And always, always supervise your pet when they get a new toy until you're as sure as you can ever be that the toy is not a potential hazard. Make sure all toys and things you feed to your animal are safe for YOUR particular animal. Ultimately, though, I think it's about a larger lesson every pet owner needs to learn. Labs seem especially prone to that kind of behavior, and I've seen dogs very sick because they got blockages due to ingesting large pieces of rawhide or nearly whole pigs ears. Rawhides can be dangerous-as people have said-if dogs eat them quickly without breaking them down enough. I saw a puppy who was given the wrong size of Kong and almost died because he inhaled the whole thing. But time and again I've seen that's not true. Sadly, most people think-and understandably so-that something sold specifically for a certain kind of animal has to be safe. When I worked at a clinic we often recommended that people not use pigs ears or rawhide, mostly because a lot of people do not supervise their dogs with toys. I think every dog is different and as a result different things work for different dogs with different results! It's more a matter of me knowing THIS dog and his chewing and eating habits and then being aware of how that relates to creating a potential hazard and then avoiding doing exactly that - creating a potential hazard.

I *did* when he was smaller, but now it poses a very obvious danger because he chews so quickly and likes to swallow large chunks, rather than chew them into smaller pieces. The dog I have now is much larger and I will not under any circumstance feed him that stuff now. Saying that, I used to feed my dogs rawhide and bones and hooves and NEVER had a problem, but then they were smalllll dogs. A pug will likely have less a chance of ingesting sharp pieces of a cooked bone than say like my destructive chewer of a pit bull puppy who would shred a bone to pieces within a hour easy.īut that an uncooked bone isn't as likely to pose a foreign object obstruction like a cooked bone can and of course present a bowel perforation potential that a raw bone would not. This likely though largely depends on the breed. Interestingly enough, it is said that you shouldn't cook a bone that you plan to feed to a dog, that it is the cooking that makes the bone dangerous.

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