I generally don’t give my dog human food at all, though she ate a good bit of my Jarlsberg the other night because I forgot that I left it in a grocery bag on the floor. Wasn’t too happy about that! Because it was a lot of cheese for a dog and Jarslberg is kind of expense and I was really kind of looking forward to eating it myself.
I just had all these bones left over. But @Adirondackwannabe‘s explanation, about bird’s having to have lighter bones for flight, so they tend to shatter… well duh! One of those things that never occurred to me, but now, of course, seems obvious.
The only bones she gets are ones I buy at the pet store that are specifically for dogs. Aren’t they O.K.? And she only gets them when she’s inside so I can generally keep an eye on her. And usually she just eats everything off the bone and then she’s done. I did get one recently though, like a cow’s ankle or knee bone or something, I’m not sure, that she’s been chewing on even after she’s eaten “the good stuff” off of it.
The problem is that she’s a puppy, a little over 8 months and she’s a real chewer and I’m always trying to find alternatives for her to chew on besides my shoes, reading glasses, plastic hair bands and wireless mouse. :-) And she’s very picky, and also kind of moody and capricious when it comes to chewing and chews. Even when I find a rubber, or rope or some kind of chew for her, like deer feet, or even the shoes I have simply surrendered to her, she likes them for a while, then won’t chew on them any more, then decides she likes them again. It’s very frustrating.