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What about the bones you get at animal feed stores, the ones that are cow bones that still have a little bit of meat on them but they are dried. Not fresh?
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Will Falconer, DVM Moderator
Hey Melissa,
I think the bones can be bare, just not dried out and hard as concrete like you find in some pet stores. I'm talking about fresh, raw bones, and if they have meat on them, that's fine, they can take the place of some of normally offered food. The between meal, "recreational" bones can do all the good things for teeth, calcium, roughage, etc.
Dense bones are fine in the healthy animals. I talk about this on my Natural Dental page further. Detriment would only be to unhealthy animals, and I talk about transitioning from softer bones to these harder ones if in doubt as to tooth health.
I really like your "rack feeding" where they've got to pull things with the front teeth! Brilliant. Can you offer any pointers to Poppy (below) as to how you got the cats on board?
Melissa Miller
Oh yes, I forgot to mention I also feed bone parts from quail and game hen.
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