Why can't you feed chicken bones to dogs?

When a dog eats a wild bird, the bones are raw and don't splinter like cooked ones do. We cook our chicken for ourselves and that's when the dogs shouldn't have it. Many people who feed their dogs the raw food program use chicken backs and bones as part of the feeding.

Depends on who you listen to; some people swear dogs should never have any bones. I don't buy that. Chewing on bones helps their teeth stay cleaner, is good exercise for their jaws and it's something they just plain enjoy. Also helps puppies get their teeth through the gums a bit faster.

Bird bones are much less dense than the other bones, otherwise, they wouldn't be able to fly. Their bones also support must less weight. It's like the difference between a car frame and an airplane frame. The airplane frame needs to be much lighter and less dense for the plane to be able to fly. When something flies, the less weight, the better.

We laughed so hard at our Papillion when she got her first bone. Her former owners never gave her one before. She wasn't sure what to do with it. But she watched the other dogs and got the idea real quick. She has to work pretty hard at even a small bone but she gets the job done now!

I have heard that it happens and I think it has more to do with dogs that haven't experienced eating them but i think it depends on if the dog has become use to eating them and has accustomed themselves to eating them there less likely to run the risk as I have grew up with feeding dogs all bones cooked and raw ( including chicken bones the only one I take out is the splinter bone in the leg) as all my family ( dad feed them that way, his dad feed them that way) have done it. All my dogs have been fine and healthy and none of them required any vet care because they have had cooked bones. And in away (may differ from ours) dogs do kind off cook bones as well when they burry them in the yard and than pull them out all rotten, stinky and partially cooked because of the heat in the ground. And dogs are scavengers and it is believed that that's how dogs where domesticated they relied on or scraps and garbage for food because it was easy.

Cooked chicken bones become very brittle. They will splinter easily and can break in to very sharp shards. If your Dogs ate cooked chicken bones there is risk of it getting a splinter of bone stuck in its mouth, its throat or in its intestine. The bones can pierce intestines or form a hard blockage that can be life threatening.

Raw chicken bones are fine to give dogs, but never give dogs any type of cooked bones!

My vet told me most of the emergency cases she gets in her surgery involved cooked bone splinters getting lodged in the bowel & intestines & is often fatal!

I'm not sure why people say cooked chicken bone are bad for dogs. my dogs have been eating them since they were puppies, and they are healthy and alive. in fact one is 13 , and the other is 5

sigh....millions of dogs eat raw chicken...including the bones.

Millions do fine.

COOKED bird bones....all species....can "splinter" when CHEWED-because they're they're thin & hollow.

NONE will can during digestion.

Bones aren't feed.

Think before swallowing granny-tales,dear.