Antlers I have been hearing mixed reviews about antlers.. wondering what you guys think about these? Do they really break teeth or are they safe? |
To me they seem rock hard and no way would i never give them to a small breed dog. |
Honestly, I have never understood where giving antlers to dogs for treats came from. Having grown up in the country and in a family of hunters, I have never seen where wild canines have any interest in antlers. In fact, antlers are shed by deer annually and people around here like to go scouting for those sheds. If dogs "loved" them, they would be so much harder to find, but they are not. They are easily found. They are left to decay or insects and rodents will knaw on them. I even have a few laying around my house and my dogs never even sniff them. I think if I were to break them apart and continually lay them in front of my dogs they may show some interest but it's not a natural attraction so for these reasons I pass them up. They are extremely hard, and can definitely break teeth. |
They might be OK for a larger breed but i won't give them to my munchkins. |
Considering I'm always hear about how hard bones shouldn't be given or has to be with supervision to dogs (I hear some have kept chomping till their gums/mouth bled) I would never want to give them to mine. I was considering it once but then I was thinking antlers are basically bones anyways but they are in the much harder/denser category. Even some of the "smaller" sized antlers I'd be paranoid to give to my small dogs cause of potential choking hazard and teeth breaking. |
Thank you guys, no antlers for Chloe! I agree with all of your comments. |
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Yes they will break teeth they are wayyyyy to hard. |
i don't believe Cody's prev. owner ever gave him anything to chew on, reason I say this is because, after reading many members giving their dogs bully sticks and how much their dogs loved them, I had never heard of them. With my passed girls I always gave them hooves, pig ears,pig snouts, and years back raw hide chews. After my cousins Poodle swallowed a fair size piece of raw hide and needed to be operated on to remove it there were no more rawhide given to my dogs. Then I read an article on pig ears and snouts greasy, oily can cause Pancreatitis or if the have Pancreatits will aggravate it, so n o more pig ears or snouts. So I bought Cody a bully stick, OMG, he went to town on that, 3 1/2 hours straight he chewed on it till it was down to 4 inches. I had to lure him away from it, if I got near him he would growl, when I lured him away I threw the 4 inches out. I went to my local animal feed store and got him a braided bully stick and an antler. I figured him never having anything to chew on he would jump on the antler, not so, he turned his nose up, I gave him the braided bully stick and he started on that, finished that off in 2 days, it was 12 inches long. I got him 2 more from the feed store, gave him one, he has had it for 2 weeks now, he'll chew on it, plays with it, and no more growling at me if I am near him, he knows no one is going to take his chew away from him. So the point here is, if a dog that never had anything to chew on refuses an antler it can't be all that good, my Cody is not a fussy boy, he will eat anything, yet he wants no part of antler. It is still in his toy box, he has never taken it. I also got him a hoof, it took a few days before he decided to give that a try, the hoof he'll chew on once in a while, I just wanted to get him a variety of thing to chew on for him to learn,it will not be taken away from him. So no more antlers. |
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