Rec bones for a smallish puppy

Beanie

Clicker Cult Coordinator
Joined
May 17, 2006
Messages
14,012
Likes
0
Points
36
Age
39
Location
Illinois
#1
Auggie was three when he got his first raw, and I let him chomp meat off a knuckle bone. Since then I've switched to mostly pork hocks and sometimes letting him chew meat off and lick the marrow out of thin sliced soup bones.
What would you give to a smallish puppy? Say... sheltie puppy sized? Would a pork hock be okay?

I'm still not 100% comfortable with feeding edible bones - Auggie hasn't had any chicken necks or anything like that yet. He has been chomping on a lamb shank and broken off small pieces of the bone on that to eat, but I think that might be too hard for puppy teeth to break. Also the lamb shank would be approximately the size of a sheltie puppy. =P

Any ideas?
 

Grab

Active Member
Joined
Jan 13, 2005
Messages
3,374
Likes
2
Points
36
#2
Well Grimmy (who is around 15 lbsish at a year old) started getting ribs (lamb, beef and pork) when he was a small fry. Marrow bones were too big at the time for him to get his mouth around, but he does fine with them now. We did let him have his way with a lamb shank as well, but the dogs kind of share those.

Ginger, who is 10 lbs, has the best luck with lamb ribs (though she'll eat the meat off the others) as well as thin sliced soup bones.
 

Bailey08

New Member
Joined
Aug 28, 2008
Messages
2,467
Likes
0
Points
0
#3
Bailey isn't as small as the dog you're talking about, but I really liked duck necks for the transition to RMBs. Pork necks and ribs scared me a bit. (He can't have chicken.)

ETA: I just reread and realized that you were looking specifically for recreational bones. I was actually more comfortable with bones he can safely chew than those that may be too hard.
 

Maxy24

Active Member
Joined
Nov 29, 2006
Messages
8,070
Likes
2
Points
38
Age
32
Location
Massachusetts
#4
I am not personally comfortable with recreational bones. I would suggest edible bones, they are not likely to break teeth like rec bones sometimes will. I don't know how big a sheltie puppy is but phoebe is about 18 pounds and she did well with a turkey neck.
 

Members online

No members online now.
Top