Dog Bones When can you start giving a puppy/dog dog bones from the pet store?
I was just wondering what age is safe for a dog to be given a dog bone, raw hide, pigs ear etc. My puppy is 3 and a half months and I'm assuming it's still too early but I want to know when I can buy him a bone to give him as a treat and to keep him busy because he gets bored with his plastic toys in about 5 minutes.
I gave my puppy bones and rawhide treats since she was about 9 to 10 weeks old. Just be careful with pig ears because of the sharp corners. My puppy loves to eat Nylabones. They are soft and chewy and they love to eat them.
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my dog goe's nuts when I feed him dog bones near my others, he 'll even try to steal from their mouths
if I throw a dog bone to another dog he'll race to get it first.
Does he get aggressive if the others don't give over to him? My alpha has a food agression to other dogs (Not humans though. Whenever I see him eating I will go over and move his dish or pick up his bone, just so he knows that I am the REAL alpha dog. He always gives immediately and after a few moments I will give it back to him. I keep this up becasue we have lots of children running around all the time and I don't want him thinking it's ok to snap at a child for getting too close to his food.)
But, try as I may, I cannot convince him that the other dogs are as entitled to their food as he is to his. He will growl at them and make them give to him so he can eat first and it gets really annoying becasue I have four dogs and five food dishes. He chases all the dogs away and eats at whichever one they were most recently at.
Once he is finished, they will go and eat.
He does not have this agression to the water dishes, only to food.
With treats, he will sit and whine and even come to me and "ask" me to take the treat away from the other dog. I always tell him no, and if it gets real bad, I put him outside with his treat, or I will put the others outside with their treats. (I alternate so one doesn't get special treatment over the others.)
I hate seperating them like that, in any other area they get a long well. But he is alpha dog and will not bow on the food issue.
Perhaps your pup is in the same boat? Sorry if that's the case. I really have no clue how to stop this pack leader behavior.
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I keep this up becasue we have lots of children running around all the time and I don't want him thinking it's ok to snap at a child for getting too close to his food.)