And what is a bone? Worthless piece of mineral with negligible nutritional value. While true that the stomach of a dog is adapted for their digestion. Gastric acidity dogs enough to a few hours from the bone fragments do something soft, resembling a piece of rubber. So,
what is the matter?
Among dog owners can often hear the opinion that dogs should be given a bone - to sharpen their teeth. Sharpen teeth only
rodents because they grow at them all life. Dogs aren't able to sharpen teeth - such they were created by the nature. But to grind off, break tooth, to scratch tooth enamel gnawing bones is will occur surely. The bone diet reduces the lifetime of dog teeth. Wild canids never live to the age of domestic dogs, including therefore.
Baby teeth of puppies changes on constants in age from 3.5 to 6.5 months. Permanent teeth remains on whole life and will never change. And how long they can serve as a dog, staying healthy, depending on heredity, as well as feeding. If the bones are in the diet, then aged 6 - 8 years instead of a dog's teeth will stay small remnants, and also premature abrasion of possible infringement of the pulp (the soft tissue), followed by pulpitis, and without treatment loss of tooth or several next is inevitable.More serious danger when eating bones - is injury of the stomach and intestines. Not always a dog's stomach acid is normal. Often a dog's stomach is full (and then acid is spent also for digestion of the entire volume of food), or works incorrectly. Therefore often bones aren't digested in intestines of a dog and, going as transit goods, injure a mucous membrane on the way. As a rule, dogs, after devouring a large number of bones observed diarrhea or constipation. Both that, and another - violation of work of intestines.
Often dogs swallow big sharp pieces of bones, and it can conduct to more serious complications:
1. Bones can get stuck in the throat. You can only get it under anesthesia, and sometimes have to resort to surgical methods. But it happens not often.
2. Bone can not escape from the stomach into the intestines, causing constant vomiting. Only operation can save a dog.
3. The bone stuck in the intestines, causing bowel obstruction and injuring up to its perforation. Perhaps this is the most dangerous, the consequences of feeding bones. Treatment with surgery alone. After determination by X-ray with contrast substance space constraints, rather difficult operation - intestines resection is carried out. After surgery, the dog for a long time to be on a strict diet, and not soon return to normal life.
4. Shards of bone reaches the large intestine, pressed, and the dog can not normally be emptied bowels. The animal receives proper posture, whines, there can be blood drops. The cleaning enema with oil helps in most cases, then, again, a strict diet for several days. This is the most frequent complication after feeding the dog bones.
Bird bones - a special subject. It is not necessary to give them at all. In nature, wolves do not hunt ducks. But life has shown that acute tubular fragments of chicken bones repeatedly pierced domestic dogs stomachs. The second danger is less obvious but no less harmful to the dog's health. The matter is that at a bird more high temperature of a body and many microbes dangerous to mammals don't cause harm to them. But it doesn't mean that the bird doesn't have them. In modern industrial poultry breeding factories diseases feet, including leg bones, are ubiquitous. Since virtually all turkeys at the time of slaughter diagnosed inflammation of bone tissue. Infection is inside the bone, in meat it isn't present, and these legs can be bought in every shop. For a man this concrete microbe from turkey is not dangerous, especially inside the bone. A dog could develop poisoning with toxins. Healthy adult dog will be ill about 4 hours and will recover. But with a puppy or a pregnant dog is not so easy. In any case, before calling the veterinarian it is necessary to give Bactisubtil and Biseptol.
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Mar 06, 2015 at 02:57 AM
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