I’m at a family picnic and someone fed my dog a bone and didn’t tell me about it until later :mad: how concerned should I be? she’s a small dog - 13lbs - and he says she ate it. I don’t know if I should just keep an eye on her, or if I should get in touch with a vet. I’m getting conflicting info by searching google. what would you do?
if you had a problem you’d already know it.
I have had conflicting info about bones. While some (most) say never cooked, I have had somebody with 60 years of dog experience tell me cooked only.
But one or 2 rib bones should not cause trouble (btw, pork is on the never raw list - last time I looked).
dog might strain a bit to ‘go’ but I would not expect trouble.
Keep an eye on the dog and if he becomes listless, or vomiting or not wanting to eat later, take him to a vet. But he should be fine if he chewed it up first.
The cooking has to do with the type of critter.
Cooked chicken bones become very brittle, which is why they should not be fed cooked - easily splintered to then poke things. Raw chicken bones are “soft” in the scheme of things.
I don’t know what pork bones do - if they remain “soft” when cooked, they should be fine.
grr! why do people feel the need to feel other peoples animals?!?!! (smack forehead)
sorry about that, I just had to scold my husbands step father this weekend for feeding a slice of pita to our 10wk old pointer puppy, he is not yet ready for treats and please for the love ask us before you feed something to my dog
Cooked chicken bones are the real danger. Once cooked they become brittle and will snap. They aren’t really great raw either, but they should cause less problems.
Our dogs have gotten into the rib-bones in the garbage many many times (as much as we try to keep them out - I’ve started taking those tasty treats right out to the garbage outside). They’ve never had a problem.
We feed beef bones raw and cooked all the time.
raw pork rib bones are really soft and easily devoured by dogs (and commercial raw pork is perfectly safe to feed to dogs), and even after cooking pork ribs are rather soft. I doubt a 13-pound dog could swallow one whole, so it probably got chewed up and will just pass. And you’ll just watch carefully for signs of obstruction/ pain in the dog for a few days.
Cooked, heat-treated, or smoked bones from any species should never be fed to dogs- raw bones are digestible by the dog’s digestive tract, but once heat-treated the risk of splintering into sharp innards shredding pieces goes way up, and once heat-treated the bones are usually not digestible and have to pass through the dog, risking an impaction.
The worst are those smoked bones they sell in pet stores- people think they are “safe” because it’s being sold by a pet store, but they aren’t. My dogs, who can devour and digest raw bones with no problem (including entire raw lamb femurs), ended up puking up bone shards/ pooping out scary sharp bone shards after someone gave me some smoked lamb femurs as a gift.
Beef bones are usually too hard for dogs to actually chew up and consume; instead they gnaw on them and swallow small fragments, so a big cooked beef bone might be fairly safe. Except that dogs fed hard beef bones have a high risk of fracturing their teeth (painful slab fractures of the hind molars are most common).
Our dog snatched a large cooked rib out of my nephew’s hand. My SO is a DVM, so we just watched the dog for a few days to make sure that he didn’t get blocked (painful abdomen, vomiting, etc). We were on foreign-body-surgery high alert for several days. I don’t think we ever saw him poop it out, but the dog ended up fine.
Cooked pork bones = explosive diarrhea for most dogs.
Other than some…expressive poop, I wouldn’t expect much. Pork bones crumble and chew down. Beef can last for MONTHS (my dogs enjoy chewing on their smoked beef bone, long after the beef smoke flavor is gone. I figure it’s better than the one’s old habit of chewing on rocks. Nice dog, not always the sharpest knife in the drawer, if you take my meaning.)
Chicken bones can be like eating needles. Then I’d worry.
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grr! why do people feel the need to feel other peoples animals?!?!! (smack forehead)[/QUOTE]
I’d be ripping someone a new something if you follow my meaning…
I wouldn’t worry too much. Pup will probably have to go out quite a bit more often than normal, and I’d keep a close eye that pup doesn’t become listless or pass any blood.
