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My "pack" of six have been on raw for a couple of years now and look great - brilliant white teeth just for starters!

However, I currently have a lab staying with me for a couple of nights and she happened to "steal" a small bone from one of my bags of raw from the butcher. She thoroughly enjoyed it, and I thought nothing more of it. (I never give raw or bones to any visiting dogs without their owners' consent, but in this case, she simply dived into a bag of raw on the kitchen floor and helped herself.)

Cutting a very long story short, next day, I had a call from my daughter (who was walking said visiting dog) to say that visiting dog had tried to "go" but the deposit was stuck.....OH, former charge nurse, had a look and was quite concerned, so I rushed her to the vet.

All fine now but "blockage" appears to be due to dog eating a bone!!! Vet told me not to feed bones to my dogs!

My dogs LOVE raw and bones - I've never had a problem!

Over to you lot on the Forum......anyone had problems with raw/bones?
 
It takes a while for their systems to cope: my lot passed lots of bone to start with until their stomachs adapted. I'm surprised she had problems passing it if it was only small. :confused:
 
Never had any issue. I am a recent convert to raw feeding but our dogs have ALWAYS had large raw bones.
TBH the end result is one of the best bits of the diet IMO, small, hard, infrequent and if you really wanted :p and you didn't have any bags, you could just pick them up and toss them into the bin with your hands.

Today mine has had a large chicken leg, a beef bone as a time-waster and a Kong full of tripe and he'll have another Kong later.
He does strain sometimes if he has had a bone-heavy day but it always comes out.

I suspect the issue with the lab is that it has never had a bone before and that is where the problem has come from.
 
CaveCanem said:
I suspect the issue with the lab is that it has never had a bone before and that is where the problem has come from.
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I'm guessing this as well - R came to us on a dry complete diet (with liquid poop :rolleyes:) and he passed pieces of bone for about two weeks following the change in diet. One he got up to speed it was dry pellets/occasional dust like the other one. :p
 
My pups have always eaten raw, but Quigley passed fairly large bits of bone when he first started on it - they never got stuck though, he passed them with no problems. Maybe he just has a big butt :D

I agree with the others - probably just because the lab was new to bones.
 
Probably because she is not use to raw and a coincidence.

My Labs are raw fed and have bones, they can be quite 'compacting' and often after bones their poo is white and chalky. They might strain a bit to go but I never worry about it. That is what keeps their anal glands clear. I doubt this dog was use to having to strain so gave up more easily than dogs that are use to raw bones.

It is so easy to worry far more about other people's dogs than your own!
 
Did it get to the bone after it's dried crappy food? They travel through the system at different speeds so can cause a bit of compaction.

Vet's generally do not get raw, they have usually been indoctrinated on their course by the feed companies and genuinely believe in may cases that a carnivore should be close to a vegetarian! Plus of course raw diet looses them revenue at both ends so to speak!

I suspect as suggested above, the dog was not used to straining and whimped out of trying, if it was mine I would have gotten it chasing a stick and running around as that usually helps with one of mine when he has had a lot of bone, but it is always better to be safe with other peoples dogs!

CC you are now a true convert!
 
Some vets are more enlightened, when my daughter and her bf took their puppy to the vet they were asked what they were feeding her, they replied raw and the vet was very pleased and said its a shame more people dont feed raw. They have only changed recently to this vet as the one before when told what they were feeding replied why she is not a wolf.:eek:
 
Visiting dog went home last night, no worse for her ordeal at the vet! My six have been on raw for about two and a half years now (Pippa Puppy, whose just over a year old, went onto raw when about five/six monts old) and I've never had a problem - ever! But visiting dog wasn't just straining - she was in a real state! Crying, shaking, drooling.......really in a bad way! I was seriously worried when I saw her! Biggest panic, two days later, was when very leggy Large Munsterlander (nothing is safe from him!:D) stole the turkey carcass from the back of the kitchen work surface on Boxing Day and shared it with visiting lab!!!!!!:eek: I was in ultra panic-mode and dosed visiting lab with castor oil (supplied by vet) but thankfully this time all was fine!:D

OH is dead against raw and would be in a state of panic if one of his two pampered poodles ever managed a sniff of my dogs' raw! Mind you, his toy poodle's teeth are DISGUSTING and even OH comments on how brilliant white my dogs's teeth are!:)
 
OMG, Dobiegirl....couldn't believe your daughter's vet's comment about raw feeding! Mind you, as I said originally, my vet told me not to feed bones.........didn't mention this to OH bearing in mind his feelings on the subject (see my post above!!).
 
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