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From: "Terry & Cathy Bering" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I am wondring what berner owners feel is the highest quality dog food to
> raise a berner on.
I feed high quality table scraps (rice, potato, meat chunks, bread, pasta,
etc) and either California Natural or Innova. Innova is too rich for Mic,
but perfect for Nessie and Lliira. Cassie and Mic are on the CN.
> Is it safe to give a puppy raw hide products to chew on during the
> puppy /adolescent stage? How about during the adult stage?
Rawhide is not a good chewing thing. It often comes from third world
countries and the processing and creation process is not great, and it
lodges in the stomach and intestines sometimes and causes impactions. I
prefer petrified bagels (leave them sit on the fridge top until they are
very hard, or freeze them during teething time), natural bones such as a
cow's knuckle bone, or some of the harder chew toys like Rhino Kongs,
regular Kongs, etc.
I've heard some horror stories about Bodas and Greenies but never had first
hand experience with either.
Eileen Morgan
The Mare's Nest
http://www.enter.net/~edlehman
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