Note on Bones

I have read that cats and dogs can in fact eat chicken bones. HOWEVER, they should not be given chicken bones which have been cooked. Why? Because they become brittle, like glass, and break into very sharp shards which can lodge in their intestines, cause bleeding, infection, possibly death. Raw bones quickly rinsed in boiling water are okay.

Here is a photo of a cooked chicken bone, which Fig should not have been given. It clearly illustrates the brittle, shardy nature, and danger of cooked bones as explained above.

Now cooked neck bones on the other hand are okay for Crows, I think, (not sure about Cats and Dogs) because they become very soft on the outside, and Fig enjoys eating the softened brown bone. Later she coughs up pellets of bone meal. But cooked long, calcified bones are a health risk for animals and birds.

 

Note the very sharp edges a cooked bone produces due to the fact that cooking it has made it brittle and glass like.  

I missed a great photo op the other day. Fig was eating a chicken neck, and she had two vertebrae like pirate rings on two separate toes, with her toes through the spinal cord hole. I gotta try and get her to do that pose again.