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The bones I buy at All The Best (local pet store) look like femur bones, dense and heavy, 2-3" long.
I've heard you can lightly parboil bones to disinfect the outside and that this does not render the bones friable, like cooked bones, if you don't overdo it. We just give them to the dogs. We're slobs.
Usually they clean them up quite fast, but sometimes we take them away and refrigerate the first night.
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No broken teeth... yet... but I might break an ankle someday with all these beef bones obstructing the floor.
We give femur and knuckle. No broken teeth yet. The knuckle keeps them engaged much longer than the femur anyways and they will eat the entire thing up!
We have two sources for our knuckle bones. One is directly from the butcher which are cut and the other is from a company called Red Dog Blue Cat http://www.reddogdeli.com/ We purchase the small ones. I bought a large one for Mickey once and when he saw it I thought his head was gonna pop off he looked so excited! Haha....but it was really just too big for him.
We feed in the crate, on the floor, in the park when we sit and enjoy some sun while they chew in the grass...anywhere really. We leave them out until we give the next one then throw whatever is left away from the previous chewing session.
I wouldnt worry about decreasing their food when you give bones as long as you stick to your exercise regime. We do not anyways. This is just our experience with feeding raw bones. They love it and have such a blast chewing and working on it. Im sure a bomb could go off and no one would care or move.
yeah I have heard of several dogs chipping/cracking teeth on bones, mostly femur bones. I've also seen femur bones stuck around the bottom of their jaws that needed surgically removed. We actually had 2 of those at the vet last week.
I bought the "soup" bones, which are basically just the softer top of the femur bones and Franklin chews on them a bit but isn't able to get any big chunks off. The only thing is, after he has spent a few hours gnawing on and ingesting the bones he gets pretty constipated the next day and his stool is rock hard. Any suggestion in preventing this? I"m only giving him one a week and making sure it is the soft bone and not femur/weight bearing bones, he has good teeth from the dental diet I supplement him with, so maybe I'll just skip bones all together....
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