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My border terrier pup is currently very bored and scuttling round the house causing chaos at home (mother just messaged me!)

I was just looking for some chews on the internet, but if you put in rawhide and danger in google you get tons of people (americans) saying you shouldn't feed rawhide

Is there truth in this? Are the UK products different to the american ones?

Are pressed bones better than knots? Help
 
I give my dog rawhide shoes, bones and knots and never had a problem, would say that some are best not given to them when they are left on their own as they could choke, that's the only reason why I could think that they would be classed as dangerous!
 
Likewise, I don't feed them just because they go slimy and get covered in fluff ( I do have a very fluffy house
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) but if I did I still wouldn't leave a dog with one because of the choking thing. Why not get a treat ball or a nice big kong to stuff with goodies?
 
I cannot leave the borders with treat balls or kongs as one rips them apart and then eats them.

Anything plastic is banned after she still had bits in her tummy 3 days later, but fortunately managed to sick it up.

I was thinking chews more to kep her occupied, she is not causing any harm, but whingeing at mum as she wants to do things (does horses in the morning and evening and generally talks mum into an afternoon walk too).
 
I read something about arsenic in rawhide - found it after googling on this site:
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However - I think so long as you are buying something made in the UK - it should be ok in terms of arsenic? Same goes for Pigs ears - they need to be whole ears - from european source ideally - eg. the ones they sell on Zooplus or in pet shops loose? Or you can dry your own
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I wouldn't feed my dog rawhide chews personally... but he gets the occasiopnal pigs ear..

Anyway - if I were you I would get a massive cow leg bone piece (eg hip joint or section of femur) raw - from butchers and give to dogs - keeps them occupied for ages
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They can't crunch them up like smaller bones - but can spend ages gnawing them.
 
I give my dogs rawhide bones, they like them, less goes to waste after slaughter and gnawing helps keeping their teeth clean. I've had one dog that nearly chocked on gnaw bones three times, only one time it was a true rawhide, the other two times it was so called safe gnaw bones that she greedily tried to swallow without proper gnawing. By the way was it a black Kong? Not that they're indestructible, but they should last longer than the reds.


Since it's good for them to gnaw, this isn't meant as a suggestion to not give her gnaw bones, but maybe her brain needs to be more tired before she gets them? If you don't have any brain-training toys at home and doesn't want to do more regular training such as f. ex. searching for treats/toys/keys, I have several brain-training toys made by Nina Ottosson, the Dog Tornado Wood is my dogs favourite.

http://www.nina-ottosson.com/DogProducts.htm

As I understand it, Prose's Stella's favourite is http://www.boston-terrier-challenge.com/tests/busy-buddy-twist-treat.html

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ETS I forgot to say that my girls are very keen on their Cow Knee-joints, though they're so hard it sounds as if they where a rock, if you drop them on the floor, even they disappear eventually.
 
When you say pup, how young is it? As I don't like to feed anything like that to a young pup.

If buying rawhides or pigs ears, I go for ones that have been sourced/made in the UK
 
I think this may be a monster I created - I have started taking her out with the horses, so she is fitter and now thinks she should be doing fun things all the time! (Plus when they went out with mother last week they came accross a woman walking 2 cats, so have been terribly keen about walks for a bit!!
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It was a red kong that got eaten, they seem to enjoy ripping things apart (fortunately they do stick to toys!). I will consider bones, but the only hitch is they want to bring them in the house on the carpet.
 
I buy the Cow Knee-joints at the Dog Shop where I buy my dogs food from, doesn't look like a knee anymore, it resembles this human version I found on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gray246.png

I can't promise anything because we don't have many carpets on our floors, but I don't think there's any marks on the dog-beds after them gnawing on one of those. So personally, I wouldn't worry about them wanting to gnaw on them indoors.

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I worry about them too but I do give my pup (9 mths old) chews under supervision. I avoid the ones with the knots on the end as they come off and I worry he will swallow it in one.
 
I don't feed my dogs any rawhide chews anymore, not the hard one or the softer crunchy ones. The main reason is because most of the chews that are available in my area are manufactured in China and I won't have my dogs eat squooshed up dead dogs/cats with millions of chemicals to preserve them.

I do buy them dehydrated chicken pieces (made in usa, so safe) and they love them but they don't last long as my dogs crunch them up into pieces within minutes. Mainly I give my dogs real bits of dead cows from the butcher.
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Personally wouldn't touch them. It may say 100% rawhide but they're bleached.

What about dried liver, pigs ears, venison tongue e.t.c? Far better.
 
Well I have just been to Tesco's who are doing a special pets section at the moment and have bought some rawhide rolls, without knots and not pressed.

However as they are bright white, suspect they have been bleached. However made by "good boy" so hoping not made out of dogs !!
 
I give my dogs rawhide bones occasionally, never the ones with the knots though, my previous dog nearly choked on the knot once when it went all soggy and fell apart, I did manage to save him that time, he did eventually die at the age of 15 from a choking accident with a peice of chicken, tragic! The dogs I have now I never give knotted rawhide bones to, just the whole ones.
 
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