Montegriffo wrote:C-Mag wrote:Okeefenokee wrote:Dogs can eat bones. When I say dogs, I mean real dogs, not chihuahuas. Not every day, and not in large quantities, but a bone here and there is fine.
Every online response to, " OMFG, MY DOG JUST ATE ONE LITTLE BONE! WHAT DO I DOOOOOOO!," is responded to with, "chill. dogs eat bones sometimes. if they aren't choking on them cause they're a rat dog, they'll be fine. they're dogs."
Just make sure you take that needle-like piece of cartilage off the drumstick. That thing is like a piece of rubber, and they can't chew it up. Choking hazard.
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It's a bullshit wives tale. I feed my dog all kinds of bones, chickens, grouse, turkeys, deer, elk, pork. He just turns them into big turds.
WTF are people thinking? Did something magically happen to canines teeth and gastro intenstinal system when they became domesticated ?
Dogs didn't eat cooked chicken bones before they were domesticated.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09 ... -to-do-it/
The charity’s warning has been echoed by the British Veterinary Association.
Its junior vice president, Gudrun Ravetz, told The Telegraph: “Cooked bones are dangerous to cats and dogs and vets routinely see animals who have consumed them, whether through being fed the cooked bones directly or from finding them whilst scavenging through bins. In many cases the animals will require surgery to remove bone shards, splinters and blockages, but it can also prove fatal.
“We ask owners to never feed their pets cooked bones, and to also dispose of any bones left over from their own meal safely and securely to avoid pets seeking them out again.”
Bullshit.
Dogs ate bones of every kind. You don't think feral dogs ate bones of fowl before they were domesticated ?
What you find about animals of all kinds when they are domesticated is that humans breed for traits that they desire. Centuries ago animals were bred for utility, name the animal. Horses, dogs, cats. But the last 50-100 years animals have lost their utility. So we have 'pets' instead of working animals. When humans did that they started to breed for appearance instead of functionality. This is why we have 1500 hundred pound horses with Number 0 feet. Why we have Bulldogs that would likely not be live born without a vets help, and if they are born will suffer a life of pain.
The best dogs today are mutts. If you want to know what to look for in a hound, look to Xenophon.
In the first place, this true type of hound should be of large build; and, in the next place, furnished with a light small head, broad and flat in the snout,1 well knit and sinewy, the lower part of the forehead puckered into strong wrinkles; eyes set well up2 in the head, black and bright; forehead large and broad; the depression between the eyes pronounced;3 ears long4 and thin, without hair on the under side; neck long and flexible, freely moving on its pivot;5 chest broad and fairly fleshy; shoulder-blades detached a little from the shoulders;6 the shin-bones of the fore-legs should be small, straight, round, stout and strong; the elbows straight; ribs7 not deep all along, but sloped away obliquely; the loins muscular, in size a mean between long and short, neither too flexible nor too stiff;8 flanks, a mean between large and small; the hips (or “couples”) rounded, fleshy behind, not tied together above, but firmly knitted on the inside;9 the lower or under part of the belly10 slack, and the belly itself the same, that is, hollow and sunken; tail long, straight, and pointed;11 thighs (i.e. hams) stout and compact; shanks (i.e. lower thighs) long, round, and solid; hind-legs much longer than the fore-legs, and relatively lean; feet round and cat-like.12
Hounds possessed of these points will be strong in build, and at the same time light and active; they will have symmetry at once and pace; a bright, beaming expression; and good mouths.
https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/x/xenoph ... pter4.html
