[Leica] Re: dogs

[rangefinder at screengang.com (Didier Ludwig)]

It's more the degenareted, apartment-breeded kind of dogs, who are used to 
eat canned wet food only, that can suffocate of chicken bones. Wild dogs or 
natural breeds, like working sheepdogs, can just bite anything without 
choking on it. I had a Sarplaninac dog, http://tinyurl.com/6bvp5, grown up 
in flock of sheep in southern Yugoslavia, who had the nasty habit to steal 
chickens from a farmer in my neighbourhood. It costed me 10.- SFR every 
time. The farmer was always astonished how fast the dog could gorge it and 
just leave the feathers out. The dog died in the high age of 14 years 
because of senile decay.
Didier


>A friend in Finland (Kuhmo) fed his dogs always chicken bones and never had
>a problem.  His felt that God would have taught dogs not to eat that if it
>were bad for them. Like moose and rendeers don't eat poisenous mushrooms.
>J?rg
>
>>Karen,
>>I doubt that dogs in the wild (or wolves, more appropriately) manage to
>>catch a lot of birds. Furthermore, we are talking about a risk, not a
>>certainty. I suspect that wild dogs have much shorter lifespans than
>>domestic ones, for many reasons, this being one of them.
>>Nathan
>>
>>>Karen Nakamura wrote:
>>>Be careful giving poultry bones to the dog.  If the dog crushes the bone
>>>and swallows a part of it, the splintered bone can get lodged in the
>>>throat or intestines and require surgery.