I am on of those crazy momma's . . No milk bones or greenies.

Galen doesn't get many treats. But when he does he only gets ones that do something for him or are extremely healthy. I give him coconut oil, Coconut Chips, Dynamo Dog -skin and coat, Primal Dry Roasted Venison Lung Puffs, Primal Dry Roasted Buffalo Liver Chunks, Plato Salmon treats, Preen Wild Salmon dog treats, Stella and Chewy Carnivore Kisses Wild Alaskan Salmon treats or Stella and Chewy Carnivore Crunch Beef Treats. We are loving the fish treats. Great for his skin and coat. I just got him freeze dried tripe . . We will see how he likes it.

thanks :) yeah I'll be looking into other treat options. iv only ever owned larger breed dogs before and the only time i had to worry about what would upset their tummies or not was switching foods or once they got older and when dot (my border collie ) had liver failer :/


so yeah, i will be looking into other treats :)

Mine would never eat milkbones or any kind of biscuit kind of treat. Greenies everyone used to give on here back in the day untill the reports came out they were harmful then we all quit giving them.

Mine are snobs. They try to give them Milk Bones at the Stwrbucks drive thru but I find them in their car seat unbeaten.

LOL Jax does too! Funny part is I don't even think he really even likes them that much. He just feels special getting something.

LoL Jax will do this too in stores and stuff, turns his nose up. But once we get home he will usually take it inside and eat it.

I don't think they were greenies, but when Lola was about 6 months old I bought something that looked kind of hard and was in the shape of a toothbrush. I was gardening and wanted her safe from mulch and stuff like that, so I brought her crate out and kept moving it around the yard, I gave her this toothbrush looking thing thinking she would chew on it for days, to my surprise less than an hour later it was gone, I kept looking all over for it thinking surely she could not have eaten the whole thing, but she must have, that night she had severe diarrhea and it continued for over a week, we went to the vet twice, she had all sorts of tests for parasites and so forth the only thing that cured her was imodium. Her butt was so raw she would scream in pain when having a BM, to this day she gets very upset if she has the least little trouble with her hind end. She has a very hearty tummy and that has been the only thing to ever upset it. A year ago a friend of mine gave the same type of thing to her yorkie with the same results. I think those type of things look hard but disintegrate fairly easy when mixed with saliva and is really to much for a small dog to digest.

When it comes to milk bones I feel lucky that Lola will eat them, I mostly give her the little round ones that have the fake bone marrow in the center, but she will also eat a mid size milk bone. While I don't think a dog should eat of diet of these because there is little nutritional value in them, I don't think they are harmful to the dog either. Lola is my first dog to eat a dry bone and her teeth and breath are so much better than any of my other pups. She is 4 and a half and her teeth have never been cleaned and she has almost no tartar on them, I feel that her dry kibble food and the crunchy dry treats have a lot to do with it. So thumbs down for toothbrush looking dental chews and thumbs up for crunchy milk bone type treats