Can you tell...

[draggonlaady]

that the writer of this article is pro-veterinarian?

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/pawprintpost/post/2010/04/dog-owners-fda-issues-warning-about-dog-bones/1

And more love to the politicians...

http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local-beat/Horse-Meat-Rules-to-Get-Stricter-91734269.html

Current law bars the sale of horse meat for human consumption unless clearly stamped, marked, and described as being for that purpose.
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The soon to be law would prohibit the transporting, distributing, purchasing or possessing of horse meat for human consumption without such a stamp, mark or description.

So... now you can be arrested for buying horse meat because the seller didn't label it properly? THAT makes sense. Also, wouldn't it just be a hell of a lot easier, and much more effective in eliminating "horse poaching" to make it acceptable for legitimate slaughter plants to process horse meat?

gaah.

Comments

[sphynx-again.livejournal.com]

And yet dogs have been eating bones for thousands of years and haven't gone extinct yet. Amazing.

[draggonlaady.livejournal.com]

Well, raw femur is different than ham bones sliced into rings and then cooked. Be hard to make a ring of bone to snag on their jaw from what you'd get tearing apart an elk, and they get a lot more brittle with cooking.

[sphynx-again.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I wasn't sure what that bit about a ring of bone was about. But then, I'm not all that familiar with bones. The only hollow-type bones I've ever seen were more funnelly shaped and I seriously can't see how they could get stuck on a jaw of even a very small dog. And I only pick up raw bones for my dogs, if I'm feeling in a spoiling mood. Every now and then someone will donate bones to the shelter, and not too long ago they were cooked so I threw them away. I guess I always thought the "don't give your dogs cooked bones" rule was actually a rule. Maybe I was wrong?

[draggonlaady.livejournal.com]

It's a rule in my house; Rally will take a cooked bone, even a huge roast or ham bone, and break it into chunks and share it out and then all the dogs are puking up bone chunks. Great fun.

I've seen the ring around the jaw thing 2 or 3 times; when you slice a big bone like a femur into 2-3" chunks so they can get all the marrow out, they can get the edge of that snagged behind their lower canine teeth and then they freak out and can't figure out how to get it back off.