{09april2012: i like big bones and i cannot lie}

We get Darwin's raw knuckle bones from the butcher at Pike Place Market, and usually they come cut in half (or thirds) and so one bone is a good snack size for her. The last time I picked up a bag of bones though, they came not cut up and HUGE. Who knew cow knuckles were so large! It was bigger than my fist, probably bigger than two of my fists.

{must.not.make.eye.contact.}

{can.not.resist.}

{give it here!}

{nom! nom! nom!}

When I gave it to her I didn't really think it through, about how big it was and how it may not be good for her to have free reign at it all night. I learned my lesson though... the next night when I took her out for her potty break she was... backed up. Rock hard poop nuggets. Took her 15 minutes of pooping out pebble sized poops in her potty area (two strips of grass along both sides of the dead end by our house). She would not leave her potty area til she was completely done and I swear I went through half a roll of poop bags picking up single nuggets at a time thinking she was done. It was a long process.
The next time I gave her one of those full bones (there were three in the bag I bought), I made sure to take it away after an hour or so.

Is that normal? Rock hard poops after eating/gnawing on a raw bone? Is that okay for them to have rock hard poops? 

{22june2011: wordless Wednesday}

Feed your dog a bone edition:

sorry for the dark iphone video!

{12jan2010: mostly wordless Wednesday}

belated Christmas bone and new year's edition.





{i look like a fool! i hate you woman!}

{is this torture over yet?!}

{happy 2011!}