| Nancy1999 | 02-08-2013 10:34 AM |
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Originally Posted by SissaYSU
(Post 109259)
I was at PetSmart the other day to pick up some bones and I had a thing of rawhide bones. I had lil Bubba with me and a worker had seen me carrying the bones and Bubba and asked if I was buying those for him. I told her yah and she told me that regular rawhide bones are bad for small breeds...the rawhide can expand in them and cause all kinds of health problems...she told me to get the compressed rawhide bones...and I did...has anyone ever heard of rawhide bones being harmful for small breeds? We always gave them to Tyke and he was fine with them...certainly won't be giving anymore of them to either dogs. I don't understand how regular rawhide bones can be bad...but yet the compressed rawhide bones are ok...I mean...aren't they still made of rawhide??
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--Sissa :aimeeyork :aimeeyork
| Compressed rawhide bones are totally different than regular rawhide. They grind the rawhide into super tiny pieces and then press it into a shape. The reason these are safer is that while rawhide isn't 100% digestible, the tiny pieces are too small to cause an intestinal obstruction. You'll find the compressed rawhide in lots of the dental treats. So while I wouldn't want to give a regular rawhide, these are much safer. It really depends on how hard they are, if they can chew them up too quickly, they are adding a significant amount of calories and also, there is a possibility that they might want to swallow the last couple inches of it, so you have to be very careful of them not causing a throat obstruction. I think bully sticks are better, as long as you get the really hard ones made in America. Of course you also have to supervise the use of bully sticks. | 