Hiya, I have tried doing a search for any advice on these, but absolutely nothing came back What do you guys think? Baillie doesn't like them but I have given Diesel them once before, and he really loved it, oh and into the bargain, it kept him busy for half an hour ;) But I just wanted Champdoggers opinions on them. I don't give any of them rawhide, or these stuffed bones that you can get in PAH and suchlike, as I feel that if they can sit on the shelf for weeks on end, they must be stacked full of preservatives and god knows what else. So I'd be interested to hear what you think of plain 'ol pigs ears.
Sharon
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We've not long started giving these to Gus too - he adores them although I hate touching them - yuk
I've also seen hooves in the shops too although I havent yet bought these ?
Are they all ok ?

Hi Lel - Haven't tried the 'trotters' yet - that's just too horrible :D Oh isn't it horrible when their old ears have still got hairy bits YUK!! I just sort of tossed it out the bag without really touching it :)
Sharon
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Gave Mr B a couple of hooves. He choked on a small bone won't do that again.

Hiya Sharon, i don't know about health implications but i know Dolly loves them but i don't give them too often because they absolutely hum, like sweaty feet phew!!!!

Hi Stranger :)  How's Dolly? I have to agree they're definately a bit pongy!!
Sharon
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Dolly's doing fine still goofing about!! lol.
Why did you mention the hairy ears??? I've gone right off my tea now :D

I ccouldn't get the link to work ..but this is where there is an old thread on Pigs Ears :

http://www.champdogsforum.co.uk/cgi-bin/board/topic_show.pl?pid=254479;hlm=and;hl=Pig%20ears#254479

:)

I personally would never feed pigs ears or rawhides.  The pigs ears I have seen have been deep fat fried and therefore a no no.  If they were fresh raw from the butcher then I would feed them :D

Fresh and raw!!!! Urgh that's even worse :D I'm staying away from them from now on, better to stay on the pigs head if you ask me lol.

:)

Urgh I agree - Fresh and Raw sounds awful all soft and floppy YUK
Melody thanks for the link I'll go have a look :)
Sharon
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I did a post on hide chews before I got the puppy & I wish you could have seen some of the replies. Then a reply came back saying if we didn't give the dogs everything that was supposed to be bad for them they would get very little. So my motto is if they like a chew give one I just dont leave the dogs on their own with them

Jean

thats interesting. I won't feed my dogs pigs ears, they go straight through them...

do they have any bones in when raw...? or are they just cartilage? will ask the butcher to get some tomorrow :)

Just cartilage.

Pigs' ears are the only thing that Harry has ever snarled at. He really thought they were evil.

Yep i have to agree they sound 'evil' :D like something out of a witches spell book :)

Hiya well I've just read the thread that Melody gave me and I agree with Jean, that nothing seems to be 100% safe for either us or our dogs. So I think as long as it's in moderation and I'm supervising him, I'll still give him one now and again. But sorry I couldn't watch him eat a fresh one
What other things could I give him as a chew that would last a little longer than most things. He gets Jumbones and Rasks and things but they last no time at all :)
Sharon
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When you find out then let me know ;)
I find a good way of keeping them occupied is to hide gravy bones in places like wrapped in her bed so she has to hunt for them.
(Doesn't last too long but it gives her something to do i guess)

How about pizzels or woofers - several names for the same revolting thing - bulls willies. They seem to last awhile, but boy, if you think pigs ears are stinky, get the clothes pegs out for these. My dogs also get fresh marrowbones, always have done, and they last for however long you want to have them hanging around!

Like you say, everything in moderation. My dogs have always had the occasional pigs ear, and all have adored them, you can actually get something called 'honeyed' pigs ears, they are more expensive and I don't quite know how they cook them, but theyre not greasy. You can also get pigs tails (also crispy fried) which they love.

Kat

sorry if this is a stupid question but what is "jerky"???

the beef jerky that you get in packets in supermarkets is dried lungs :D

uuurrrggggh!
gross - so glad i never bought any now

Dogs love em and they are not as smelly as the tripe bits.

