Dog Treats: Are They Healthy?

It is a fact that dogs love bones; they always have and always will. They obviously appreciate munching on a marrow bone if you give him and it really is a prize seeing them enjoy. We usually relate a dog’s happiness with a piece of bone, but it may also be their danger zone. It may turn out that as you consider your best friend’s happiness, his safety may fall behind.

Dog experts have diverted opinions on whether bones should be given to dogs or not and if so, how should it be prepared for them: raw or cooked, hard or soft? They only agree that it is safe to give them bones that are mostly cartilage which are entirely consumable. It would give them pleasure, too. In this way, the risk of splinters can be avoided.

Veterinarians advise that dogs should never be given bones that may yield the hazard of internal injury in dogs from jagged bone splinters. Bone splinters can wound the stomach and intestines of a dog. Never give your dog bones from chicken, pork, fowl, rabbit, and a leg of a lamb even when you prepared it very well and you think that it is safe for your dog. Chop and steak are also dangerous.

Dogs, especially the small ones, may acquire injury during intestinal compaction if the masticated bone has not been mixed with other stomach residue from an earlier meal. So it is important that before you give your dog a treat, be sure to give him a good meal first. Good thing is that you can give your dog an artificial treat – a nylon bone. It offers same advantages as a true one but eliminates the risk.