Rawhide bones

[Guest Anonymous]

Anyone have any information whether or not you should give rawhide bones to puppies...??TIA

[Guest Anonymous]

i dont feed my dogs rawhide bones i normally only give them milk bones, and for hard chewing i'll give them cow hoves, all though they stink somethign really bad

[BuddysMom]

I don't know what the official word is ... personally I've had too much bad experience with rawhide bones with adult dogs (messing with their digestive systems) so I wouldn't give them to dogs or puppies. I give beef marrow bones from the butcher (sometimes packaged as "soup bones") as an ocassional treat. Sometimes tricky to find them not too big or too small. Then freeze the ones I'm saving for later.

P.S. - Welcome to dogo!

[imported_Kat]

Puppies shouldn't really be given bones for starters. They can damage their mouths through chewing down hard and the rawhide bones in particular can stick in the puppies throat all too easily.

For puppy teething its better giving something like a cool raw carrot.

[mouseatthebusstop]

I would not give any dog a rawhide bone

[Shannon_C]

I don't agree with dogs having raw hide bones, especially puppies i think to many suffer through choking.
Raw hide gets soggy after a while and can become lodged in there digestive system which can be fatal.
I know of one or two that have lost there dogs because of them.
I do think they should be taken off the market!

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[TDG]

depends what kind of rawhide it is.

regular rawhide is a choking hazard because it gets mushy and can be swallowed in large chunks.

compressed rawhide is an entirely different story tho. this type is compressed at very high temperatures, which change the texture. the dog can't chew off large chunks and will only be able to pull off little bits and pieces. be careful tho when the leftover stub gets small enough to be swallowed whole. throw it away and give a new one.

cow hooves are also a pretty bad idea too, as they are hard enough to break dog's teeth and can easily cause blockages.

the best thing to give a dog to chew on are raw, untreated animal bones. not only are they a lot cheaper than all the "especially made for dogs" fad items, but they also don't have any colorings, flavors, stabilizers or other chemicals added.

for small puppies, things like lamb ribs and pork ribs (like babyback ribs) are ideal because they are very soft - to give you an idea, you can cut these with a sharp bread knife.

for older and bigger dogs, lamb shanks and beef knuckle bones are great. you can get items like that from the butcher or grocery store for a fraction of the price you'd pay for the petstore stuff like rawhides, pig ears, cow hooves and so on.

it's just sad that the pet industry has people so brainwashed about what's safe and what isn't and constantly puts out misleading information that people are afraid to give their animals the most natural things.

[Lucky Chaos]

I don't give rawhide at all no matter what kind. My old GSD Koda chewed it until it was soft and swallowed it whole and began to choke. Luckily she brought it back up almost instantly.

[courtnek]

I give my dogs rawhide, when I am here to supervise the chewing. it helps their teeth stay clean, and as long as someone is watching, its not a bad thing.

I would NOT give it to a puppy tho...