milkbone
 

are they good for yorkies or dogs in general. I am currently feeding them to charlie.

I just bought my 3lb yorkie the milkbone chewy chicken drum sticks and he loves them. I suggest breaking them in half because they're fairly large depending on how big your baby is. Apparently they are good because of the vitamins they contain.. :thumbup:

I bought a box of http://pet.imageg.net/graphics/produ...031191t400.jpg for Hiro when we got him. This was before I knew about all the bad stuff that goes into some dog foods/treats.

This is the ingredients of the bones I have sitting (almost untouched) on my cupboard.
(I put the bad/low quality stuff in italics and the ok stuff in bold. Now this is only what I've learned while I've been educating myself about food and realizing that my dog has a wheat allergy.)

Wheat Flour, Wheat Bran, Beef Meal and Beef Bone Meal, Poultry By-Product Meal, Beef Fat (Preserved with Tocopherols), Wheat Germ, Salt, Turkey Meal, Chicken Meal, Bacon Fat (Preserved with BHT, Propyl-Gallate, and Citric Acid), Dicalcium Phosphate, Brewers Dried Yeast, Titanium Dioxide, Malted Barley Flour, Iron Oxide, Sodium Metabisulfite, Vitamins & Minerals (Choline Chloride, Zinc Sulfate, Vitamin E Supplement, Calcium Carbonate, d-Calcium Pantothenate, Vitamin A Supplement, Copper Sulfate, Ethylenediamine Dihydriodie (Source of Iodine), Riboflavin Supplement, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Vitamin D3 Supplement), Artificial Flavor (Source of Sausage Flavor), Red 40, Blue 1, Yellow 6, Yellow 5

Here's a link you can peek at to know why I italicized what I did. I don't know much about all the big words in the middle of the list... but the fact that there isn't ONE (even ok) named meat source in the first 5 ingredients worried me enough to stop feeding them to Hiro. Damn hyperlink isn't working... it's Cat and dog food reviews and ratings, ingredients, information, all in a straight forward manner!

So. Long story short. No they're not very good.

www. petfoodratings . net


... without all the inappropriate spaces. For some reason the stupid hyperlink isn't working. :(

weird I make a lot of foods and dog treats myself most of the main ingredients in all dog food//treats etc. (not just my own):confused: is wheat?

Well not all dogs have an allergy, but wheat and corn tend to be a common offender. When I got Hiro he was licking his paws and rubbing his face all the time and apparently that can be a sign of an allergy. I changed his food to a decent food (he was on puppy chow before) and stopped feeding him treats, bones etc with so much wheat and his allergies have cleared up a lot. Not to mention his skin is healthier and not dry and flakey anymore. I changed to a wheat free/corn free food and he's doing much much better.

Natural Treats
These are really good treats for dogs... and they're grain free.
There are chewies out there that don't have wheat in them (bully sticks, etc) and grain free food!

Although, milk-bones aren't bad because of the wheat necessarily... it's bad because of the rest of the stuff.

I just want to clarify that MY dog has a wheat allergy. I'm not saying wheat/grain is bad or w/e... it just doesn't work for MY dog.

Some people don't have a problem feeding their animals products that have wheat/grain IN them... and it is hotly debated if wheat/grain is bad or unnecessary in most products, but it's usually a cheap filler at the very least.

Not a treat I'd choose because I don't like the use of by-products. I would rather they named exactly what part of the animal they used. Beef meal and beef bone meal shouldn't be a problem. It is just beef and beef bones... You could ask the company to clarify. I don't see wheat as a problem, so that part wouldn't bother me.

Hmm good to know. Thanks for the info I've always had an issue with my boys flakey dry skin maybe this could be why!! :thumbup: