It is a real concern whether your best friend, who is begging at your side, can have that cooked steak bone, that you are carefully cutting around. STOP! The issue of this bone is that it is cooked, unless you are a vampire eating a completely raw steak! The raw bone has so many advantages, that you may consider cooking your meals differently as well.
The cooked bone will be a source of fragility. It will be easily splintered, and can be a death sentence to your dog. Consider this, if your dog is given a cooked bone, she may try to chew it, and break it apart, eating the splinters. Then, that splinter, will move into your dog's digestive path, and there is a very good chance it will get stuck, or you will have a real problem of a dog intestinal obstruction. This is a real problem, and most dogs require immediate veterinarian attention.
Some symptoms of an intestinal obstruction are lack of appetite, drooling, vomiting, and irregular bowel movements. The dog's poop can be very runny, bloody, and frequent. It is a dangerous situation, and if not attended to, the dog runs the risk of dying.
This means you are really going to have to avoid feeding cooked vs. raw marrow bones to your dog. A cooked bone is a risk-there are many times where a cooked bone is fed to a dog, and they are OK. But would you ever want to run the risk of losing your best friend?
Be sure to see my post on raw bones. It is the way to go for your best friend!
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