Chicken bones

[dave1949]

On a raw diet your dogs poop piles will be much smaller. Their body uses and burns more of the food for fuel since the food is its natural state. All those unneeded chemicals and preservatives in dry kibble foods go undigested, causing bigger poop piles. And smellier!

I also noticed they are drier and ash-colored. Maybe the color comes from the bones, not sure. Raw food diets are also very high in water content, which has to have an effect also.
Dave.

 

[CrownHawg]

I guess our dog growing up didn't know about the dangers of cooked chicken bones. My brother worked at KFC in town, and would bring a full bucket of left over chicken home almost every night. Our dog, a German Shepherd would finish off at least half the bucket. After time though, the dog actually got so tired of chicken he would come up to it, sniff then walk away. Of course it took several months for this to happen. However, when he was eating it, not once did he ever have a problem with the bones. I would never feed my dog these days since hearing about this, but just thought I would share the story.

 

[RobertN]

My understanding was pork bones could be bad too. Part of that, is how they are cut at the butcher; a bone-in pork chop has really pointy bones.

 

[Baldy99114]

My grandfather used to feed chicken bones to his dogs and never had a problem. I told a friend that and he told me he had a dog that he too fed chicken bones to. After his dog died (from another cause) the vet opened the dog up and showed him the shards of bones stuck in his intestines. The vet said oft times nothing happens but when it does it is a very painful death for the dog.

I had a neighbor that lost their dog to a pork chop bone. The bone got stuck in the dogs throat but it wasn't for over two hours until the dog displayed any discomfort. By the time they figured out the dog was having problems and left for the vet, the dog died en-route.

For me, no chicken or pork bones for my dogs.

 

[milkman]

My dog never gets chicken bones, but I sure love them. Maybe that's what is making my waist swell up.

 

[czechsonofagun]

I feed our dogs raw bones, actually fun to watch Montmorency (95 pounds of an Airedale) to chew up and swallow quarter of a chicken without ever putting it down.

Same for deer bones, they typically eat till they can't move

 

[General Lee]

I also noticed they are drier and ash-colored. Maybe the color comes from the bones, not sure. Raw food diets are also very high in water content, which has to have an effect also.
Dave.

Yes, the bone causes ash colored stools. Raw diets are very healthy for dogs but you have to do the research and do it right. Tossing a raw bone on the floor doesn't cut it. You need a certain percentage of bone, meat and organ in their diet. The bone chewing promotes healthy teeth and gums, the diet itself is good for the coat and can cure most allergy related issues and other ailments.

 

[AlanB]

It is a long running thing at my house about chicken bones and dogs. All dogs here are really SWMBO, (s) and they tolerate me. SWMBO grew up feeding dogs leftovers or whatever came off the farm, not sure if they ever fed Dog food to the farm dogs. Anyway, our dogs have a constant diet of Chicken bones, and seem none the worse for wear over the past 20+ years, (many dogs) but I must admit I have never seen one of my dogs intestines.

It is almost the running joke, I cringe each time, but I am just at the "whatever" point now.

So, I would not do it, but it is done all the time at my house, and has been for a long time on multiple dogs and breeds of dogs and we have not experienced any problems. ( I know, small statistical sample)

 

[Taylortractornut]

Dont tell my dogs lol. They will take a chicken bone in a minute.

 

[wdchyd]

Dont tell my dogs lol. They will take a chicken bone in a minute.

That's cuz they are "Mississippi Southern Fried Chicken Bones".....ummmmm...ummmmm.....ummmmm.........