Cooked Meat Bones

[Lush]

I have a quick question that keeps coming up in my household for a few years....

I know you can't give your dog cooked chicken bones but is it safe to give the dog cooked LARGE beef bones.? Im not talking about chop bones but things like a big bone from a steak / rib eye / roast.

Thanks

[MolassesLass]

No! No cooked bones of any type.

Cooking dries them out and leaves them likely to splinter into needle like shards that can rip the dog open from the insides.

[Staranais]

As a rule, I wouldn't. The texture of the bone changes when it's cooked, it's more brittle, so more likely to splinter into sharp fragments when the dog chews on it.

[oakway]

No! No cooked bones of any type.

Cooking dries them out and leaves them likely to splinter into needle like shards that can rip the dog open from the insides.

+1

[Sandra777]

No! No cooked bones of any type.

Cooking dries them out and leaves them likely to splinter into needle like shards that can rip the dog open from the insides.

+1

+2

[persephone]

Raw bones can be digested - however, when cooked, the composition changes, and they can not .

NO cooked bones if possible.

[ellz]

BAD BAD BAD idea!!!!!!!

Very dangerous. I know that many companion animal owners do it as a matter of course....scrape off the bones after a barbie, throw out the roast bone etc etc and get away with it...but they're really tempting fate.

[Lush]

Thanks ever so much guys for your quick response! I have never done it but my partner is new to dogs and he keeps asking me so I had my doubts for a bit there as like some of you have said, I see people do it at BBQ's and stuff.

So thats that then - NO cooked bones.... PERIOD!