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Thursday 22 November 2007

Hi Pals! Can anyone give mommy good suggestions what to give Jessie & I to chew and bite during our free-time? Mommy commented that I had really bad breath these days and since our chewing urge are sooo strong still, she would like to buy something durable and safe for us to chew when Mommy and Daddy are away during the day. Mom bought lotsa rawhide bones for us but we can easily finish one in about an hour! And also, sometimes, we ended up throwing up everything we chewed. Hmmm...
Dr. Vet recommended Mommy to give us Greenies but Mommy read some really bad stuff about furryfriends being choked to death or having found undigestible substance in the intestines in the internet. Since then, she has been quite suspicious of Greenies. I wonder any furryfriends have comment on this?

5 comments:

Goofy said...

greenies.. yummy yummy... i love this and i have this once every 2 days!!! hehehe

Amber-Mae said...

Greenies are not that dangerous actually, the dog who dies few years ago from eating Greenies over ate & that's why his stomach was full of like green foam. I eat Greenies once in a while & nothing has happened to me but my mommy don't really like these starch types of treats coz it in indigestible & it's not that healthy just like any other rawhide bones too coz they are processed. Infact, ALL processed food or treats are not good for us doggies coz there are chemicals in them. Anyway, since you two like to chew a lot, buy the plastic bone which they sell in pet shops. It's durable & can last very long! It's safe & it's good to clean your teefies. It's called nylon bones. They have all types of sizes & they are usually beef flavored. Also ask your hoomans to buy you Kongs which you can fill the inside of it with peanut butter or cheese & you will be addicted to it for hours.

Love licks,
Solid Gold Dancer

benjiboy said...

Hey Goofy and AmberMae,

Thanks for your reply. Mommy bought me Nylon bone before but it's too hard for me. I don't really like it much. Jessie doesn't really like it as well and would rather sleep than to chew on it! We had a Kong before which I had no patience playing with it (with peanut butter and all) and Jessie chewed on it as if it's really a bone or something. So much so that Jessie managed to bite a chunk out of the toy! Now, it's being confisticated by mommy. :p What about real bones? Are they threat/harm? And how do Mommy prepare the boneys for us?
Mom also felt that giving too much of a rawhide isn't good coz it's too starchy!

Getting fattier each day,
Benji

Amber-Mae said...

Raw bones will be good. Ask your mommy to buy you big pork bone not chicken bone. The bigger it is, the safer it is for you to chew so that you both will have difficulty biting & chipping off the bone. Chicken bones will splinter & if swallowed, it can damage your organs. If your mo9m is scared to give you raw bloody bones, then ask her to boil it for 3-5min only so that the bone will stay solid hard but the meat is slightly cooked. If boiled to long, it will splinter also.

Love licks,
Solid Gold Dancer

benjiboy said...

Ooh..Amber-Mae, you are really clever!!! Yeah, I shall tell mommy to prepare raw bones for me! Wow, big ones? I love to have a big boney! Woohoo!!!