Posted on 11/22/2019 2:24:32 PM PST by Red Badger
A dog breeder I know recommended I give one of my dogs raw poultry with the bones to combat bad breath.
Then went on to say ONLY COOKED poultry bones were bad for dogs and this is a good natural thing for them they need.
I am highly skeptical of that advise so I haven’t tried it.
Has anyone else heard anything like that before?
I tend to have giant breeds so maybe its a matter of "dosage" but my dogs have always eaten all the onions and garlic that I eat, and I tend to intentionally put "too much" of both in my food, with no apparent problems. I had a dog that regularly picked her own raspberries and grapes but never had any health issues. I had another dog that ate a giant block of chocolate, not the fake chocolate coating, and didn't get sick at all.
Bones. How did bones get to be a problem? I give mine all they want as long as it isn't a sawed layer of bone like the T in a t-bone or a pork chop. If I didn't they would and often do just go find their own. Over the years Ive caught quite a few laying around in the yard eating a piece of a venison shank or a road killed possum or something. They steal the duck feet and chicken heads and stuff from under the table when Im butchering. Never a problem.
Its not like Im a one dog at a time person or have them outside and don't see their supposed suffering. I usually have multiple dogs and they live in the house and go out with me. I certainly have had an unusual amount of eye on time of many dogs and have never seen these things that we are told to avoid doing.
If they insist on writing these articles then they need to add a lot more fact and stop printing these ramblings of delusional anxiety.
Only one who died young drank from a puddle in a park where some moron drained his radiator. Don't feed your dog antifreeze.
Im not giving any advice. Ive never seen any of it. I do know that many wild canines and stray dogs make a living off of eating birds and don't seem to have any problems. Sure wild animals lives are tough and they don't necessarily live all that long so that doesn't mean anything but the stray corgi that adopted some members of my fathers family and lived as a wild dog had a long seemingly happy career of eating primarily injured and unwary wild fowl he had caught.
Democrats.
Dogs won’t eat them....dogs have standards.
Come to think of it, those are the only digestive problems Ive ever seen. The dogs ate way to much refined flour (bags of bread intended as poultry treats, the crusts of a dozen large delivery pizzas the morning after the party, etc) and then it got plugged.
The only reason I can eat broccoli is becuase when I was a kid our dog, a Spaniel, would eat anything EXCEPT broccoli.
I could slip anything I didn’t want to eat under the table and it’d be gone and my mother wouldn’t notice. But broccoli... the dog wouldn’t touch it, so I had to learn to eat it.
The only thing I won’t feed my dogs is chocolate. Everything else is a free for all. They especially love ice cream.
Cat, Chihuahua, same thing. :-)
our dogs on the farm would regularly get a bird or turkey and eat the whole thing...most of our dogs lived super long lives. Cooked meat is a problem because the bones get brittle and can break as they are eating them and become sharp weapons to the stomach lining. Raw bones have some give...
I have fed raw meaty bones to all my dogs for years. They do not “chew” the raw bones, say from a drumstick, leg, or breast. They tear at the meat and skin, then put the bone between the back teeth on one or the other side, and give it a quick few “crunches”.
Then down it goes. The acids in their stomach are so strong that the bones completely dissolve. Raw bones in poultry, particularly, are soft and flexible. Cooked chicken bones are changed by the heating process, and become brittle and splintery. and should not be fed to dogs.
That sais, a dog who is used to eating raw bones usually does much better if they come across cooked chicken bones in the garbage or outside. Their stomach acids are much stronger than those of a kibble fed dog.
Dogs fed an appropriate raw diet, which includes meat, non-weight bearing bone, organ meats, gizzards, and skin are much healthier than kibble-fed dogs. Keep carbs/grains/and all the other cr@p they put in dog food away from dogs.
They cook the daylights out of kibble, so there is little to no nutrition left, then spray on synthetic vitamins as a “fix”.
A good place to do some research on this website, and there are some free articles and guides under the “For Pet Owners” arrow on the top left column.
I have fed Daschunds, Belgian Malinois, Labs, Bichon Frise, and Havanese this way. You would be surprised how many dog owners are fed up with the chronic health problems caused by commercial dog food.
For those of you who are squeamish about raw meaty bones, you can get freeze-dried raw. One company I have used is “Vital Essentials”, and linking it below.
Always read labels. Less is more!
http://www.rawmeatybones.com
https://www.vitalessentialsraw.com
Thanks to all who answered my question on raw chicken bones, etc. Very informative answers, Thank you very much.
Don’t blame it on Big Pet Food comrade. This fallacy is brought to you by Big Pharma and Big Oil.
I’ll hang with lower jaw
I’ll hang with lower jaw
You know where you can stick your comrade, asshat.
Tell that to the Bumpus dogs
Dr. Mongue said pet owners should not give their dogs or cats...
Fat Trimmings or fatty foods
Turkey skin
Say what? Those are natural foods for most pets...dogs or cats.
I’ve seen YouTube videos of people feeding their dogs raw chicken parts.
LOL! The sots!
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