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Subject: [Leica] Re: dogs
From: Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com (Frank Dernie)
Date: Sun Dec 5 13:28:08 2004
References: <41B2DECD.4020009@planet.nl> <20041205153053.OWPK20869.fep17.inet.fi@jorglaptop> <6.2.0.14.2.20041205163734.0262cea8@mail.screengang.com>

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.
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Replies: Reply from masonster at gmail.com (David Mason) ([Leica] Re: dogs)
In reply to: Message from nathan.wajsman at planet.nl (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] Re: dogs)
Message from jorg.willems at pp.inet.fi (Jorg Willems) ([Leica] Re: dogs)
Message from rangefinder at screengang.com (Didier Ludwig) ([Leica] Re: dogs)