Eating strings off the rope bone?

My dog does the same thing!!  I don't know for sure but I stop it when he does it.  I am sure that if they get to much it can ball up inside and then become a serious issue.

i havent heard of any incident with it, but i would definitly discourage the behavior.
dh's rottweiler used to do this, strings would actually fall out the other end of her, in the house, that toy was "discontinued" shortly after i moved in []

How big is your dog and how long are the strings? They probably won't hurt him if it's just a few short ones, but the long ones can get twisted up with his intestines. The vet clinic my sister worked at had a Golden Retriever pup eat a bunch of string from a rope bone and the poor little guy died even after surgery to remove it. I think in that case, the problem was due to the large amount of string in the small amount of pup.

I'm not much of a worry-wart myself. Especially with adult dogs. Our Dal has passed some of the most unbelievable things. Wooden spoons, filet mignon - complete with toothpicks, several feet of rope edging from a comforter, corn cobs, bones of every size and type, and too many McDonalds toys to count. So far, no obstructions or perforations, but the occasional bout of colitis is probably due to all of the gastrointestinal abuse.

we've had Bugs (15 mos old)  for less than a year and just yesterday I was thinking while on poop patrol about the Marley book.  His poo is hardly ever just poo, there always seems to be something in it.  Unfortunately he no longer gets rope toys because he would destroy them and eat the strings.  We had several rope poos that we had to help out [:'(] and that was that.  He is a big dog but even still I wouldn't think a few strings would harm any size pup.