Biting off chunks of beef marrow bones....

Is she actually biting off **bone** or pieces of cartilage from the joint end?  The cartilage should digest -- bone probably not so much.  Am I making sense here?

Luke sometimes demolishes his raw meaty bones and it always shocks me when I check in on him and find nothing left.  The first few times I watched him really close afterwards.  Thus far, the only issue I've noticed from it is that his poo gets a little soft and has a white mucus on it.

I try to watch him closely when he's got the bones, but sometimes they disappear faster than I think.  I figure that wolves & coyotes eat bones in the wild -- so far we haven't run into any problems.

Callie your absolutely making sense.  She is biting off actual bone.  She only bites off the parts that are a bit "thinner" but still pretty darn thick.  She seriously become a power chewer to say the least.  Thankfully she doesn't power chew furniture, or we'd be in biiiig trouble.   

Tink decided to become a power chewer on MY futon frame (the arm rest!).  So I soaked the chewed area with White Flower Oil (essential oil blend for arthritis).

Dang -- one more use for WFO!! LOL

beef marrow bones are NOT RMBs; RMBs are very meaty bones the dog is intended to consume completely, usually within minutes, chomp chomp gulp, such as raw chicken legs or pork ribs. Beef marrow bones are rec bones, intended to occupy the dog for hours. Chewing off small bits of the bone and swallowing it is fine. If the dog starts swallowing the entire bone then you can start to worry. I personally don't like beef leg bones for power chewers they tend to be hard on the teeth, a tooth-breaking and tooth-wearing hazard.

Yeah I'm guilty of calling rec bones RMB :)  I would loooove to find other types of bones for her, but I'm having a hard time finding butchers that carry other types of bones aside from the beef marrow bones.  I asked once for a knuckle bone and they asked me what the heck that was?!  Maybe I was asking for the wrong thing....hmm.....

I guess I'll let her have the other bone I got for her that's still in my freezer and just monitor really really closely.  It's just lately she's developed a powerful need to chew and chew hard!  I'm OK with it considering she is choosing to chew appropriate items - but it's also getting hard for us to find good chews for her that she doesn't demolish in under 20 minutes (plus she'll just eat the demolished pieces).  She has very little interested in nylabones unfortunately.  But she does like rubber like chews though and I've found a couple that can withstand her chompers! 
 

 If you can find an "ethnic" grocery store, a lot of other cultures are much less picky than we Americans regarding what parts of an animal they will or will not eat... as a result, you can typically find "unusual" things like neck bones more easily. The bone selection in most "normal" supermarkets (Stop & Shop, Ralph's, Publix, Big Y, etc.) I've found to be pretty limited.

mudpuppy

I personally don't like beef leg bones for power chewers they tend to be hard on the teeth, a tooth-breaking and tooth-wearing hazard.

No kidding.  We definitely have that problem.  Is there a rec bone alternative to the cow femur?