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Index of Subjects This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_59EGJDu8apqWQDtvkxluCA) Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline 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: > > > 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. > > > --Boundary_(ID_59EGJDu8apqWQDtvkxluCA) Content-type: text/html; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline <DIV>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. </DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>My experience, anyway.</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>Cheers!</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>Gayle MacLean</DIV><DIV>Dartmouth</DIV><DIV> </DIV><SPAN>On 09/25/15 09:55 AM, <B class=name>Randy Lauff </B><randy.lauff@gmail.com> wrote:</SPAN> <BLOCKQUOTE class=iwcQuote style="PADDING-LEFT: 13px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #00f 1px solid" cite=mid:CAKqJtz8V+fOrs-fLdYEFGF2Bi10qq7MW4UFEs9VtitkTpQ-jCQ@mail.gmail.com type="cite"> <DIV class="mimepart text html"> <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 (?) </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> <DIV> <DIV class=gmail_signature>_________________________________<br />RF Lauff<br />Way in the boonies of<br />Antigonish County, NS.</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV> </DIV> --Boundary_(ID_59EGJDu8apqWQDtvkxluCA)--
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