Are rawhide dog bones really safe for dogs?
I found this article and I took the excerpt out so you could read, I highly recommend this site for pet education But I do not agree with the article at all as I have heard many horror story about raw hide and chewies like greenie tooth brushes and so on. If you would like to read the article in it entirety please follow this http://www.peteducation.com/article.cfm Is rawhide safe? After quality, the second most-asked question about rawhide is whether or not chewing rawhide is healthy for puppies. A few years ago, one of the major medical schools in this country conducted a laboratory test to answer this question. The results showed that in groups of test dogs, even in those fed rawhide three times a day, there were no ill effects. Dogs will swallow pieces of rawhide and these will pass easily through the digestive tract. Although choking or intestinal obstruction with rawhide is ve
