The unseen dangers of raw treats

[cj-sharpy]

Had to post about this.
So Max gets a nice meaty bit of beef spine from the butcher when we go to get his food. So once a week we throw out the old and welcome a fresh red one.
While I try to keep them as outside toys on warm days when the back door is open he likes to chew away in the conservatory.

Went to pick up last weeks bone just now and a MAGGOT drops off it.
When I looked at the door runner he lies in there were more.
Started vacuuming them up and the vacuum brought out THOUSANDS of them.
I could have been sick.
Runner is now vacuumed and outside soaked in bleach to kill the blighters.
Keep the raw treats out side people.


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[angelbears]

I wouldn't want a maggot breeding ground inside or outside. Nor would I want my dog munching on them. I would pick up any treat that can be a breeding ground. If your dog has an open wound they could get in it. Maggots can be a major threat to our pets and to wildlife.

 

[scorning]

Super gross! Thankfully you caught it before your dog got sick. I've always wondered how sanitary raw bones are, although I give them pretty frequently to my dogs. When I give raw bones, I usually have the dogs chew them in their crates or outside. Either way, I try to limit chew time to under an hour and then re-freeze. After a couple chew sessions there usually isn't much left on the bones, so then I can let the dogs chew them in the house and stop freezing them, but I can't leave them out unsupervised because my Doberman will guard them from my dane.

 

[Hector]

Oh ews....raw bones are always tossed out after a day or put in the freezer...

BUT LMAO...also...thousands of maggots, what a nightmare..

 

[cj-sharpy]

I honestly never even thought of this, I know the magpies like to pick at them when Max isn't but I like that cos I like to watch them. The fact that the flies would like to lay on them or where they have been never crossed my mind. in a gross way part of me is thinking "extra protein" haha. The runner is well vacuumed and bleached so hopefully no more wiggley little critters left.

He's still gunna get his meaty bones though, he loves stripping them down.

And yes Hector, at one point I did do my best Zulu voice "Maggots, thousands of em, dont shoot till you see the white of their eyes lads"

 

[Ginurse]

I honestly never even thought of this, I know the magpies like to pick at them when Max isn't but I like that cos I like to watch them. The fact that the flies would like to lay on them or where they have been never crossed my mind. in a gross way part of me is thinking "extra protein" haha. The runner is well vacuumed and bleached so hopefully no more wiggley little critters left.

He's still gunna get his meaty bones though, he loves stripping them down.

And yes Hector, at one point I did do my best Zulu voice "Maggots, thousands of em, dont shoot till you see the white of their eyes lads"

Thanks for the warning and reminder. Maggots....

 

[Boxergirl]

I hate maggots with a passion. When I was a kid, maybe 12 years old, my parents had an outside dog. They were raised to believe that large dogs lived outside, so that's what they did. He had a dog house with a light in it for heat in the winter, which was more than most people did that had outside dogs. Anyway, one summer he became infested with maggots. I spent an entire day with tweezers pulling maggots out of his flesh. It was the most awful, repulsive thing I've ever had to do. Now that I've seen more things, I wonder if they weren't actually rodent botflies because they went straight down in the skin. Either way, it was disgusting and I felt awful for the poor dog.

 

[karennj]

we get dogs with maggots more times than I would like to see at the vets office. If your dog has an open wound they SHOULD NOT be outside!

 

[DDSK]

Maggots can be very hard to kill

 

[cj-sharpy]

I hate maggots with a passion. When I was a kid, maybe 12 years old, my parents had an outside dog. They were raised to believe that large dogs lived outside, so that's what they did. He had a dog house with a light in it for heat in the winter, which was more than most people did that had outside dogs. Anyway, one summer he became infested with maggots. I spent an entire day with tweezers pulling maggots out of his flesh. It was the most awful, repulsive thing I've ever had to do. Now that I've seen more things, I wonder if they weren't actually rodent botflies because they went straight down in the skin. Either way, it was disgusting and I felt awful for the poor dog.

Sounds like Mangoworms, something we dont get here in the UK. I'd recommend youtube vids but maybe not for you!

 

[cj-sharpy]

No wounds here so I think we are safe. Gave him a good brush and a check over to make sure he wasn't carrying any.

 

[Boxergirl]

Sounds like Mangoworms, something we dont get here in the UK. I'd recommend youtube vids but maybe not for you!

I know what those are, but I don't think we have them in the US. And my dog had no wounds at all, so that's what makes me think they weren't actually maggots. I was always told that maggots only feed on dead flesh which is why they were used for cleaning wounds years ago. So there are benefits to them. I still hate them.