Nick nack paddy whack, give your dog a ....wait. A processed synthetic bone shaped toy?

According to the Dogblog at Dogster.com, there are ten very good reasons not to give your dog a meat bone. I've long lived in a home with veterinarians who have forbidden our dogs to have bones, and when I tell people that, sometimes they say, "But dogs have always had bones," "they evolved eating bones," "if bones were bad for dogs, Old Mother Hubbard would have needed a different word to rhyme with 'bone.'" Granted, that person was seven years old.

So people, people, people, please heed this. No veterinarian likes having to open up a dog on a Sunday evening and root around for a bone he wasn't supposed to have. Okay, I may take a little grief over the term, 'root.' They have fancy x-ray and ultrasound machines to help them locate the precise location of an obstruction before they have to go in a root around for it. My point is, let's not make them do it.

Here is another link to Dogblog in case you missed the first one.  It's just that important.