I gave the beasties their first ever real bones today! Chelsy is 13 and has somehow never had a bone in her life. She has horrible jaw problems and I didn't think she could handle one.
Rocky has only had bully sticks. So today they got their first beef ribs. They both looked at me like I was nuts! Chelsy stared at hers for ten straight minutes occassionally poking it with her nose, before she finally went to town on it and chewed at it for about 15 minutes. That wore her out so I put it away for awhile.
Rocky licked his for ten minutes like he was worried he would hurt it. Then he gently nibbled all the meat off it. He finally got brave enough to gnaw the meat off but after twenty minutes of loving the thing and polishing the whole bone, he quit on it and looked all pleased with himself, He never actually bit down hard enough to crack the bone. I'll give it back to him later and see if he ever figures out that he can actually bite the bone. Here are pictures of them being 'dogs' for the first time. Maybe now when I give them some meat they will know what to do with it :smile:



Rocky has only had bully sticks. So today they got their first beef ribs. They both looked at me like I was nuts! Chelsy stared at hers for ten straight minutes occassionally poking it with her nose, before she finally went to town on it and chewed at it for about 15 minutes. That wore her out so I put it away for awhile.
Rocky licked his for ten minutes like he was worried he would hurt it. Then he gently nibbled all the meat off it. He finally got brave enough to gnaw the meat off but after twenty minutes of loving the thing and polishing the whole bone, he quit on it and looked all pleased with himself, He never actually bit down hard enough to crack the bone. I'll give it back to him later and see if he ever figures out that he can actually bite the bone. Here are pictures of them being 'dogs' for the first time. Maybe now when I give them some meat they will know what to do with it :smile:


