The border collie stole a chicken carcass out of the trash...

[grasswire]

...while we were out today (forgot to take out the trash bag) and greeted us with it at the door on our return. He was so proud of it, holding it in his mouth and shaking it like he does his stuffed cow toy! When we screamed at him, he ran for the back door, raced outside and buried it in the yard.

Gah!

Hours later, when he was let out to pee, he came back in with that grisly thing in his mouth -- but now it was covered with dirt, too!

What a mess. He misses it. At least he didn't bury it in the couch cushions.

[struggle4progress]

1. Aren't you supposed to worry about dogs and chicken bones?

[grasswire]

2. yes, of course

Nobody gave it to him. He stole it.

[Shell Beau]

5. I think the "raw" bones may be ok.

[LostinVA]

11. Raw chicken bones are fine

Lots of people feed them as part of the raw food diet.

On edit: This is Haruka. I didn't realize somebody logged me out of my computer.

[LostinVA]

9. Yes, except border collies oddly often seem to have different rules about these things

[struggle4progress]

15. Well, I have a certain fondness for them what won't follow the stablished rules

[trof]

3. Daughter's mastiff ate half a roasted chicken.

She thought her husband had put it away after supper.
He thought she had.
Boo, the mastiff was the one who 'put it away'.
He can stand flatfooted and reach the kitchen counter with his jaws.
He had the runs the next day but aside from that was non the worse for the 'feast'.
BAD DOG!
:rofl:

[Midlodemocrat]

4. I don't want to worry you, but I think you should give the vet a call.

Dogs and chicken bones don't mix. The bones are too brittle, it could hurt the dog. The vet could let you know what symptoms to look for in case something isn't right.

[Shell Beau]

6. I agree. A bone could splinter and pierce his intestines, etc.

:shrug:

[Midlodemocrat]

7. I'm not an expert on canine physiology by any means, but

I remember the vet cautioning me about chicken bones when we got our first dog. He asked how we 'disposed of items like that'.

Looking back? I'm glad he mentioned it. It's made me very vigilant about the way I dispose of bones. I let them have beef bones, but nothing else.

[DeepBlueC]

13. that's cooked bones

they are the ones that splinter; raw bones are okay (except for the possibility of salmonella of course). My neighbor's dog popped in one day and stole several sticks of satay from my table which he consumed in their entirety, bamboo skewers and all. I was totally panicked about this and warned them, begged them, to get him to the vet, but they said "eh, he'll be okay" which I very much doubted, but he was. Thank God.

[LostinVA]

8. We have the same BC -- except we have two of them

Mick, the older one, just pooed a banana peel.

:wtf:

I haven't even eaten any bananas since Saturday, because I ran out.

They are evil mad genius dogs. I love them.

[bluedigger]

10. I worry about shit like that all the time.

I try my best to keep chicken bones out of wolf dog's mouth, but here in the city, people throw them everywhere, and she can smell them in a pile of gravel. She's been pretty indestructible so far, knock on wood!

[mzteris]

12. how about a FROZEN chicken?

I had a German Shepard about 8 mos old. I took a chicken out of the freezer to thaw and went next door. I was only gone about an hour - definitely not long enough for the chicken to thaw.

I came back - no chicken on the counter. I searched the ENTIRE house - the third time on my hands and knees with a flashlight - the only things I found was a medium-sized piece of plastic wrap (from the chicken) and a palm-sized piece of styrofoam. I worried that she'd "buried" it in the house somewhere and that it would start to smell, but I never found another bit of anything.

She was absolutely the dumbest dog I've ever had.

[DeepBlueC]

14. she got the chicken...who's the dumb one?

Dog's probably thinking she outwitted her dumb hooman. And got the delicious chicken popsicle.