Can you feed a bone off of a pork chop to a dog?

Question

We had pork chops for dinner and we were wondering... Can you give a dog a pork chop bone to chew on or is the bone to soft??? thanks!

Answer 1

If the bones is cooked give it a miss - edible raw bones are fine though. If you live in Canada, the US or Australia and bought the pork from a store there are no worries about feeding it raw to your dog either - this is an old wives tale that has foundations in wild caught boar. There is no need to over cook pork for yourself either - eat it juicy and tender!!

People will be very quick to give your all sorts of horror stories about bones but through my research I have found that raw bones rarely, if ever, cause problems. Dogs choke on, or have intesinal problems with, toys, socks, raw hides, kibble and cooked bones (to name just a few) NOT appropriately sized raw bones. ** By the way, large shin, marrow and knuckle bones DO NOT fit this category - they are too large to be edible and may break your dogs' teeth.

Dogs are carnivores therefore designed to eat raw meat, bones and offal. This is the best way to maintain the health of your pet and there are an increasing number of informed vets that recommend this type of feeding. To say that no vet recommends feeding raw meaty bones is an outrageous statement with no basis in fact. >: (

Some dogs when first started on a natural diet of raw meat and bones MAY vomit up some bone in the first week or so - this is only because their stomachs have been used to eating cooked kibble and mush. As their stomach juices adjust to the correct natural pH this stops very quickly.

Answer 2

Some raw bones are safe but I would not give my dog a pork chop bone, there are too many sharp points on them. Go to the butchers and get your dog one of the big knuckle bones. They are huge, the dog will love it and you can take it away and give it to him again some other day. If there is any meat on it, you will want to refrigerate or freeze it until ready to give it to him again. Let him get all the meat off when you give it to him the second time.

Never give a dog a cooked bone, they are brittle and will shatter making sharp shards that can puncture their stomach, intestines or as the very least, inside their mouth.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

NO.
Pork is bad for dogs period, and pork bones splinter too much - could rupture the dog's intestines.

You can only give hard, thick bones that won't split or splinter - if you are not sure, don't give it.
Buy some pigs hoofs or CET chews instead.
CETs don't swell in the dog's intestines the way rawhide chews can, plus they have an enzyme that helps prevent tartar build up.
You can do an online search and find them, cheaper than getting them at a vet's.

Answer 5

Pork bones are usually sharp, plus as stated cooked bones are too soft.
Bones can also upset the dogs stomach, you don't want an inside dog with an upset stomach.
Feed them dog treats they'll never know what they're missing.

Answer 6

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Several parts to this question: First you are right a dog is quite able to eat and digest raw meat (any meat) because their digestive system and teeth are very different to ours. Their stomachs are far more acidic then ours, to aid in digestion of raw meat and bone, also reducing any risk of salmonella and their digestive tract is much shorter so bacteria like salmonella doesn't have as much time to multiply and reach harmful levels. This marvelous adaptation has occured over thousands of years and enables dogs to safely consume raw meat and bone. If I ate what my dog ate, I would be dead. Simple. Now to the subject of bones. Dogs are designed to eat RAW bone NOT cooked. Cooking them and feeding them as some people suggested is incredibly dangerous and could very likely result in a dead dog. This is because once the bone is cooked, the dog is no longer able to digest it properly and as a result sharp shards can pass along the dogs digestive tract and puncture the dogs intestine (death if untreated). It can also cause death by causing blockages in the gut, again because the dog cant digest cooked bone, so even if it is not sharp it can still cause death. Cooked meat with no bone is safe for them to eat, but it is unnecessary. Raw is fine. HOWEVER, chop bones (even when raw) are one of the bones I don't feed, for several reasons. Some large bones are very hard and while a dog can chew on them safely they are not normally able to break them into pieces small enough to swallow. But chop bones are cut and therefore a small hard bone that can be swallowed and while your dog would probably be ok, I would not risk feeding small hard, cut bone. Especially because these hard bones are often cut into very un-natually sharp pieces. Also, sometimes they are cut with hot saws (to get through the hard bone), which can partially cook the edges of the bone. What I would do is defrost the chops and then cut off all the meat and feed that to your dog raw. But ditch the chop bones. Cook it if it makes you feel better, but either way - Chuck the bone. For the record - Safe SOFT raw bones to feed are: Chicken (they are very soft and highly digestable) Beef brisket Lamb flaps Turkey Fish - yes even fish bones raw are ok. Rabbit To name but a few. EDIT: Clarification - @Wild wolf - Everything you said was right about raw feeding, except that the reason you cant feed cooked bone is not because it goes soft (that would be fine if it did - that is what happens to raw bone). It is actually because cooked bone DOESN'T soften once in the stomach, but intead it stays rigid and hard and the hard sharp splinters can purforate the gut as they pass through. It is ONLY raw bone that becomes soft, because of the dogs acidic stomach and so as it passes through them it is safe SOFT and digestable. The softer the bone the easier and more digestable it is. Logical really.

Answer 7

I feed my dog pork chop bones. The only bones I know not to give to dogs is poultry bones because they can splinter. We have never had a problem with pork or beef bones.

Answer 8

Yes, Dogs can eat all kinds of bones. I have two large dogs and they eat everything from birds to gophers to pork chop and chicken bones. Some people don't want to feed these small bones to their house pets, but all dogs have the natural instinct. they are carnavors. They will do o.k if you feed them bones. My dogs will have the pork chop bone demolished in less than a minute. So don't worry, but a word to the wise, feed it to your dog outside. Small dogs like to hide the bones and large dogs can get messy....

Answer 9

It's not recommended to give bones. I know that poultry bones are too soft, I'm unsure of pork bones. They might be acceptable, but you'll have to supervise, and if the dog is able to break it apart, then remove the bone from the dog.

Answer 10

I wouldn't if I was you. myself and my husband were looking after our friends Staffy for three weeks, we went to a BBQ in the summer and the dog came with us.
A couple of people were giving her bones, I didn't really want them to and I was right.

The next day she was not very well, she kept being sick and would throw up the bones that she ate and was not a happy dog for a couple of days!
I wouldn't recommend it.
Hope this helped...x