knuckle bone vs. chicken leg

• glenmar Posted : 6/11/2006 8:32:28 AM Cooking a bone changes the molecular structure and makes it more prone to splintering.  Cooked bones are NOT safe for dogs.  If you choose to take that risk on your dogs behalf, that's your choice, but I do think it's appropriate for a picture of a RAW knuckle to be shown so that the person asking for one KNOWS what to look for. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• luv4gsds Posted : 6/11/2006 10:00:00 AM I just let mine eat the meat off and I throw away the bone. Do you see. Do you see any where it says eating bone? Next time I'll make myself more clearer. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• glenmar Posted : 6/11/2006 11:21:12 AM Why on EARTH are you so hostile?  No one is attacking you we are simply trying to CLARIFY for those who are wanting to FEED bones.  That WAS the question after all.....not giving a dog cooked meat and bones, which does nothing for the teeth.....but FEEDING the bones[&o]. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• luv4gsds Posted : 6/11/2006 11:28:36 AM I'm not being hostile. I'm just making myself clear. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• amstaffy Posted : 6/11/2006 12:58:51 PM There are TWO types of Knuckle bones that can be purchased for dogs. The first picture is a "Smoked Knuckle" and the second one is a RAW Knuckle"  Both can be given to dogs. I prefer the RAW as they are fully digestable compared to the smoked as they can shear of and splinter. We all know what can happen then.    Bones are no reason to get all twisted up. There are differences in everything, no right, no wrong. Keep in mind when you are here that people can read the printed word differently then you have intended 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• luv4gsds Posted : 6/11/2006 1:06:53 PM You are right amstaffy that is the reason I said just eat the meat and throw away the bone. I'm sure people can tell the differents from a raw knuckle bone and smoked knuckle bone which I give both to my dogs. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• amstaffy Posted : 6/11/2006 1:16:02 PM Actually some people DON'T know the differences and they could come here and read what is written and think it is OK to allow a dog to consume a smoked bone when it could be dangerous to their dogs health when we are talking about an actual Raw Meaty Bone that is consumable.   Main thing is we are all here to help eachother, not to argue over what "type" of bone we're talking about in a nasty way     0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• glenmar Posted : 6/11/2006 3:50:15 PM My thought would be that since the thread either started as or has become about teeth cleaning that it would be easy to get confused.  And since many, many times folks talk about the "bones" they got at the pet store, I was glad to see the RAW knuckle pic posted.   luv4gsds do you  find that the smoked bones or the meat I guess, actually help with the teeth?  My thought would be that the meat would come off pretty easily so no tearing involved?  I wouldn't think that would actually do anything to clean the teeth, but I honestly don't know since I've never given mine any bones that were not raw. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• jennie_c_d Posted : 6/11/2006 9:03:28 PM I've given Emma one of the smoked ones before *hides in shame*. She ate the thing. Go figure. She licked off all the brown stuff, first. I didn't see much meat. It was greasy, and nasty, and gave her horrible poop, and I never gave her another one. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• willowchow Posted : 6/12/2006 2:10:48 AM I think it's safe to say that even with raw bones there is still a danger and everyone needs to do what they think is right for their dog.  Willow gets her teeth done by me, she doesn't like to chew at all. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• sakura Posted : 6/12/2006 2:43:27 AM How about air-dried bones? Are they safe? 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• glenmar Posted : 6/12/2006 8:07:08 AM While I'm not sure, I would think NOT.  Drying of any kind, DRIES them...and that is going to make them more brittle. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• dasher Posted : 6/12/2006 8:24:18 AM I tried giving Dasher chicken bones but he would have none of it.  I tired small pieces, big pieces, tearing the meat off for him, etc.  It was a no go. [] So now he gets a raw soup bone which he likes.  He can eat the marrow out of it and chew on the bone but it is thick enough he can't splinter it.  They have to be on the small side because if they are too big he won't eat them.  We also have a lab, Lille, so when I shop for bones I have to find big ones for her and small ones for Dasher! [] 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• mudpuppy Posted : 6/12/2006 9:21:57 AM I've fed a smoked knuckle before, and the dogs ate part of it, and then proceeded to puke up bone shards all over the place. Raw knuckles are partially consumable and digestable-- the bone on the joint end is a crumbly soft substance unlike the hard bone you get in the beef shank (marrow bones).  I consider a knuckle bone to be a rec bone, something you give to keep the dog busy for hours, not something you feed to clean teeth. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• fillyone Posted : 6/12/2006 8:54:55 PM It's seems that I read somewhere (but I'll be dipped if I can remember where) that the teeth cleaning benefits of raw bones comes from two things.  The tearing/chewing action and the enzymes in the raw meat that are destroyed with heat.  Just my .02 and Dante's shiny teeth [] 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login