"Raw Meat: A Dangerous Fad"

ORIGINAL: sandra_slayton

One other thing I have wondered about.  Everyone talks about watching the dog close when chewing on bones (or even rawhides, etc) to prevent them swalling a chunk.  With mine, I would probably have to have my hand already in their mouth to prevent them from swallowing something.  Question, how do you know, without ever taking your eyes off the bone, that he hasn't broken a chunk off?    Al;so, are you sitting right there one foot away so you can immediatly get it out of his mouth before swallowing it?   I stopped giving mine rawhides after KayCee got one soft and tried to swallow it and hacked it up-- this happened 2 or 3 times.  And with all that about Greenies, they are out of the  picture as well.  I  really would like to have them chew on something, but I am paranoid about them getting a piece of bone puncture them tummies after seeing that lab pup.   Oh, I do not know if it was cooked or not, just that it was a pork chop bone.  I suspect it was cooked, but some people do buy ones with bones and then cut the bones out  before cooking because they are cheaper.

 
Everyone who has come to my house on the nights that I feed bones to Romeo, thinks I am out of my mind, not because of the bones, but because I literally seat right next to him and watch him all the time.  If I see that he is getting too eager and is going too fast, I  stop him again, tell him to drop it, big chunk comes out and he proceeds. That is why he only has bones at night because it is when I have an hour to spend seating  next to him to watch him eat, or on the weekends. I know is scary to think that something like that might happen, Merrick, sells flossies cow tendons in a spiral shape that are wonderful for chewing, I believe they are sold on this website and their price is the lowest I have seen.  I buy them by my house and pay 2.50 a piece, but Romeo loves them.  I also give him buffalo tendons....and rabbit ears or bully sticks by Red Barn. 

Thanks, I will have to check out the tendons.  As a rule goldens are notorious for gulping and mine are no different.  Out of the 5 we have had, only one ate slowly.
 
I eat more veggies and fruit than meat, but I do eat bread, dariy, and a few cereals.  I took 3 years of home economics in high school (many many years agol) and learned all abut balanced diets.  Four years ago my husband started having stomach trouble and couldn't be out on the road, so only worked locally for a few weeks.  The doctor had him do a day by day of every thing he ate.  When he turned it in the first week the doctor asked if I was a nutricianist because all meals were balance and he got the right amount of each thing each day.    Turns out it was acid reflux and his smoking was causing most of the problem. And what he was eating on the road didn't help either. He was soon back out on the cross country driving.
 
I can see myself giving up meats, but somehow I could not give up cereal, breads, dairy unless i was forced to.  Heck, I like ice cream to much!
 
 

Now, sometimes they do puke up bone fragments. Usually in the early morning after an evening meal that included hard beef bones in some way

 
Oh I hear that.  I fed the dogs some beef shortribs the day before yesterday and when I got up the next morning there was a nice pile of puked up bone fragments and yellow vomit on my oatmeal colored carpet. I'm thinking it's from my Lab. He's a gulper. Same thing happened when I gave him turkey wings. He puked up all the fragments. [:'(]

I can see myself giving up meats, but somehow I could not give up cereal, breads, dairy unless i was forced to. Heck, I like ice cream to much!

That's why there's Tofutti Seriously, I'd rather eat the Tofutti Chocolate Cookie Crunch than regular ice cream, and not just b/c regular ice cream makes me hurl. It's *really* good!

That is something I never heard of.  Of course we live in a small town with a small grocery store.  WalMart is next town and it does have a grocery department, but carries nothing like that.  In this neck of the woods people are more intrested in tacos, enchiladas or some kind of stir fry---about 55 % Mexican population and a lot of Asians, mostly Vietnemese I think.  Hubby loves pepper steak stir fry and I have to make it every time he comes home.  Can't fix just a little Mexican food, so have the kids & families over to eat when I fix it.