A Bone is not a Gift but a Problem Waiting to Happen

Watertown Animal Hospital’s 10 Top reasons to not give your dog bones:

1. Broken teeth.
2. Mouth or tongue injuries.
3. Bone gets looped around your dogs lower jaw.
4. Bone gets stuck in the esophagus.
5. Bone gets stuck in the windpipe.
6. Bone gets stuck in the stomach.
7. Bone gets stuck in the intestines.
8. Constipation due to bone fragments.
9. Severe bleeding from the rectum.
10. Infection in the abdomen from a puncture in the intestine by bone.

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