Obviously, these chemicals are bad for your dog where rawhide is sourced matters.
Some tanneries in Asia and South America remove hair from the hides using arsenic, lime, or acid-all of which remain in the leather, even if it is washed afterward.
American hides are the best because there are stricter regulations on the cattle industry in the United States than there are in other countries, higher standards of cleanliness in the slaughterhouses, and only hydrogen peroxide is used to bleach the hides. Make every effort to buy rawhide products that are made in the USA (not just packaged here). It breaks apart more easily and is generally more digestible. Pressed rawhide is different-it is processed, similar to pressed wood, and made of a variety of parts. The Tufts University Veterinary School publication, Your Dog, contradicts this definition of rawhide, stating it is not made from animal skin, but instead from connective tissue, which is the internal tissue between organs, and between muscles and bones. The uncooked skin, or hide, of cattle is stripped of hair, then washed, shaped, and dried. Rawhide is the minimally processed hide of an animal-it’s basically leather. The information below is not intended to alarm you and rob your dog of the pleasure of gnawing on his favorite rawhide, but is offered so you can make the best decision for your pet. There are a number of things you should know about rawhide chew toys and treats so you can give your dog the pleasure of chewing them safely. If you want some tasty healthy chews, these are our recommendations.The answer is yes, and no. We only sell the best, the best is never the cheapest, and we make no apologies for that. Our products are not just packaged here in Australia, they are real Aussie meat. And that meat will be from animals raised here in Australia. When you buy treats from us, you can be sure that the dehydrated treats are pure meat (or fish) that have been air dried.
So what rawhide is safe then? Are there any rawhide treats I can give my dog? The quick answer is none of them - rawhide always has the potential to cause your dog serious harm. Even if it doesn't, by chewing on a by-product of the leather industry for several hours, it may have ingested lead, arsenic, mercury and formaldehyde - they have all been detected in rawhide dog chews. Your dogs stomach can't break down the rawhide, so if it swallows a big chunk of it, there is a good chance it will cause a blockage. So that tasty rawhide chew, marketed specifically for dogs isn't meat, has no nutritional value and has been through a chemical bath, an acid bath, been bleached, painted and glued. And those great bone shapes they come in? Well they do that by glueing the pieces together, and that glue also helps it last a long time. Sometimes, you see rawhide and it's a nice meaty colour, so that must be ok, right? So how do they make it so hard and chewy? This is the really disgusting part (well, the first part was pretty gross but this is worse). Rather than waste that, they came up with this ingenious idea of turning it into a hard chew and selling it to dog owners. Once the top part of the hide has been removed to be used for leather goods, the tannery is left with the section below the 'grain'. They are then treated to a nice acid bath to remove the hairs - no-one wants hairy leather shoes do they? It's the hide, usually from cattle although other animals may also be used When the hide goes to the tannery, it is treated with chemicals to preserve it. It's cheap, it's longlasting, so what's the problem?įirst up, it isn't beef - well it is, but it's not really. So, is rawhide bad for dogs? Why won't we give it to our dogs? Most people think it's a type of beef chew - the name certainly suggests that. We won't sell anything that we wouldn't feed to our own dogs - Baldrick Beagle and Marvinnotabeagle. If you've had a good look around our store, you might have noticed that we don't have any rawhide chews for sale.
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