When I lived abroad I used to cook lungs for my dogs :D Now that is a smell :D

I give them raw here but there are a bit "chewy" to cut up.  Especially the windpipe :D

Please tell me you're joking?? ;)

No, I have someone who gives me the lungs and liver of their steers when they come back from the abbattoir.  it does take them some time to chew their way through lungs as they are hefty blighters.

p...........lease !! :(
(vomit)

Tohme I think you are teasing about cooking  the lungs

Jean

I used to cook lungs ('lights') for my dogs - and you're right, they do pong! It's especially horrid if the larynx is still attached to the windpipe. When the heat makes the lungs expand, it makes the animal's noise ...

Now you are all teasing

Jean

Sorry, but it's true ... honest! My son, when small, was fascinated ...
:)

OMG i think i'd have to have therapy if i saw my mum cooking them roflmao!!! :D

I would surely die

Small boys can be remarkably ghoulish (you just wait, Chloe!) and the sound of a saucepan bleating can send them into hysterical giggles

OMG - I remember having to stay out the house when a child when my mum was cooking tripe and onions in milk for my dad. The smell made me physically sick. Luckily he didnt get fed it very often urrghhh - lungs - ooh yuck yuck

Gina :p :p

Gina I can remember the smell of tripe as well as a child it gave me the boke. It was made worse by having dad eat it at the table

Jean

I stayed clear til he finished :) Scotsman my dad - is yours Jean? cos I always think of the Scots eating tripe and onions :P :p :p

Gina

PS I'm a Londoner :D :D

Yes a Scots miner hard working men miners I never forget my roots. I get quite emotional about all these claims for whitefinger etc some of the modern miners didn't know what it was like to be a miner before modern machinery. Now you've got me started

Jean

Well if you can't stand the thought of lungs I better not tell you about brains and spinal cords then :D

My grandad was a farmer and butchered all his own stock on site back in the good ole days of self sufficiency ------ sorry 60's lol.

You wanted chicken for Sunday lunch you went to fetch a cockeral out of the yard and killed it plucked it etc then gave it gran to cook - loved doing it on a very frosty sunday morning coz your hands were lovely and warm inside cleaning them out - if you get my drift?  The dogs would be waiting drooling for the innards, used to get shouted at for taking too long dressing them when it was really cold lol. 

It's not just boys who are fascinated by these things, we'd fight over who got the rabbits tail and feet after dad and grandad had been shooting, it used to fascinate me how easy it was to skin a rabbit, or a pheasant that had hung for a couple of weeks, there was never any waste with the dogs about skin, feathers, feet, heads the lot were eaten raw. 

There's so much you can't get these days after the BSE and other problems, about the only thing we didn't give the dogs was the gizzards from the fowl, to pluck a duck or goose you need to dunk the body in boiling water, do it wrong and the head pops up honking, first time a friend helped me kill one of my Xmas flocks she passed out on the first goose honking lol.

I have a chappie that shoots rabbits and pigeons for me; I give them the rabbits whole but I do pluck the pigeons, as you say over a bucket of hot water, I just chop the head off! :D

Steady, Im just about to do lunch

Just out of interest, what does he charge you for rabbits, tohme?

Couldnt give Lily the lurcher a whole dead rabbit to eat - we have trouble enough stopping her eating the pet rabbits :D :D

Nuffink! :D  He had a lot of trouble with his GSD's bowels, I lent him a couple of books on raw feeding and since changing diets the bitch has been brill; hence he shoots for both of us so to speak.

He is a very nice man!

If you want rabbit around here they are about £8 if you can find a supplier!

My son has friends whose dads are farmers, and when they've had a bunny-blitz of an evening I can get them 50p each. But the blitzes aren't very regular. :(

Just wondering, why didn't you give them the gizzards?  Gizzards are served warm on a bed of salad in France as a starter.

Yuck! Gizzards are full of grit for grinding the birds' food ...

Yes, you cut them open and remove any left over food and peel off the thick lining :)

I think it's best to avoid this thread it's making me ill. :D

Yep, remember me mum showing me how to do them :D then she`d put them in the pan with the innards & make gravy or add them to the bones for chicken soup :D  Lovely soup tho & I still can`t make chicken soup like she does! :)

Christine, Spain.