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Index of Subjects --001a1134660063732b052091fa48 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Hard to say with wild animals but as a vet I can certainly verify that domestic dogs often can't process bones and they can indeed cause splintering, puncture, and perforation. I have personally done surgery on several occasions to remove bones from dogs that have gotten intestinal blockage from bones. I assume this may happen in wildlife occasionally but hard to know whether it can be fatal...though I'm sure it is uncomfortable. I promise they splinter when chewed...I've also removed bones from the rectum or anus of dogs that made it through the intestine but then wedge sideways when the dog is trying to defecate...these bones are very sharp and can definitely cause laceration. Helene Helene Van Doninck DVM Cobequid Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre 2220 Irwin Lake Rd Brookfield NS Canada B0N1C0 902-893-0253 helene.birdvet@gmail.com <birdvet@hotmail.com> www.cwrc.net Find us on Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/pages/Cobequid-Wildlife-Rehabilitation-Centre/134671693239334> and Twitter <https://twitter.com/CobequiWildlife> On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Randy Lauff <randy.lauff@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, there's a subject line you don't see every day. > > I have a borrowed trail cam out and got a nice pic of a coyote; I bait > with supper left overs like chicken parts. One person I shared it with was > aghast that I would do this..."chicken bones will splinter in their > intestines". > > I can't see this happening...they'll splinter when they're chewed, *maybe > (?) *a bit more due to the churning of the stomach. The intestine just > isn't strong enough to cause splintering. And I have heard not to feed your > dog chicken bones because of the threat of splinters. Yet wild animals eat > birds all the time, and I have come across scads of scats in my decades in > the woods with splintered bone. > > Can anyone resolve this conundrum? Why can wild mammals tolerate the bones > while domestics (apparently) can not? > > Thanks, > Randy > _________________________________ > RF Lauff > Way in the boonies of > Antigonish County, NS. > --001a1134660063732b052091fa48 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr">Hard to say with wild animals but as a vet I can certainly= verify that domestic dogs often can't process bones and they can indee= d cause splintering, puncture, and perforation. I have personally done surg= ery on several occasions to remove bones from dogs that have gotten intesti= nal blockage from bones. I assume this may happen in wildlife occasionally = but hard to know whether it can be fatal...though I'm sure it is uncomf= ortable. I promise they splinter when chewed...I've also removed bones = from the rectum or anus of dogs that made it through the intestine but then= wedge sideways when the dog is =C2=A0trying to defecate...these bones are = very sharp and can definitely cause laceration.=C2=A0<div><br></div><div>He= lene</div></div><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><br clear=3D"all"><div><div clas= s=3D"gmail_signature"><div dir=3D"ltr"><div><div dir=3D"ltr"><div><div dir= =3D"ltr"><div><div dir=3D"ltr"><div>Helene Van Doninck DVM<br>Cobequid Wild= life Rehabilitation Centre<br></div><div>2220 Irwin Lake Rd Brookfield NS C= anada B0N1C0<br>902-893-0253<br><a href=3D"mailto:birdvet@hotmail.com" targ= et=3D"_blank">helene.birdvet@gmail.com</a><br><a href=3D"http://www.cwrc.ne= t" target=3D"_blank">www.cwrc.net</a><br></div><div><div><div>Find us on <a= href=3D"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Cobequid-Wildlife-Rehabilitation-Ce= ntre/134671693239334" target=3D"_blank">Facebook</a>=C2=A0and <a href=3D"ht= tps://twitter.com/CobequiWildlife" target=3D"_blank">Twitter</a><br></div><= div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><= /div> <br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Randy Lauff= <span dir=3D"ltr"><<a href=3D"mailto:randy.lauff@gmail.com" target=3D"_= blank">randy.lauff@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class=3D"= gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-= left:1ex"><div dir=3D"ltr">Well, there's a subject line you don't s= ee every day.<div><br></div><div>I have a borrowed trail cam out and got a = nice pic of a coyote; I bait with supper left overs like chicken parts. One= person I shared it with was aghast that I would do this..."chicken bo= nes will splinter in their intestines".</div><div><br></div><div>I can= 't see this happening...they'll splinter when they're chewed, <= i>maybe (?)=C2=A0</i>a bit more due to the churning of the stomach. The int= estine just isn't strong enough to cause splintering. And I have heard = not to feed your dog chicken bones because of the threat of splinters. Yet = wild animals eat birds all the time, and I have come across scads of scats = in my decades in the woods with splintered bone.</div><div><br></div><div>C= an anyone resolve this conundrum? Why can wild mammals tolerate the bones w= hile domestics (apparently) can not?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div>= <div>Randy<br clear=3D"all"><div><div>_________________________________<br>= RF Lauff<br>Way in the boonies of<br>Antigonish County, NS.</div></div> </div></div> </blockquote></div><br></div> --001a1134660063732b052091fa48--
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