raw bones for 12weeks gsd - Page 2

Find a meat market, go in and ask the butcher  to sell you a small bag of round steak bones...if he has them or save yu some and call you.....

they are safe...and occupy them and they love them....

Luvmidog,  thanks for your suggestions.

i'll buy chicken necks and will provide.

did you mean cut into small portion so she can chew it and can eat in a bite,  not the bigger size, right?

thanks

I feed a total raw diet, I start the pup's off on chicken thigh's, my vet also feeds the same...

"Langhaar" is 100% right about a dogs digestive system. I have never had any trouble feeding this way, I have a 14 year old 7 pound mutt that eats the same as my shepherds do, in two weeks I'll have my fifth shepherd and she at 8 weeks will be on a raw diet.

I NEVER give cooked bones, or bones from a pet store, I only give meat/bones that I myself would eat. Okay before any of you say something I do cook the food that I eat

Did I worry when I first started feeding a raw diet... Sure! The bone thing freaked me out! These are our babies and yes they are $$$$! But push come to shove they are dogs! How did they eat before we made them our companions, look at their teeth! My dogs have GREAT teeth, super white and very clean. And when feeding raw you will have less poop to clean up!!

Enjoy your new puppy!!

Right     I feel better if I just wack the backs up into smaller portions  / That way ypu make a selection of neck ,on back piece, and a wing   and then a slice of raw liver.....then add the kibble   at the other meal    feed the raw by itself    this makes the dog accustomed to eating correctly and not leave the kibble all yucky and have to throw away......

Never cook a bone    always raw....but pork rib bones are a little sharper    so I wait until pup is older to give them......gsds have a tendency, if high food drive to swallow whole and not chew ......scares me sometimes....

Did anyone see the Oprah show where the vet talked about the raw food diets.....I did not,,,,just keep hearing about it, but no one from the viewing has disclosed who he was or what he said.................I know he addressed the falsehood of  e-coli and salmanella     ....dogs are different digestion than us.....they will eat nasty and drink nasty and never look back    YUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUkkkkkkkkkkkkeeeeeeeee

How about lamb shanks.  Any body use those for feeding?  Or recreational chewing?

Anybody hear of a dog getting a blockage from bones?

I told my vets Tech that I feed RAW and she told me to be careful because one of the police dogs here was just in for that reason. Only thing I could think of, is that they fed too much bone and not enough meat and organs. I still feed RAW and probably always will off and on for my dogs. I too am not worried much about germs, they lick their asses for Gods sake! Mine will drink the grossest water they can find, eat dead decaying roadkill and whatever else. Never are they any worse for wear. A dog with a healthy immune system should be fine with RAW. From what I hear and see immune systems get better with time on it.

4pack,
Not from bones but I did have a boxer years ago that got a blockage from a corn cobb. After a terrible ordeal the dog needed surgery and the vet showed me a sock with a corn cobb in it. Evidently the kids next door were throwing ( flinging ) it for fetch and he swallowed it whole. Point being that if they can manage to swallow anything large, bones or what ever, that will not break down before it causes the blockage you could have problems. This is not something that I worry about though as I think the corn cobb thing was a freak accident that envolved him catching it, not just chewing on it.

Too much bone will cause impaction but so will too much most of anything, nothing in life is risk free.  Dogs have died from inhaling kibble, swallowing balls, sticks etc etc

thank you all for sharing info.

i'm thinking to provide her once or twice a week seperate raw bones for now.

thank you.

can i provide her chicken feet or chicken leg?

do i require to cut small pieces? i saw in grocery store only lower part of chicken feet.

i thought to give her but i just want to make sure.

thanks