are bones good for a dogs health?

Answer 1

...............do what you want.


no chicken bones....


i give up.... ppl on his site totally suck.

Answer 2

In my humble opinion and I've had dogs my whole life, there is nothing a dog loves better than to dig into a good bone! But, it must be something that won't splinter, like any bird or some cooked pork will. I buy my marrow bones at the butcher and have them cut to only two inches in length, then they can get all of the marrow out and that is what they are after in the first place. They enjoy them so much! Yet they are done with them in a couple hours and I throw them away. I used to give my dogs sparerib bones and a couple times they choked a little and that was when I stopped that and checked into it (like you are) and found that the raw marrow bones are the solution.

Answer 3

No, bones are not good for a dogs health. Bones can be very dangerous to a dogs heath. I personally had to run my niece and her dog to the vet. He had to remove a round steak bone from the dogs mouth that it had jammed in so tight, he could not get it out without putting the dog under anesthesia. This was just a minor complication from a bone. There are many worse problems with giving dogs real bones.

Answer 4

YES there are excellent just never COOK the bone... cooking breaks down the calcium and structual integrity of the bone, causeing it to splinter. Bone splinters can cause severe digestion issues and sometimes death. Also dont give a LARGE dog a little itty bitty bone. Though only occasionally dogs do choke on small bones, dogs are dogs and for millenia they have eaten bones and they are as we see quiet popular in the world... numbering more than humans. I feed my 7 dogs a BARF diet which include all types of bones just not cooked.
PEOPLE OF THE WORLD HELLO what do you think dogs ate before there was kibble? Did they eat a double chocolate drizzled well prepared drench A1 steak sauce fillet minon? COME ON DOGS EAT BONES its natural... in the wild they eat BONES. If a dog goes outside and catches a rabbit or some animal and eats him raw and uncooked DOES HE IMMEDIATLY DIE from the BONES. PaPaPalease get real people.

Answer 5

If your dog is on a balanced diet, they don't need bones for good health. Bones have the potential to cause impactions or perforations in the intestinal tract. The risk of salmonella is a problem with raw chicken. Domestic dogs today have different digestive systems than the wild dogs they are descended from hundreds of years ago. You can't compare the two.

Answer 6

In a word --- YES
Dogs NEED bones for optimal health - but they have to be RAW. It is a total myth that bones are dangerous, and it is a total myth that chicken bones are dangerous. (My dogs have been living happily on chicken bones - and others- for the past 11 years). What IS dangerous, is to feed COOKED bones to a dog - and that can't be stressed enough.
Most of us have grown up having instilled in our brains by advertising and misinformed people (including many vets) into believing that dogs need a specially formulated, balanced diet of kibble... nothing could be further from the truth.
I feel could write a book about the subject, I feel so very strongly about it - but there are already plenty of good, well researched books about this subject on the market.
My advice to the person who asked - Please buy one of those books and study it. It will be an eye opener. Personally I like Dr. Ian Billinghurst and his book "Give your dog a bone". He has a no-nonsense approach, which I like. I find it humorous, easy to read and understand, and within the past 11 years of me feeding my dogs a raw meaty bone diet, have not yet come across a single question that I could not find an answer to in the book.

On a personal note - both of my dogs suffer(ed) from autoimmune diseases. The oldest (now dead) lived for 9 of his 10 years with a disease called MMM (masticatory muscle myositis) on a combination medication of steroids and immuno-suppressants. It was due to his raw diet (with the encouragement of my vet) that his system was able to tolerate this very toxic medication for 9 years. Anybody familiar with steroids and its side effects will understand what I am talking about. In my opinion he would have been dead within a couple of years on kibble.

Christina

Answer 7

I was told that the rawhide ones are good for their teeth and are not high in calories like treats so that they are a good choice for dogs but that the actual bones from steaks etc are not a good idea because they splinter and can cause a lot of digestive track problems etc and I personally have found that to be true with my 2 dogs in most cases where I have given them the
real as opposed to the rawhide.
Sally

Answer 8

You never want to give a dog fish bones, chicken bones and some pork bones because they splinter and dogs can choke on em. Big beef and big pork bones (stripped off most all the meat) are actually good for them because it helps keep their teeth clean, and they make a dog happy. I will toss my dog a T-bone on occasion with a little meat on it just for a treat.....beef rib bones I find they tend to like the most and they last a long time. The reason not to give them with much meat is they are not used to it, so the rich meats will often upset the dogs tummy.

GL

Answer 9

Yes, they can, but there are rules to giving bones.

Cooked bones are a bad idea as they tend to be brittle. The best part of bones is the marrow.

Avoid cooked bones.

Avoid bones from cattle that are weight bearing leg bones. They are too hard for most dogs.

My dogs love chicken bones which I ONLY give raw and they are supple and not brittle when given raw.

Answer 10

I have heard that actual bones from a steak or chicken dinner you had are not good. They can splinter and cut the dog's throat or puncture intestines. I would highly recommend Nylabones. They last a long time and my dogs love them. The also do not break off and splinter.
"Chewing" is good for a dog's health because it relieves stress and cleans the teeth.

Answer 11

actually, it's best not to give your dog real bones. They can splinter and break off in chunks, and can cause bowel impaction or perferation. If you do give him real bones, use beef or possibly pork. Chicken bones splinter far too easily and your dog can choke or otherwise seriously get hurt.