Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/12/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I think it is cooked bones that are the risk. Not many wild dogs cook their birds before eatink AFAIK. Frank On 5 Dec, 2004, at 16:05, Didier Ludwig wrote: > It's more the degenareted, apartment-breeded kind of dogs, who are > used to eat canned wet food only, that can suffocate of chicken bones. > Wild dogs or natural breeds, like working sheepdogs, can just bite > anything without choking on it. I had a Sarplaninac dog, > http://tinyurl.com/6bvp5, grown up in flock of sheep in southern > Yugoslavia, who had the nasty habit to steal chickens from a farmer in > my neighbourhood. It costed me 10.- SFR every time. The farmer was > always astonished how fast the dog could gorge it and just leave the > feathers out. The dog died in the high age of 14 years because of > senile decay. > Didier > > >> A friend in Finland (Kuhmo) fed his dogs always chicken bones and >> never had >> a problem. His felt that God would have taught dogs not to eat that >> if it >> were bad for them. Like moose and rendeers don't eat poisenous >> mushrooms. >> J?rg >> >>> Karen, >>> I doubt that dogs in the wild (or wolves, more appropriately) manage >>> to >>> catch a lot of birds. Furthermore, we are talking about a risk, not a >>> certainty. I suspect that wild dogs have much shorter lifespans than >>> domestic ones, for many reasons, this being one of them. >>> Nathan >>> >>>> Karen Nakamura wrote: >>>> Be careful giving poultry bones to the dog. If the dog crushes the >>>> bone >>>> and swallows a part of it, the splintered bone can get lodged in the >>>> throat or intestines and require surgery. > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >