charlottenicol
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is it ok to give my lab a cooked lamb bone?
lamb bone
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echodomino
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Mine have had them before no probs but you should be careful with cooked bones because they are more prone to splintering.
sloulou
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I would say don't give it.
Cooked bones can be dangerous for dogs as the cooking process makes them more brittle and more likely to splinter.
A raw lamb bone would be better.
Cooked bones can be dangerous for dogs as the cooking process makes them more brittle and more likely to splinter.
A raw lamb bone would be better.
Sooty
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No. Tempting as it is, they splinter really easily.
Weezy
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Oh dear, my dog has the joint bone every Sunday (not chicken)
spaniel
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If you feel you must feed bones they should be uncooked.
Weezy
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*hangs head in shame*
spaniel
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LOL, you can be blamed for not knowing something Weezy!!
I can remember when I had my first collie puppy years ago. I went to the butchers and asked if he had a cow bone i could give my dog. The butcher disappeared 'out the back' and came back with a cows thigh.....a whole cows thigh bone!!
It was HUUUUGE...poor dog got fed up with it very quickly as she couldnt even pick it up let alone get her mouth round it!
I can remember when I had my first collie puppy years ago. I went to the butchers and asked if he had a cow bone i could give my dog. The butcher disappeared 'out the back' and came back with a cows thigh.....a whole cows thigh bone!!
It was HUUUUGE...poor dog got fed up with it very quickly as she couldnt even pick it up let alone get her mouth round it!
Sooty
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I guess a lot depends on the dog, how powerful the jaws are and how big the bone is! I once gave Biffo a bone form a leg of lamb and he had it in shards in minutes, it just splintered dreadfully. I never give dogs pork anyway, and we rarely have beef on the bone. If your dog is a nibbler rather than a cruncher she should be ok, but as a general rule raw bones are preferable.
Weezy
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She nibbles, but she does splinter them too, so I take all the bits, she licks the marrowbone out, doesn't try and eat the shards - but you are right, just because this is something we have always done in my house (I go back to childhood here!) it doesn't mean it is safe!
Why do you never give your dogs pork? Not that we ever have pork bones, but do you mean the meat? I have a feeling it may be something to do with worms but am now entrigued!
Why do you never give your dogs pork? Not that we ever have pork bones, but do you mean the meat? I have a feeling it may be something to do with worms but am now entrigued!
charlottenicol
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OMG cooked lamb bone now in bin, but I have a haunch of venison in freezer and when I de-bone it for braising etc he always has the bone in fact he sits and 'woofs' at it until it is ready to work with. It really is a dogs life
Tia
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Weezy, what you can do with chicken bones/carcass.....simmer them in water for about 6 hours, this makes the bones totally crumble, like so much so that you can mush them with a fork. This is what I do for my dogs. I generally give mine raw meat and bones though, but same as Sooty I don't give pork uncooked to them. Isn't it fluke or something they get from raw pork?