[RKDinOKC]

So...I've had 2 golden retrievers and in the past 30 years have always given them rawhide chips for chews. Over the past 6 years I've noticed them first getting thicker and my golden only liked the thinner ones. She would not chew on the thicker ones just left them laying around. So when I bought a bag I would search thru them to find the bags with the most thin ones.

About 3 years ago the rawhide chips are pretty much off the market and dog people are saying they are bad for your dog, because they cause choking and get stuck in their guts. Did some google and the choking and stuck in their gut problems seemed to be mostly the rawhide chews that look like a bone with a knot in each end. The dog chew them in half and swallow it with the knot dry and not chewed up. My dogs would only eat the thin rawhide chips. Never had any problems with my dogs eating them and they ate a LOT of them.

Asked my neighbor about it when I was picking a choosing thru the bags of rawhide chips for the thin ones, and he was doing the same thing for his dog. Also asked because after Camber visited the Dalmatian Dotty next door, she would come home with a rawhide chew.

So, why are the rawhide chews that have the knots in the ends that look like bones still for sale, and the chips are not?

Found a small bag of rawhide chips at the grocery store. It only had 3 chips in it. She ate the thin one (an hour of puppy chewing fun) and brought both of the thicker ones back to me and left them on my lap. She's done that with a few other toys she refuses to chew on, and that includes one of the kong things they are supposed to like.

I'm just looking for something for Pepper to chew on besides the house and everything in it. Caught her today chewing on the corner of our brick house.