Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/12/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My dog has caught a handful of birds in his 6 years of life - all within a 1/2 acre lot. Its quite impressive until he tries to bring the carcasses indoors. Dave On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 21:29:50 +0000, Frank Dernie <frank.dernie@btinternet.com> wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >