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Sat 15 Dec, 2012 05:33 pm
Of course I can research this and will, but I'm interested in a2k dog peoples' take on baked beef ribs. I can/will even call the vet - but I'll ask here for your takes.
Katy has gotten to be near hysterical at the sight of a Merrick Ranger rib. The apparently wise store told me not to worry about them, they are safe. Some people post that they splinter - and yes, they do, I guess that is part of the joy.
So far so good on those.
Meantime, I've been baking beef or pork ribs for myself, using a Thai marinade without the listed onion or scallion bits. But now I have the leftover ribs gnawed by me, and I'm wondering if those are safe, in contrast to the manufactured beef rib products. Yes, I probably leave my saliva on the bone, but I wash it, and besides, my saliva has lysozyme. Plus, there is the microwave at hand.
What if I don't touch the rib (what a horrible idea!) But, just suppose. Then would it be ok?
@ossobuco,
we get the butcher to cut real small sections of soup bones so that the doigs can gnaw on them outside.
Lotsa people dont give dogs ANY bones but I think that they need some chewie sport and burying and fake pack activitioes.
SO dont take mine as any wisdom based thing. I just feel that some dogs need to gnaw. Its great fun for them to play "keep away" with a bone in their mouth. Ive seen my dog gnaw on road kill so I dont think Id wory about fingerprints. ANyway, the dogs need some antibody/antigen action.
Dont be afraid of their food.
@farmerman,
I getcha. I was just worried about splintering. I think bones are good for her teeth. She's a wolf, after all.
@ossobuco,
Katy the Urban Wolf.
I do know that once bones or bone splinters make it to the stomach, all is good. A dog can digest just about anything nature sends her way. As for the throat, I'm reasonably sure it's only poultry bones that present a problem, though I can't cite the authority.
@roger,
When I was a boy we always fed our chicken bones to the dog, a half cocker spaniel. He never appeared to have any problems with it. The dog I have now has never had a chicken bone but once, when I dropped one on the floor. I have given her many a beef bone, however.
@ossobuco,
Hi, Osso,
When Maxie was young, we thought that giving him beef bones that we'd baked ourselves was a good idea because he loves to gnaw and we wanted to give him a treat. He cracked two teeth. They both had to be extracted.
@mckenzie,
Oh, mckenzie, thanks for telling me that!
I'll just make a broth with them now.
@ossobuco,
I'm finding a lot of stern NOs online re cooked beef bones, some stern NOs on beef bones at all, and some say only raw knuckle bones from a butcher. The more I read, the more differing but insistent opinions. Well, a call to Katy's vet is in order.
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