Parson's noses and dogs

Bromley86

I know the general rule about no chicken bones, but is it alright to give dogs the (cooked) parson's nose?

How about a duck's parson's nose?

Quick answers much appreciated by a hungry lab .

foreign_correspondent

has it got a bone in it? I thought it was just cartlidge - I have to say I always chuck it to my dog!

ETA - if unsure, cut it in half and see if there is a bone in it! If so remove bone and feed remainder to doggo!

Bromley86

Yep, as well as cartlidge the duck's PN has something that looks like a mini spine. IIRC a chicken is the same.

I cut it out this time just to be sure, but I really can't see how it'd be a problem.

Raksha

My dogs get them, and cooked wing tips as well.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Out of interest - because I do not know the answer - can a reputable animal organisation prove exactly how many dogs die in the UK as a result of eating bones each year? It's just that I don't understand how dogs existed without tins and kibble for so many thousands of years, if bones are such a deadly danger? I also wonder how urban foxes thrive when most of their diet consists of cooked poultry carcasses on a Sunday evening.

I am sure someone will enlighten me.

MissMoneypenny

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

Out of interest - because I do not know the answer - can a reputable animal organisation prove exactly how many dogs die in the UK as a result of eating bones each year? It's just that I don't understand how dogs existed without tins and kibble for so many thousands of years, if bones are such a deadly danger? I also wonder how urban foxes thrive when most of their diet consists of cooked poultry carcasses on a Sunday evening.

I am sure someone will enlighten me.

When I was a child, my mother fed our dogs whale meat or horse meat. The smell while it was cooked, was disgusting.

Sadly, the last of my dogs died this year, but I would never have given them chicken bones or any other type of bone, except beef knuckles. I know of too many dogs who have ended up as an emergency at the vets, from eating raw bones (especially raw chicken bones). I also know of one GSD who died from being compacted with bones:-( I stopped the raw beef knuckle bones when BSE came in on the advice of my vet - who was a dog person herself and who use to attend the slaughter house in her capacity as a vet, as well as dealing with cows on the farms.

I use to feed my dogs cooked chicken with lightly steamed, blended veg and some fruit. I kept James Wellbeloved as a standby. They use to love to chew a whole carrot. Most of it came out as carrot the other end, but they enjoyed the chew.

I never fed them raw meat either. That poor boxer dog that died, was enough to put me off taking the risk with my dogs:-

"Neospora is a parasite that is ingested from contaminted meat, that is fresh, and from the consumption it only takes 1-3 days for the parasite to attack the brain, then work its way down the spinal cord, and infect all the major organs and mussles.......leaving the dog paralised and blind..... At 9.30 yesterday morning I had to have my beautifull Cilla eathanaised, to save further suffering.

On reserching this, on the internet, it mostly appears in cattle heards and clinicle tests have been carried out at liverpool university, and sweden, and the USA. It is usually more common in costa rica, south america, but is gradually showing up everywhere. Very few cases were reported last yr. the syptoms rang from a weekeness and paralysis of the forlimbs, drunken type behaviour, altered behavier, blindness, head tilt, head nodding, tremors, seizures,sudden death due to heart inflamation, pheumonia, skin abnormalities. Frightening isnt it?"
http://www.boxerdogplanet.com/showthread.php?p=52755

ali-t

MissMoneypenny wrote: »

I never fed them raw meat either. That poor boxer dog that died, was enough to put me off taking the risk with my dogs:-

"Neospora is a parasite that is ingested from contaminted meat, that is fresh, and from the consumption it only takes 1-3 days for the parasite to attack the brain, then work its way down the spinal cord, and infect all the major organs and mussles.......leaving the dog paralised and blind..

I am sure that neospora can be killed by freezing the meat and then defrosting it before feeding it to your dogs so it isn't a particularly big reason not to feed raw. the risk of a dog catching this is fairly minimal.