bear bones for dogs

I give my fog raw bones all the time with no issues. Once he ate a whole 4 pound roast that was frozen solid in about an hour, while I ran out. I was amazed and spent 20 minutes looking for it as I couldnt believe he could eat it that quick since it was frozen. Never found it and he was never sick. Since then I am not too concerned with raw meat and the dog.
 
Raw commercial meat maybe but I wonder what if any parasites might be in wild bear meat. I'm not saying its dangerous as I have no particular experience with bear meat but lots of wild animals will have worms or single cell parasites that might screw up your dog. Probably safer to boil or smoke the bones...

Jeff
 
thanks

ill boil them
rhshooter said:
Raw commercial meat maybe but I wonder what if any parasites might be in wild bear meat. I'm not saying its dangerous as I have no particular experience with bear meat but lots of wild animals will have worms or single cell parasites that might screw up your dog. Probably safer to boil or smoke the bones...

Jeff
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Freeze them for thirty days first (to kill possible trichonosis) and then you are fine to give them to the dogs, or make soup out of them:D!

Edit June 24, 2012 - Apparently not all big agencies agree that freezing in a deep freeze will kill trochonosis, so better safe than sorry - maybe give your dogs milk-bone!
 
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Boiled or smoked bones are not splintery. When boiled they never get above 100C or so... Stay away from really small ones and poultry bones though.

Jeff
 
mlehtovaara said:
I give my fog raw bones all the time with no issues. Once he ate a whole 4 pound roast that was frozen solid in about an hour, while I ran out. I was amazed and spent 20 minutes looking for it as I couldnt believe he could eat it that quick since it was frozen. Never found it and he was never sick. Since then I am not too concerned with raw meat and the dog.
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One time an old Bluetick hound of mine ate a completely frozen rabbit, unskinned, guts in, it was snared, feet everything, just swallowed it. His stomach would have been the shape of the rabbit!

He also ate a big bunch of turkey legs that were over cooked. My dad worked at the hospital and for the christmas dinner they cooked turkeys for the whole hospital and one batch was over cooked and they could only salvage the breasts. as the the legs were cooked too much. The dog ate the whole bunch of them, probably about 20 legs I would say. It took him about 15 seconds to eat them. no problem.
 
I give my beagles raw moose bones but do boil bear bones because of trich. My sisters boxer ate a 13 lb frozen turkey one night that she had thawing in the sink. he suffered no ill effects other than he didn't move for 3 days!
 
Trichinosis is very serious. There was an incident north of here several years ago where several dogs were killed after eating a heavily infected polar bear that was shot in the community. I seem to recall that the people knew better than to eat the meat from an obviously sick bear, but figured the dogs would be fine. They were not.

I spent a little time on google trying to find an article or something about this incident, I didn't find anything though.

I did find some disturbing articles. This is not a worm to be trifled with.
 
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