[NatureNS] digestive tracts of mammals

From: GayleMacLean <duartess@EastLink.ca>
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Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 10:33:35 -0300
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Certainly not intending to fire up any debate on diets for domestic pets, but I have been feeding raw; including whole chicken, bones and all, lamb meaty bones, to my English Springer Spaniels for years without so much as a burp, and have never had any kind of bowel obstruction or digestive issues. 
 
My experience, anyway.
 
Cheers!
 
Gayle MacLean
Dartmouth
 
On 09/25/15 09:55 AM, Randy Lauff <randy.lauff@gmail.com> wrote: 
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> Well, there's a subject line you don't see every day. 
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> 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".
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> 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.
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> Can anyone resolve this conundrum? Why can wild mammals tolerate the bones while domestics (apparently) can not?
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> Thanks,
> Randy
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> RF Lauff
> Way in the boonies of
> Antigonish County, NS.
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<DIV>Certainly not intending to fire up any debate on diets for domestic pets, but I have been feeding raw; including whole&nbsp;chicken, bones and all,&nbsp;lamb meaty bones, to my English Springer Spaniels for years without so much as a burp, and have never had any kind of bowel obstruction or digestive issues. </DIV><DIV>&nbsp;</DIV><DIV>My experience, anyway.</DIV><DIV>&nbsp;</DIV><DIV>Cheers!</DIV><DIV>&nbsp;</DIV><DIV>Gayle MacLean</DIV><DIV>Dartmouth</DIV><DIV>&nbsp;</DIV><SPAN>On 09/25/15 09:55 AM, <B class=name>Randy Lauff </B>&lt;randy.lauff@gmail.com&gt; wrote:</SPAN>
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<DIV dir=ltr>Well, there's a subject line you don't see 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 bones 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 (?)&nbsp;</I>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.</DIV><DIV><br /></DIV><DIV>Can anyone resolve this conundrum? Why can wild mammals tolerate the bones while domestics (apparently) can not?</DIV><DIV><br /></DIV><DIV>Thanks,</DIV><DIV>Randy<BR clear=all>
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<DIV class=gmail_signature>_________________________________<br />RF Lauff<br />Way in the boonies of<br />Antigonish County, NS.</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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