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raw meaty bones question
Submitted by CathyandAudrey on April 21, 2010 - 12:28amI still am unsure about feeding bones. I got some soup bones for my dogs, I could not believe how much they LOVED them! They were big though, not somethng they could eat in a few minutes. It was something that took several hours, then I took them up because I didn't want them fighting over them, (one dog took one away from the other and sat on it whle she was chewing her own)and we had people over and I couldn't properly supervise them. The next day I had these raw bones with just a tiny bit of meat left on them, and I was afraid to give them to the dogs because they had been out all night so I threw them away. When these raw sites talk about eating raw meaty bones, what EXACTLY do they mean? They eat them as a meal? They keep them for days? The dogs don't get splinters in their stomach/intestines and have serious complications from eating bones? (That is my biggest fear.)What size bones are they talking about?
Cathy
when she first came home 
Re: raw meaty bones question
I give large raw marrow bones, I leave them for two days then throw them out, in the summer I boil them and they last a bit longer. If they clean them off good I throw them in the washing machine and there good for more chew sessions. I haven't had a problem with splinters on the big round marrow bones. I've never scaled teeth and they are all white and bright!!
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No, I think the ones that Kathy is referring to
are the beef marrow bones. They are great for chewing but are not consumed. Chicken necks/backs, bones like that are for eating. Apparently when not cooked are very digestible. I've never given my dogs bones to eat, so can't give any recommendation.
do you use it as a meal?
and how long do you let them have them, if they don't finish them in a day?
Cathy
when she first came home
We use the raw bones...
we buy them frozen at the grocery store and they still have a little marrow and meat on them, so they have to chew them outside. They are pretty thick, our guys have never splintered them. Do not cook them, just give them raw or frozen. Some people use them for soup bones. They usually cost about $3.00 for two compared to $9.99 each for sterilized bones at Petsmart.
Kathy, Ollie and Chester
I have a bone-a-phobia also!
the food I got has ground bone, even the lamb, beef, and other large non poultry animals, but I still would like some input from people who feed their dogs raw bone. It looks like the common bones the raw companies provide are poultry bones, necks, wings, backs. I have just heard about dogs dying from bones and it scaes the heck out of me!
Cathy
when she first came home
I started feeding Toby raw food a few weeks ago.
But I never give him raw bones. I guess I am afraid he will choke. I buy prepared raw dog food that contain grounded bones so that Toby will get his calcium. Usually only the Turkey and chicken prepared raw dog food contains grounded bones. So I give Toby those every other day. And venison, beef, lamb etc on other days.
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We give Dozer femur bones all the time.
He loves them, i only give the femur bones with the ends cut off because he can't destroy them and splinter them. The brand i get is called Red Barn and the come filled with cheese and bacon,PB,or beef flavorings. As far as actual raw bones with meat we got one for Dozer for x-mas last year and while he loved it it gave hiom the runs for 1 week. So we stay away from butcher bones and go with the sterilized filled femur bones from now on.
