My OH went out for his weekly dog bone scrounge to our local butcher.  The last couple of weeks he has come back with trotters which my dog loves.  However this time the butcher said to him that he ought to bake them in the oven as apparently it doesn't affect the bone - i.e wont splinter etc but will make a lovely (errrr right!?!) jelly come out which the dogs love.  I've always understood that cooked bones are a huge NO NO - can anyone shed any light on this one?

I would never feed cooked bones to my dog. He is raw fed and enjoys a variety of raw meaty bones including trotters but only ever raw and never cooked. If you feed it raw the dogs get the marrow from the bone anyway :)

My two are out in the rain and wind tucking into some trotters :D

Never cook and meat with bones for dogs even if the butcher recommends it ;)

Lucy
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Do your dogs eat them whole?  I have given him 3 now - the first two lasted a few days but gave him one this morning and he's eaten the whole thing - should i be on mass panic mode - he seems absolutely fine and i'm sure i've read other posts where people say that a trotter lasts their dog 20 mins or so - implying they eat the whole thing.

Yes he eats every last bit of a trotter :)

yep mine too! :-D trotters seem to be a particular favourite of theirs

Mine adore trotters - Wouldn't dream of cooking them though...Why would you?  Makes me laugh when butchers become dog feeding experts ;)

Our 5 were left with trotter in their bowles for a couple of days and they totally ignored them, didn;t want to know so they got chucked...Now chicken wings are a different story!

We dont feed raw, just give raw bones and meat as a treat now and again :)

Mine all eat whole raw trotters :D :D

Thank you all v much for the responses - much appreciated.  I decided that cooking was definately out so he just has them raw - however - I gave him one on Wednesay which he ate whole and Thursday morning he was sick - there was pieces of trotter in his sick - not splinters more like small pebble sized.  He seems 100% fine and i've been keeping a close eye on him and, other than some more small pieces in his poo all seems to be ok.  I'm assuming this shouldn't happen so does this mean that trotters should go off the menu?  I dont know if this is linked but a few weeks ago i used cooked pork sausage as his treat in training classes immediately afterwards the class he was sick.  I put it down to excitement but two days later i used another of the sausages (different batch) and the same thing happened.  I'm wondering if he has a pork intollerance?  Is this possible/likely?  And do you think that i should avoid trotters? Part of me thinks the obvious answer is yes - avoid all pork just in case but he really did enjoy those damm trotters!!!

Mine will often yak up trotter bits ...I don;t think any of mine have a pork intolerance, I think it is more likely that they just ate too fast or too much :D

I've been feeding my dog raw for somewhat over a year (lost track of time now!) and very very occassionally he will bring up small bits of bone - 99% of the time it is the morning after he's had a pig leg for breakfast the day before. The first time it happened I asked about it on one of the yahoo raw feeding groups and several people said, in their opinion, it was completely normal and happens when the stomach has had enough of digesting the item and decides to return to sender :D I do believe it's affectionately termed "BBBV" (bile and bone bits vomit). Is it bile you're seeing, or proper sick with other bits of food in?

Having said all that I'm not sure regarding the being sick after the sausages. Food intolerances would more commonly cause the squits though, but I guess you never know!

Hi Zarah it definitely fell into the bile and bone bits vomit! The sausages was proper sick tho.  I'm a veggie however the OH thinks that these sausages were particularly dense and quite rich - we had previously fed him those little pork cocktail sausages for treats with no problem.  Maybe i'll give the trotters a repreive - but steer clear of those sausages. 

Sounds like a plan to me :D