The leg of a roe deer, a sparrowhawk carcass, a bloated dead frog, poo… these are just a few of our Australian shepherd’s favourite things.
It’s hard to stop our dog Dakota scavenging while out on a countryside walk – there’s often something dead or decomposing in the next hedgerow. When, a few months old, Dakota picked up the wing of a pigeon still attached to some grisly vertebrae, she carried it proudly around the valley like a glittering gold medal. I mentioned this to a seasoned-dog-owner friend. “Never let them eat bones,” he warned. “They can cause all sorts of problems.”
Really? I thought that was just cooked bones. I also wondered what the fuss about chocolate was; when I was a kid, our retriever once snaffed the Easter eggs and suffered no ill effects.
It got me thinking – what was true and what was a myth when it came to dog care? I spoke to a local vet and researched the science. I learned that while the myths
