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Beef or Chicken Bones? Raw chicken, on the bone is without a doubt the very best form in which to feed your dog most of its requirements of raw meaty bones. I often recommend chicken wings. DON'T FEED COOKED CHICKEN BONES TO YOUR DOG. There is an incredible difference between cooked and raw chicken! Beef bones may be older and will probably be harder. Most butchers and supermarkets will supply bags full of bony off-cuts. We think of these off-cuts, as good general bones.
Buried Bones. We all know that dogs bury bones, saving them for later on. In the case of raw bones, they slowly decompose under the action of their own enzymes. It is quite healthy for your dog to eat these buried bones, as long as it was a buried RAW BONE. It is nutritious for your dog. It just has different qualities to fresh bone, similar to aged meat. With cooked bones in which all the enzymes have been destroyed, the resulting rotten bone could possibly make your dog sick. Buried cooked bones cannot decompose under the action of their own enzymes because they have been destroyed by the cooking process. Instead, they are attacked by bacteria, which can produce dangerous toxins such as Botulism, a deadly paralysis.
Meaty Bones Provide Incredible Exercise For Your Dog. Meat left on the bone means your dog will have to rip, tear, and chew at it. This is the way nature intended your dog to eat. It is part of keeping your dog healthy. It is vitally important for your dog’s health that it eats its food in as natural a form as possible. All that exercise of chewing, ripping, and tearing at large clomps of bones and meat is a benefit to dogs of all ages.