Rawhide Chews For Your Labrador

January 13, 2007 on 10:15 am | In Labrador Articles |

Giving rawhide chews to labradors is a very common snack that is also known to help strengthen their teeth and gums. But is it healthy? Can these chews actually be bad for our precious pets?

You’ll hear tales of all kinds; for example, that feeding labradors sugar will give them worms or that allowing them to stick their heads out the window of a moving car will cause blindness. The truth is that sugar causes obesity, not worms; and that dogs leaning out of cars don’t go blind, but they often do end up as roadkill.

Rawhide chews, on the other hand, are among the great inventions of the twentieth century. They are like pacifiers we gave our children when they were babies. Without rawhides, my dog’s would swallowed my children’s toys instead. The bottom line truth is that rawhides give chewing dogs a wholesome activity.