Have fun! Let us know how Murph does with it!
excuse my ignorance, but what is the benefit of pounding the poultry with a hammer??Gonna beat the poo outta them with the poultry hammer I bought LOL.
To make nervous owners like me feel a little less nervous lol.excuse my ignorance, but what is the benefit of pounding the poultry with a hammer??
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it takes a bit for them...there's a learning curve for you and the dog....To make nervous owners like me feel a little less nervous lol.
He's "eating" a chicken wing right now. At least, he's attempting to figure out how to eat it haha.He seems to be making progress as the minutes go on. And I'm sitting here nervously incase I need to perform doggie CPR.
Did he re-eat it? I wouldn't worry too much about it, especially if you whacked the crap out of it. Our Dane puppy Akasha has swallowed so many whole RMBs without chewing them fully. A lot of dogs do this. Just means that you should give him something bigger to eat next time. Try not to panic :wink:Ugh. He threw up WHILE eating it. I gave him one chicken wing and he nibbled on it, and crunched it a bit, and had almost the ENTIRE thing down his throat.
Give them something a bit bigger to eat, so they can learn to hold it down. Our dogs eat with their food dangling from their mouths all the time, but I figure if they were having too hard of a time eating they would learn to eat another way. It just might be that this is the way that your dogs eat. I have found that ripping the meat off the bone is only really done by our two dogs that were raised on raw, like its something that is innate with puppies but is lost in adulthood. Our other two dogs that were switched as adults will sometimes rip the meat from the bone, but it did take a long time for them to figure that out.how do i teach the dogs to use their paws to hold down the meat so they can eat more efficiently?
right now they are chewing with drumstick hanging out of their mouths, and haven't figured out to use the ground to their advantage.
and then more often than not, end up swallowing most of it. (makes me nervous)
if they swallow too much, they regurge a bit, but still haven't figured out how to rip the meat from the bone.
should i try giving them something other than drumsticks?
You don't. They will either figure it out or not. None of my dogs have ever held anything down with their feet. It always dangles out the side of their mouth.how do i teach the dogs to use their paws to hold down the meat so they can eat more efficiently?
They will get better in time. If not, feed something larger like leg quarters.and then more often than not, end up swallowing most of it. (makes me nervous)
Regurging is exactly how it's supposed to work. That will happen less and less frequently. None of my dogs has ever ripped meat from the bone. I think that is a human thing. The dogs just crunch and swallow.if they swallow too much, they regurge a bit, but still haven't figured out how to rip the meat from the bone.
Thats up to you. I don't see you have a big problem right now.should i try giving them something other than drumsticks?
Its definitely not a "human" thing. It's an innate instinct for eating. All of our dogs eat like this every time they get a big RMB or beef rib.None of my dogs has ever ripped meat from the bone. I think that is a human thing. The dogs just crunch and swallow.