

Everyone has their own opinion
 

Im sorry to say stewiesmom but opinions are part of life , and we all have them! Forced down your throat? take it as you will. I think that is also a part of YT its a place where everyone can share their questions views and opinions. Im sorry if you cannot handle a post by me after YOU tell me there is no logic in MY post?? Then you tell everyone you are getting upset? If you cannot handle everyones opinions dont state your own, that would save you a lot of throat cramming I guess. Good Day, Amanda :aimeeyork

I've heard a lot of bad things about this product, so I haven't tried them out on my dog at all. I hear it's bad for their digestive system? Who knows..but after that story I definitly wont be using them. So sad! :(

Your post seems somewhat aggressive. I am sure StewiesMom means no harm. She was offended because you said we should NOT own a Yorkie if we feed them Greenies (which even to me, I find that a little offensive). That seems more of a comment than an opinion, and being in a Yorkie-owner forum.. someone will get offended and I think you hit the nail on the head when you made that comment. There are people on here that have raised and owned Yorkies for years, even decades. I am sure they know what to feed and what not to feed their lil' ones. Like the cliche term states, "Momma knows best". Everyone already stated and I agree, it's all personal preference and it's also up to the Yorkie's chewing habits, swallowing habits and the Yorkie size. If you Yorkie likes to swallow big chunks of objects whole, THAT would then be illogical to give your dog a Greenie without supervision.
Just because a couple Yorkies around the world had problems digesting Greenies does not mean that every single Yorkie will have a problem with it. And just because a few Yorkies had problems does not mean EVERY single Yorkie owner should stop feeding their Yorkies these Greenies. You don't have to STOP feeding it to them altogether just because we're all reading about one bad problem. It should make you watch over your dog more carefully BECAUSE you read about that one problem.
Persay, people have food poisoning eating certain things at certain restaurants. Just because that one person ran into this misfortune does not stop other people from eating there. They are just more cautious when they DO eat there.

Maybe you should think before you say on here that we don't deserve to own Yorkies because we ALL do and we all know how to take care of them. They all have their individual needs and wants that we know about and you don't, so to come around and judge ALL of us because we give our babies Greenies still doesn't give any justification as to why we don't deserve to have the dogs that we already love.

Jmo
 

I started giving my dogs Greenies just a year ago because a friend of mine swore my them. My dogs love them, her dogs love them and neither have ever had a problem. I think that any dog should be watch while they are eating a bone of any kind. They can always bite off a piece and swallow it wrong. I noticed in the pictures that they were pieces of a Greenie, not the whole thing. Those pieces also looked like they were to small for that dog to be eating. I also think that they can eat them too fast and cause them to swallow a piece that they have bit off rather than chewing it. JMO

Well said!