are dog treats made of rawhide bad
What are the risks of rawhide chews…. There is a real risk of blockage. Our dogs sometimes swallow entire chunks at a time and since they’re largely indigestible, these can get stuck in their intestinal track. It is important to note that rawhide bones and chews made in USA are the absolute best for your dog. Choosing American Rawhide, Merrick, Dingo, Bone Buddies or Beafeaters brands you give your pet a rawhide chew of premium beefhide from corn-fed American cattle produced under the strictest quality standards. American production processes and sanitation practices are much better and more highly regulated than most other countries producing rawhide bones. There are cooked bones at the pet store – avoid these – cooked bones can splinter and wreck havoc on your dog’s intestinal track. They can also break your dog’s teeth (just learned this one recently from an unhappy dog owner). But they sell rawhide too. I buy raw bones from a local pet store with a freezer section. The Petcos and Petsmarts in our area don’t have raw food/raw bones; but the neighborhood pet stores do. The raw bones are really inexpensive and they give our dogs hours of enjoyment. Our dogs love to chew and rawhide chews have been great for their teeth, for boredom, and to alleviate anxiety. Rawhide chews keep our dogs’ jaws strong, their teeth clean, and their breath fresh. “I never buy at Wal-Mart, I only buy organic and nothing from China, ever !”. This is how Danielle Devereux, whose German Shepherd Sammy is a ravenous consumer of snacks, describes her treat-buying strategy. Sammy prefers his rawhide toys soaked in warm chicken broth first. And they can cause an upset tummy. Like I shared, Rodrigo can’t handle the flavored ones; there are other dogs that have shown that they’re allergic to the ingredients used to create the rawhide chews. Promoted as an “all natural” treat, rawhide does keep dogs entertained, perhaps even more so in its many basted, twisted, even brightly colored mutations. It’s the equivalent of that gummy-worm-fortified cereal made with real oats that children howl for all the way down the breakfast aisle. The first step in making rawhide chews is transportation of animal's hide to processing plants where it is split, washed with degreasers and detergents, and cleaned. The completely clean rawhide is then sterilized in hydrogen peroxide at the required temperature for the required amount of time. Rawhide dog chews are dried hypodermic interstitial tissue (second layer of the skin) from cattle raised for meat production. This hypodermic interstitial tissue is quite tough yet flexible, due to collagen fibers that link. During processing the animal's skin is split into inner and outer layers.
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