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Can cats digest bones?
Last night, I was polishing off a KFC 2-pc original thighs &
drumstick. I decided to let my cat have the drumstick since it had some skin on it and some cartilage. I saw her pull the drumstick off the plate and put it on the floor, working on the cartilage on the drumstick. I went back to watching TV and later noticed the whole bone was gone! So here I'm having visions of expensive surgeries to remove a bone that won't come out. Someone told me that cats can digest bones, while dogs cannot. Is this true? -- Hilary Duff is America's Sweetheart & an international HeartBreaker. "FAILING = Finding An Important Lesson, Inviting Needed Growth" -- Gary Busey |
"Ablang" wrote in message ... Last night, I was polishing off a KFC 2-pc original thighs & drumstick. I decided to let my cat have the drumstick since it had some skin on it and some cartilage. I saw her pull the drumstick off the plate and put it on the floor, working on the cartilage on the drumstick. I went back to watching TV and later noticed the whole bone was gone! So here I'm having visions of expensive surgeries to remove a bone that won't come out. Someone told me that cats can digest bones, while dogs cannot. Is this true? From what I've read, raw bones are ok for cats but not cooked. Cooked bones splinter - result being your visions could be recognized. Best wishes to your cat and you. Judy and Matilda. |
"Ablang" wrote in message ... Last night, I was polishing off a KFC 2-pc original thighs & drumstick. I decided to let my cat have the drumstick since it had some skin on it and some cartilage. I saw her pull the drumstick off the plate and put it on the floor, working on the cartilage on the drumstick. I went back to watching TV and later noticed the whole bone was gone! So here I'm having visions of expensive surgeries to remove a bone that won't come out. Someone told me that cats can digest bones, while dogs cannot. Is this true? From what I've read, raw bones are ok for cats but not cooked. Cooked bones splinter - result being your visions could be recognized. Best wishes to your cat and you. Judy and Matilda. |
I sincerely hope that your cat
is allright. Vets say that bones can splinter and be harmful to a cat's stomach, but I realize that all cats are different. Again, Good Luck!!!!! perky1 "Ablang" wrote in message ... Last night, I was polishing off a KFC 2-pc original thighs & drumstick. I decided to let my cat have the drumstick since it had some skin on it and some cartilage. I saw her pull the drumstick off the plate and put it on the floor, working on the cartilage on the drumstick. I went back to watching TV and later noticed the whole bone was gone! So here I'm having visions of expensive surgeries to remove a bone that won't come out. Someone told me that cats can digest bones, while dogs cannot. Is this true? -- Hilary Duff is America's Sweetheart & an international HeartBreaker. "FAILING = Finding An Important Lesson, Inviting Needed Growth" -- Gary Busey |
I sincerely hope that your cat
is allright. Vets say that bones can splinter and be harmful to a cat's stomach, but I realize that all cats are different. Again, Good Luck!!!!! perky1 "Ablang" wrote in message ... Last night, I was polishing off a KFC 2-pc original thighs & drumstick. I decided to let my cat have the drumstick since it had some skin on it and some cartilage. I saw her pull the drumstick off the plate and put it on the floor, working on the cartilage on the drumstick. I went back to watching TV and later noticed the whole bone was gone! So here I'm having visions of expensive surgeries to remove a bone that won't come out. Someone told me that cats can digest bones, while dogs cannot. Is this true? -- Hilary Duff is America's Sweetheart & an international HeartBreaker. "FAILING = Finding An Important Lesson, Inviting Needed Growth" -- Gary Busey |
I can only repeat, best wishes on these going through your cat without
incident. Cooked bones are easily splintered. If you ever give the cat a bone again and I know I wouldn't, I would hope that it is raw as it is much less likely to be able to splinter. Best wishes on this again. Larry Osborne "perky1" wrote in message ... I sincerely hope that your cat is allright. Vets say that bones can splinter and be harmful to a cat's stomach, but I realize that all cats are different. Again, Good Luck!!!!! perky1 "Ablang" wrote in message ... Last night, I was polishing off a KFC 2-pc original thighs & drumstick. I decided to let my cat have the drumstick since it had some skin on it and some cartilage. I saw her pull the drumstick off the plate and put it on the floor, working on the cartilage on the drumstick. I went back to watching TV and later noticed the whole bone was gone! So here I'm having visions of expensive surgeries to remove a bone that won't come out. Someone told me that cats can digest bones, while dogs cannot. Is this true? -- Hilary Duff is America's Sweetheart & an international HeartBreaker. "FAILING = Finding An Important Lesson, Inviting Needed Growth" -- Gary Busey |
I can only repeat, best wishes on these going through your cat without
