Hi Cheryl First off I will say we are lucky to have all the raw beef bones we need. We buy and have butchered 1 beef per year and the bones are cut up for the dogs.
If any bone we go to feed has excess fat on it we trim some of it off. The shank bones or marrow bones as some folks call them are the leg bones. We try to dig most of the marrow out as it will give them the diarrhea even if they are used to raw bones. The knuckle bones have a lot of cartilage on them and we leave most of that on well trimming off the fat. The dogs like the rib bones, neck bones and back bones the best but chew happily on any bone they get. You might try giving Tanner some digestive enzymes with his AM feeding or with the PM feeding if you only feed once a day. All our dogs get a large spoon of yogurt on their AM feeding. Tanner may also benefit from twice a day feeding if your only feeding once a day. \ Our now 4 month old Shadow " pup from our last litter" will get very soft stools, not diarrhea, if he gets a real fatty bone or one with a lot marrow. All our older Dogs handle what ever bone they get with no problem. By the way, as far as dogs go, bones never spoil, they just get better. They love to hide them in the dirt till they get good and ripe. RB Ray & Pat Burgett Eaglecap Bernese Talee,Lexi,,Bell, Shadow & Max www.goodbernerfood.com http://users.eoni.com/~eaglecap/ Draminski Ovulation Detector Rep
