Never, ever give a cat or a dog bones. Vets will tell you that they can too easily get pieces lodged in their intestines and die from infections.
Cooked bones are dangerous; raw bones of the right size are not. When cooked they become very hard and brittle, shatter into sharp shards and don’t digest easily. Raw bones are softer, get gnawed into flakes rather than shards, are very digestible and provide marrow and tons of calcium.
That’s why coyotes, wolves and bob cats don’t drop dead all over the country with impacted intenstines from consuming bones- and they consume a lot of raw bones.
I’d always understood never to give them fowl bones which are fractious, and splinter easily, thus catching in their throats and as you stated intestines etc.
I say this having had 30 dogs over the past 30 years without a one having difficulties with the beef shank bones we’ve given them many times.
Don’t know why, but stray/dumped dogs seem to just know where we are. We are down to three right now.
Same with cats. Currently 16 (all fixed I might add) we claim plus a couple more (I suppose not fixed) that come and go from somewhere.
Ahhhhhhhhh country living! At least the Skunks don’t come around anymore.