Posted on 04/22/2010 8:28:53 AM PDT by JoeProBono
WASHINGTON — If they only knew, dogs from coast to coast might be howling over this advice from the government.
The Food and Drug Administration issued a reminder to consumers Wednesday to toss out bones from their meals rather than feed them to their pets.
"Some people think it's safe to give dogs large bones, like those from a ham or a roast," said Carmela Stamper, a veterinarian in the Center for Veterinary Medicine at the FDA. "Bones are unsafe no matter what their size."
The FDA spelled out 10 reasons it's a bad idea to give doggie a real bone.....
(Excerpt) Read more at google.com ...
Wow. I don’t know how dogs survived all these years without the FDA intervention.
FMCDH(BITS)
Raw bones are fine, however. Dogs evolved eating raw bones. I give my dogs raw bones all the time.
Yeah me too. I feed my dogs a raw diet. Best thing I ever did for their health.
Cindie
LOL
Hmmm..what about IPods? Had to take on out of the puppies mouth today, she had already gotten one of the ear buds off of the headphones.
Did someone say BONE?
How much did this bit of wisdom cost the US Taxpayer?
My dogs get lightly cooked beef or pork neck bones almost daily. They’re big dogs with scissor bites so they’re doing a good job of grinding down the bone. Plus one is only a year old, so she gets all of her chewing done on the bones and not household items/furniture.
Dogs used to get quite a bit of bone meal in their food (ever notice how you don’t see chalk-white dog doo anymore.)
Dogs were fed table scraps since the beginning of time. The FDA has lost its common sense.
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Whenever I BBQ ribs the dogs get all the bones.
Chewing those ribs bones helps remove the tarter from their teeth.
We do that, too. He grinds those bones down to powder. He will also take a hike, find shed antlers and happily spend the next week eating them down, an inch or two at a time. The same with deer legs that hunters cut off and leave in the woods. After finishing off the hoof in no time flat, he will spend a week or so on the leg bones. However, he will take raw beef leg bones that I cook slightly and bury them. Months later, he will find them again and then spend time eating them. I think they have this instinct because the time spent buried breaks down some of the tissue.
We try to not let him have cooked chicken bones, but every now and then he is naughty and steals them out of the garbage.
When he was a puppy,and his adult teeth were just setting in, he would go out, find a supple young tree branch, break it off and use it for a chew toy.
He is over 10, in great health and his vet says he is physiologically younger than his age. His teeth and gums are perfect and the vet commented on that, as well. He is an Akita Inu with a very strong bite. He is also rather fastidious when he eats, rarely gobbles, chews things well and will not eat if he isn’t hungry. He also does not care much for raw meat. He will fight and kill vermin, but not eat them (raccoons/possums), but he ignores rabbits. He will eat cooked rabbit. One of the few raw meat animals he eats is baby mice and then he will eat the entire nest.
Dogs may have evolved to eat raw, but they have been around humans a long time and I am certain they ate cooked bones back in the beginning of that relationship.
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