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Index of Subjects --047d7bacbcf28a744205209297b6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cooking degrades the collagen in bones, making them more brittle. Could this be a contributing factor? Overall, pets would be more likely to eat cooked foods than wild animals. On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 10:33 AM, GayleMacLean <duartess@eastlink.ca> wrote: > 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. > > > -- Ronald G. Arsenault Halifax, Nova Scotia --047d7bacbcf28a744205209297b6 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr">Cooking degrades the collagen in bones, making them more b= rittle.=C2=A0 Could this be a contributing factor? Overall, pets would be m= ore likely to eat cooked foods than wild animals.<div><br></div><div><br></= div></div><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Fri,= Sep 25, 2015 at 10:33 AM, GayleMacLean <span dir=3D"ltr"><<a href=3D"ma= ilto:duartess@eastlink.ca" target=3D"_blank">duartess@eastlink.ca</a>></= span> wrote:<br><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8e= x;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>Certainly not intending= to fire up any debate on diets for domestic pets, but I have been feeding = raw; including whole=C2=A0chicken, bones and all,=C2=A0lamb 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>= =C2=A0</div><div>My experience, anyway.</div><div>=C2=A0</div><div>Cheers!<= /div><div>=C2=A0</div><div>Gayle MacLean</div><div>Dartmouth</div><div clas= s=3D"HOEnZb"><div class=3D"h5"><div>=C2=A0</div><span>On 09/25/15 09:55 AM,= <b>Randy Lauff </b><<a href=3D"mailto:randy.lauff@gmail.com" target=3D"= _blank">randy.lauff@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span> <blockquote style=3D"PADDING-LEFT:13px;MARGIN-LEFT:0px;BORDER-LEFT:#00f 1px= solid" type=3D"cite"> <div> <div dir=3D"ltr">Well, there's a subject line you don't see every d= ay. <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 sha= red it with was aghast that I would do this..."chicken bones will spli= nter in their intestines".</div><div><br></div><div>I can't see th= is happening...they'll splinter when they're chewed, <i>maybe (?)= =C2=A0</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 animal= s eat birds all the time, and I have come across scads of scats in my decad= es in the woods with splintered bone.</div><div><br></div><div>Can anyone r= esolve this conundrum? Why can wild mammals tolerate the bones while domest= ics (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></div></blockquote> <div>=C2=A0</div> </div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear=3D"all"><div><br></div>-- <br>= <div class=3D"gmail_signature"><div dir=3D"ltr"><div><div dir=3D"ltr">Ronal= d G. Arsenault<br>Halifax, Nova Scotia</div></div></div></div> </div> --047d7bacbcf28a744205209297b6--
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