Normal to throw up a bone sometimes? - Page 1

I don't feed raw all the time, maybe once or  twice a week the pup will get a chicken leg quarter or a beef neck bone or other beef bone.

I've only actually saw it twice...no bone in crate at bedtime..wake up in morning, a bone in the crate.

Both times it has been a small beef bone maybe 2 1/2 " long about 3/8" wide.

Just wondering if normal and why it happens?

Pup is 3 months old.

Thx!
Zep--

Yes, and probably a good thing.  He didn't chew it small enough, and it is probably the bodies way of getting rid of it before it enters the intestinal tract.  

Raw bones are softer, easier to digest and won't splinter, but from what I've heard, they can still occasionally  become lodged in the intestine.

I grind chicken backs for my dogs. Giving a dog whole chicken bones and breakable beef bones from adult animals is playing Russian roulette with your dog. Any bone such as whole chicken bones chatter and if you feed kibble at the same time, the bone won't stay in the gut long enough to digest. Feeding any breakable beef bones should be from animals younger than year old, preferably weanling age. Safest to give ends of long bones from beef.

Don't feed raw with kibble- but not because the bones won't digest. It's so the pathogens don't get enough time to take up residency and make the dog sick. 

Jenni, could you explain in more detail. What I have seen in feeding raw bones and kibble at the same time is that the bones come out the same way they went in. Bones take a long time to digest, whereas kibble can act as almost a laxative pushing everything through the gut too quickly.

Yes it is perfectly normal for a dog to throw up a bone sometimes.

Sure, Joanro. The real problem with feeding kibble and ANY kind of raw meat, bones or not, is that IF there is anything nasty in it (salmonella, e.coli, etc.) the kibble takes so long to digest that the raw kind of gets held there and the bacteria, viruses, parasites, etc. have the time to make the dog sick. If they only ate the raw food and no kibble, their very short digestive tract and its very strong acids would have that stuff digested and out of the body in no time flat, leaving little chance for illness to result. But kibble takes soooo long to digest, that if there is raw sitting there waiting to go through, those pathogens have ample time to make the dog sick. It's the same reason we get sick from things that don't bother a dog- it's all about digestion- time, stomach acids, etc. Kibble screws that all up, as it's an unnatural food. 

If I feed raw and kibble near each other, I make sure I feed raw in the morning and kibble at night or vice versa, so that the raw is out of the system before the kibble gets there. 

I am sure that having a stomach full of kibble will also impact bone digestion, and maybe that's why you see more bones being vomited up, but to me, that's secondary to the real issue of dangerous bacteria/pathogens. 

I have also found that once a dog gets its stomach enzymes where they should be, you hardly ever see that. I honestly haven't seen a thrown up bone in quite a long time in my dogs. I never grind anything. 

Thanks Jenni. You're right,Mixing kibble and raw chicken with bone doesn't work for whatever the reason.