Vegan dogs. It's official.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/17/give-the-dog-a-bone-vets-warn-pet-owners-not-to-do-it/

No bones for dogs, it seems. Wave bye-bye to white dog poo, and all that digging up stuff. I don't think that our late Bertie would like that as he gazes down from the cat chasing theme park up above.

He liked tennis balls too.

 

[coffeejo]

My dog can't have bones as they make her sick, but her poo goes white as she's feed on raw meat and ground up bones.

 

[PeteXXX]

The danger, according to the article, is bone splinters causing damage to the digestive tract.
I did know someone who fed their dog a vegan diet. The stench of its flatulence was appalling!!

 

[Yellow Saddle]

I'm training my dog to become gluten intolerant. That seems to be the thing to be. I've put her on a diet of gluten-free tennis balls.

 

[Hill Wimp]

Didn't the 80's pop star Howard Jones have a vegan dog?

 

[Markymark]

How do you know if someone is vegan? Wait 3 minutes after meeting them and they'll tell you.

 

[Drago]

What is the world coming to? They'll be telling us that doughnuts are bad for us soon.

Drops monocle into morning Martini in shock!

 

[shouldbeinbed]

Good it specifies cooked bones as more of a threat, that's been well known for a long time.

 

[steve50]

That article is only telling half the story, any dog owner with an ounce of common sense will know not to feed cooked bones to their pet especially NOT cooked poultry bones.
Large marrow bones are also not good for your dogs teeth as they can chip their teeth due to the bone being too hard.
I have two german shepherds that are raw fed, they also get raw chicken thighs and legs, turkey neck and lamb bones are also fed to them, my two dogs are very healthy nd thrive on their diet.
I think when feeding bones the dog owner should take the dogs size and the size of the bones into consideration, big dog big bones etc, also for smaller lap dogs maybe fed softer smaller bones like lamb, a dogs digestive tract is very short but very acidic, it is designed to eat raw food including bones.
My two.

A better pic of the big fella

 

[slowmotion]

The danger, according to the article, is bone splinters causing damage to the digestive tract.
I did know someone who fed their dog a vegan diet. The stench of its flatulence was appalling!!

What, worse than a meat eater?????????????

 

[steve50]

What, worse than a meat eater?????????????

It depends, dogs that eat meat out of a tin can have shocking flatulence whereas dogs fed a raw meat diet tend not to suffer the same fate, other benefits of feeding a raw diet include lovely white teeth, no smelly dog breath and the dog poo is smaller and solid so very easy to clean up and dispose of. Also raw fed dogs coats tend not to smell, I have two large breed dogs and we never get that " dog smell" even after the dogs have been in the house all night.
As for rawhide chews, anyone that feeds their dog that stuff is poisoning their dog, look into how rawhide chews are made, they are full of chemicals.
http://pets.webmd.com/dogs/rawhide-good-or-bad-for-your-dog
http://thebark.com/content/dangers-rawhide-dog-chew-toys

 

[steve50]

How rawhide chews are made,
Producing rawhide begins with the splitting of an animal hide, usually from cattle. The top grain is generally tanned and made into leather products, while the inner portion, in its “raw” state, goes to the dogs. Removing the hair from hides often involves a highly toxic recipe: sodium sulphide liming. A standard practice is to procure rawhide in the “split lime state” as by-products from tanneries, facilities that top the list of U.S. Superfund sites. In the post-tannery stage, hides are washed and whitened using a solution of hydrogen peroxide. And that’s just one step.
Other poisonous residues that may show up in rawhide include arsenic and formaldehyde. Even dog skin is a possibility. An ongoing investigation of the fur trade by Humane Society International, an arm of the HSUS, resulted in this information, as listed on their website: “In a particularly grisly twist, the skins of brutally slaughtered dogs in Thailand are mixed with other bits of skin to produce rawhide chew toys for pet dogs. Manufacturers told investigators that these chew toys are regularly exported to and sold in U.S. stores.”

 

[coffeejo]

I didn't realise how rawhide chews were made.

 

[steve50]

A big plus one to this.

As an aside, you can feed cooked bones (not poultry of course) - but they need to have been pressure cooked, which helps maintain their integrity.

But matching the bone to the dog size is important.

The only time I cook bones is to make bone broth for my dogs, several medium sized bones in a soup pan throw in vegetables of choice then cook / simmer for four to eight hours, all that is left after cooking is some small fragments of bone which are removed. The broth cools and sets like a jelly it can be frozen for future use and is extremely healthy for the dogs, makes a great winter health booster.

 

[steve50]

I didn't realise how rawhide chews were made.

I did a lot of research before putting my dogs on a raw diet as I needed to make sure I was doing my best for my dogs, the rawhide making process cropped up whilst I was researching, kind of scary when I think I let previously owned dogs have them. I lost one of my dogs a few years ago to leukemia, the vet did say it is unusual for a dog to get this form of cancer and the dog was less than ten years old, it does make me wonder.