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Subject: [Leica] Re: dogs
From: masonster at gmail.com (David Mason)
Date: Sun Dec 5 13:43:29 2004
References: <41B2DECD.4020009@planet.nl> <20041205153053.OWPK20869.fep17.inet.fi@jorglaptop> <6.2.0.14.2.20041205163734.0262cea8@mail.screengang.com> <CB74561F-4704-11D9-A75B-0003938C439E@btinternet.com>

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.
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Replies: Reply from cmbrow at wm.edu (Chandos Michael Brown) ([Leica] PAW 4)
Reply from msmall at aya.yale.edu (Marc James Small) ([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)
Message from Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com (Frank Dernie) ([Leica] Re: dogs)