do you feed your dog chicken bones?

Question

i have just had some one tell me that he gives his dog chicken bones.I have a dog my self its a staffy but i dont give him chicken bones if you have a dog would you give your dog chicken bones???

Answer 1

No please dont feed your dog chicken bones , your doing the right thing.,hes an idiot.

Answer 2

It is ok to give your dog bones if they have not been cooked. Raw bones are OK! You can check this out with your vet, she will say the same. You have to remember that these are predatory animals, their bodies are fully equpied to eat anything that they would eat if they were wild animals, including raw bones. But they would not eat cooked bones, cooked bones splinter when they break because the marrow is all dried up. This can cause major problems. Raw bones will not splinter when knawed on. If you have a big dog, then the bone should be really big, so a chicken bone would not be good. You would do better with a cow knee or something like that. A smaller dog should have a smaller bone, but it should be a bone big enough that they can not break it in half with a couple of bites. The proper bone should be thick enough that it has to be knawed on over and over again, not chewed.

Answer 3

Don't feed your dog chicken bones. My boss's dog, (a staffy too oddly enough), had to have his dog operated on. Chicken bones splinter off and one had got lodged in his throat! The dog had a lump on his neck where it had caused an infection, it had gone unnoticed for some time until that point. The vet said that chicken bones should not be fed to dogs.

Answer 4

Bones from poultry or fish and any bones that can splinter can cause obstruction or laceration of stomach or intestines. Cooked, raw, doesn't matter. The point of giving the dog a raw bone is not that the dog will eat the bone, but rather crack the bone and fish out the marrow with their teeth and tongues. However, dogs do not have this knowledge anymore because dogs are not "wild", but domesticated animals who are now dependent upon people for their needs.

Answer 5

Yes I've given my dog chicken bones all his life and he's nice and healthy not like those stupid pet dogs that are only fed store bought dog food.
If a dog chokes on a bone it's a stupid dog. If you let your dog eat everything from the begining, he will learn how to properly eat any kind of bone and there are no problems. It's when you give a chicken bone to a dog who's never eaten anything but biscuits that you run into problems
The thing about them choking or getting their guts perforated is bull sh1t. just a bunch of paranoid americans who worship their pets more than their own kids.

Answer 6

The main reason that I've always been told not to feed chicken bones to dogs is that unlike other bones, chicken bones can splinter when being chewed on and the resulting splinter can severly damage all kinds of stuff on it's way out.

Answer 7

I have heard that it happens and I think it has more to do with dogs that haven't experienced eating them but i think it depends on if the dog has become use to eating them and has accustomed themselves to eating them there less likely to run the risk as I have grew up with feeding dogs all bones cooked and raw ( including chicken bones the only one I take out is the splinter bone in the leg) as all my family ( dad feed them that way, his dad feed them that way) have done it. All my dogs have been fine and healthy and none of them required any vet care because they have had cooked bones. And in away (may differ from ours) dogs do kind off cook bones as well when they burry them in the yard and than pull them out all rotten, stinky and partially cooked because of the heat in the ground. And dogs are scavengers and it is believed that that's how dogs where domesticated they relied on or scraps and garbage for food because it was easy.

Answer 8

I know of dogs dying from eating chicken bones.
Once in a long while a bone will stay sharp and strong enough to poke a hole through the intestines. It's not a pleasant death. When I was child we had to get emergency surgery on our family dog after she'd gotten into bones from a raid on the garbage. Those were pork chop bones. I would only give large beef bones which cannot splinter.

Answer 9

RAW chicken bones are fine. My dogs have had them from around 3 weeks old. It's when they are cooked they become dangerous as they become brittle & splinter. Bones are a good source of calcium and part of a dog's natural diet.

Answer 10

I have a dog and no way would she get chicken bones they splinter and can cause major problems with the digestive system and can in the extreme kill.

Answer 11

chicken bones are the worse bones around, never fed you dog these, they fracture and get stuck in the dogs throat or stomach causing lots of pain.

There are plenty of good bones around to give instead.