• Dog has eaten a chicken bone he found on the floor.
    Should I be worried?

    MrsDeth is on the phone to the vets and a cursory Google says it'll be fine, he needs to go to hospital and/or he will be shitting blood by the morning.

    Reckon it was KFC, so he clearly has no class.
    He isn't bothered at the moment and reckon he ate it whole as I tried to wrestle it from his mouth (I didn't feel it or see it)

  • How big is he?

    Ours used to do it occasionally when we used to live near a fried chicken place, the vets recommendation was to make them a load of overcooked white rice, as it helps pad it out when it makes its way through their gut...

  • Crumpet are all sorts of shit off the pavement when she was little, chicken bone (and a screw one time) included and she was absolutely fine. We were also told to feed her bread to try and stop the sharp ends getting stuck anywhere. I'm very glad she's grown out of her old street dog ways! From the sounds of it it's a bit of a roll of the dice as to whether or not a chicken bone does any harm.

  • My understanding from previous similar anxiety is the issue would be crunching then eating a cooked chicken bone because the hardened shards that creates can be problematic. Eating whole (as most seem to do) is almost always fine

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