[Leica] Residual Dinosaurs and Canine Fodder

[douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas M. Sharp)]

Marc James Small wrote:

> 
> The problem is with COOKED poultry bones, which are brittle and can cause
> substantial damage to a dog. 
And cats too!!
  Raw bones are not a problem.
> 
> I have three dogs.  Two of them, an Ecru Lab and a Border Collie, chase
> birds all the time and manage to catch a pigeon or dove ever three or four
> days.  They seem to ignore the grackels -- I guess that these must have a
> poor taste to the canine tastebud.  (There is a rich tradition of Europeans
> and Americans hunting pigeon for the table, but I suspect that crows and
> grackels would only appeal to those in the situation of the Donner Party.)
> 
> Marc
> 
Marc,
what on earth is a grackel? I've heard of "eating Crow" but never a grackel.
Douglas
BTW
We have plenty of recipes here, from both Germany and the North of England,
for Rook Pie, Baked Rook, Blackbirds (Krammetsv?gel) and the amazing 
Yorkshire 
Pie - this one has in the middle a partridge which is put into a boned grouse
inside a boned pheasant,inside a boned duck, inside a boned goose. There are 
rumours that a swan was used as well but I never found it in a recipe.
I well remember having regularly eaten Rook and Pigeons in the 60's just 
before 
sowing season (and Rooks again before their mating season). A very tasty 
roast
if you wrap it in smoked fat bacon before roasting to stop it drying out.