incident. Cooked bones are easily splintered. If you ever give the cat a bone again and I know I wouldn't, I would hope that it is raw as it is much less likely to be able to splinter. Best wishes on this again. Larry Osborne "perky1" wrote in message ... I sincerely hope that your cat is allright. Vets say that bones can splinter and be harmful to a cat's stomach, but I realize that all cats are different. Again, Good Luck!!!!! perky1 "Ablang" wrote in message ... Last night, I was polishing off a KFC 2-pc original thighs & drumstick. I decided to let my cat have the drumstick since it had some skin on it and some cartilage. I saw her pull the drumstick off the plate and put it on the floor, working on the cartilage on the drumstick. I went back to watching TV and later noticed the whole bone was gone! So here I'm having visions of expensive surgeries to remove a bone that won't come out. Someone told me that cats can digest bones, while dogs cannot. Is this true? -- Hilary Duff is America's Sweetheart & an international HeartBreaker. "FAILING = Finding An Important Lesson, Inviting Needed Growth" -- Gary Busey |
On 26 Nov 2003 09:34:11 +0800, Ablang
dijo: Last night, I was polishing off a KFC 2-pc original thighs & drumstick. I decided to let my cat have the drumstick since it had some skin on it and some cartilage. I saw her pull the drumstick off the plate and put it on the floor, working on the cartilage on the drumstick. I went back to watching TV and later noticed the whole bone was gone! So here I'm having visions of expensive surgeries to remove a bone that won't come out. Someone told me that cats can digest bones, while dogs cannot. Is this true? I've had cats for decades. I have always shared my fried chicken with them, (Aside -- Popeye's is much better than the Colonel.) I've never had a problem with a cat, and that includes probably thousands of bones given to them. I realize that everyone parrots that you should not give chicken bones to animals, although some qualify it just to cooked bones. Well, let's use a little common sense here. First, what do cats in the wild eat? Birds, of course, as well as other critters with small bones. Surely their evolutionary process has provided instincts for how to handle this. In fact, humans have the same instincts. I've eaten hundreds of buckets of fried chicken over my lifetime, and I have yet to even choke on bone. How do I manage that? Well, because I instinctively strip the meat off and leave the rest of the bone. If I were starving to death and the chicken part was all I had, I might crunch the bone with my teeth to get the marrow out of the middle, but I still would not swallow the slivery parts. Cats don't either. As a second consideration, consider what's in the cat's stomach. It's pretty much the same as what's in a human stomach, that is, acid. Very powerful acid, in fact. Try dropping a bone into that kind of acid and see what happens. Calcium and acid don't get along well. There's a lot of fizzing and commotion, and the acid ends up winning. My point is that, if the bone makes it at least to the stomach, there should be no further problems from it. Over the years I've shared probably a thousand or more chicken bones with my cat companions, and there has never been a problem. The last time this issue came up I posted more or less the same facts and everyone said I was just lucky. So I responded by asking if, of all the thousands of people who read this newsgroup, anyone could report having had a problem feeding a cooked chicken bone to a cat. Result? Not one response. My conclusion? That feeding chicken bones to cats is dangerous is an urban myth. (Note I am talking strictly of cats here -- dogs wolf their food down and it may be much more dangerous for them.) As for the fact that the bone you gave your cat was completely gone, I suggest you search harder if you're really concerned. I'll bet it turns up behind a piece of furniture somewhere. My cats always chew the ends off a drumstick or thigh bone, and leave the middle portion, although some of my cats have crunched the middle portion to get at the marrow. They still leave the splintery parts, usually scattered all over the floor. (Their job is to eat, sleep and poop. Mine is to clean up after them. They perceive this as the natural order of things. Tidiness is not in their job description.) And before someone quotes a veterinarian who says it is dangerous, my cat's vet (who I feel is extremely competent) says there is no problem at all. She says she gives cooked chicken bones to her cats at home. I suspect some vets may be as much the victim of urban mythology as the public. And I'll repeat my challenge: If anyone has ever had a cat suffer harm as a result of eating a cooked chicken bone, please post. I still think we'll get no reponses. It doesn't happen because it's an old wives tale, probably created by extrapolation from dogs, for whom it probably *is* dangerous. -- Bogus e-mail address, but I read this newsgroup regularly, so reply here. |
On 26 Nov 2003 09:34:11 +0800, Ablang
