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49 minutes ago, peds said:

My brown hound has learned how to crunch them down just fine, as have generations of my folks' border collies. On the other hand, my wife's girlhood springer had surgery to remove a cooked chicken bone. So it's a tricky one, really. I appreciate that it's a potential risk, but I also refuse to waste such a valuable quantity of protein. 

 

In the decade after the war many locals still kept a few layers, chicken meat was still expensive compared with pork  but occasionally one of the old hens would be eaten. The bones were much tougher than from modern shop bought chicken.

 

My nan would not allow the bones to be fed to the dog, an ancient mongrel called Dumbo, because she said they would splinter and stick in his gut. We have continued to refrain from letting the dogs have the chicken carcass but I do strip it thoroughly for them.

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7 hours ago, openspaceman said:

 

In the decade after the war many locals still kept a few layers, chicken meat was still expensive compared with pork  but occasionally one of the old hens would be eaten. The bones were much tougher than from modern shop bought chicken.

 

My nan would not allow the bones to be fed to the dog, an ancient mongrel called Dumbo, because she said they would splinter and stick in his gut. We have continued to refrain from letting the dogs have the chicken carcass but I do strip it thoroughly for them.

When I was a nipper ( back in the 60s) it was quite common to see " white " dog shit . Never see it now a days . 

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38 minutes ago, Stubby said:

When I was a nipper ( back in the 60s) it was quite common to see " white " dog shit . Never see it now a days . 

There is a reason for that, something to do with an old dog food being rich in bonemeal and calcium, now discontinued.

 

Want to feel young again? get some dog shit (usually free) and paint it white, hey presto! You’re a ten year old boy again.

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2 hours ago, Stubby said:

When I was a nipper ( back in the 60s) it was quite common to see " white " dog shit . Never see it now a days . 

That was because they adulterated dog food with chalk to bulk it.

 

IIRC dalmations have a genetic trait to crap uric acid, same as birds, which gives white turds but over the years I think it has been bred out.

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3 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

There is a reason for that, something to do with an old dog food being rich in bonemeal and calcium, now discontinued.

 

Want to feel young again? get some dog shit (usually free) and paint it white, hey presto! You’re a ten year old boy again.

Yes Mick . I just thought it was because giving dogs bones had gone out of fashion . I knew it was bone that caused it . 

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On the evening walk up the hill. Always two dogs, usually one cat, sometimes two.

The cats are doing their best to tell Oscar that they are willing to play with him, but only on their terms, and that they have claws. He'll get the message soon enough.

 

 

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