dijo: Last night, I was polishing off a KFC 2-pc original thighs & drumstick. I decided to let my cat have the drumstick since it had some skin on it and some cartilage. I saw her pull the drumstick off the plate and put it on the floor, working on the cartilage on the drumstick. I went back to watching TV and later noticed the whole bone was gone! So here I'm having visions of expensive surgeries to remove a bone that won't come out. Someone told me that cats can digest bones, while dogs cannot. Is this true? I've had cats for decades. I have always shared my fried chicken with them, (Aside -- Popeye's is much better than the Colonel.) I've never had a problem with a cat, and that includes probably thousands of bones given to them. I realize that everyone parrots that you should not give chicken bones to animals, although some qualify it just to cooked bones. Well, let's use a little common sense here. First, what do cats in the wild eat? Birds, of course, as well as other critters with small bones. Surely their evolutionary process has provided instincts for how to handle this. In fact, humans have the same instincts. I've eaten hundreds of buckets of fried chicken over my lifetime, and I have yet to even choke on bone. How do I manage that? Well, because I instinctively strip the meat off and leave the rest of the bone. If I were starving to death and the chicken part was all I had, I might crunch the bone with my teeth to get the marrow out of the middle, but I still would not swallow the slivery parts. Cats don't either. As a second consideration, consider what's in the cat's stomach. It's pretty much the same as what's in a human stomach, that is, acid. Very powerful acid, in fact. Try dropping a bone into that kind of acid and see what happens. Calcium and acid don't get along well. There's a lot of fizzing and commotion, and the acid ends up winning. My point is that, if the bone makes it at least to the stomach, there should be no further problems from it. Over the years I've shared probably a thousand or more chicken bones with my cat companions, and there has never been a problem. The last time this issue came up I posted more or less the same facts and everyone said I was just lucky. So I responded by asking if, of all the thousands of people who read this newsgroup, anyone could report having had a problem feeding a cooked chicken bone to a cat. Result? Not one response. My conclusion? That feeding chicken bones to cats is dangerous is an urban myth. (Note I am talking strictly of cats here -- dogs wolf their food down and it may be much more dangerous for them.) As for the fact that the bone you gave your cat was completely gone, I suggest you search harder if you're really concerned. I'll bet it turns up behind a piece of furniture somewhere. My cats always chew the ends off a drumstick or thigh bone, and leave the middle portion, although some of my cats have crunched the middle portion to get at the marrow. They still leave the splintery parts, usually scattered all over the floor. (Their job is to eat, sleep and poop. Mine is to clean up after them. They perceive this as the natural order of things. Tidiness is not in their job description.) And before someone quotes a veterinarian who says it is dangerous, my cat's vet (who I feel is extremely competent) says there is no problem at all. She says she gives cooked chicken bones to her cats at home. I suspect some vets may be as much the victim of urban mythology as the public. And I'll repeat my challenge: If anyone has ever had a cat suffer harm as a result of eating a cooked chicken bone, please post. I still think we'll get no reponses. It doesn't happen because it's an old wives tale, probably created by extrapolation from dogs, for whom it probably *is* dangerous. -- Bogus e-mail address, but I read this newsgroup regularly, so reply here. |
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And I'll repeat my challenge: If anyone has ever had a cat suffer harm as a result of eating a cooked chicken bone, please post. I still think we'll get no reponses. It doesn't happen because it's an old wives tale, probably created by extrapolation from dogs, for whom it probably *is* dangerous. -- Bogus e-mail address, but I read this newsgroup regularly, so reply here. Anyone here who wants to test their beloved pet in a challenge over whether cooked (and admitedly brittle) bones are safe for their cat, or dog for that matter, sign up here. If I were you I'd sure post a bogus email address too! Cats eat raw birds. So do dogs, with no known ill effects. If you have leftover KFC or any other kind of fried food it's better off in the trash. Animals (including humans) aren't built to eat lots of that stuff. If you insist on giving this to your pet you can at least strip off the edible parts and toss the bones where the animail won't be put at risk of finding them. Yes, I am ****ed about giving animals food that isn't intended for them. My father thought it was "cute" that his dogs liked ice cream, hamburgers, candy and all other sorts of things that in the end killed them. His idea of a good time was tossing candy down the hallway and having our loved dog retrieve it and eat it. When she became diabetic he acted dumb about the whole thing. Dogs get dog food. Cats get cat food. If you give your pet anything else that is not approved by the general conventions of veteranary medicine you sure aren't doing them any favors. In over 30 years of keeping my own pets I've never, ever given any of them table scraps. And you know what? All my animal friends have thrived. My 'pets' are my friends and companions. They are not circus clowns made to beg for their food at the dinner table. Maybe too harsh a response, but I have really strong feelings about this issue. Alan ----== Posted via Newsfeed.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeed.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups ---= 19 East/West-Coast Specialized Servers - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- |
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