Greenies DANGER!!!

23-Nov-2005, 02:16 PM

Angel99

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Greenies DANGER!!!

The below email was on the agility list I am on so thought I would pass
it on. Greenies is one of the few treats my guys have never tried
(maybe its the hideous colour or the cost?), so if you have them at
home, maybe you could do the experiment.

The link is very interesting reading as well there are lots of similar
reports on google searches.

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This might be interesting for some of you to read if you use these
treats.

I have a warning to pass on...
On the way back from the Dobe National this year, I was walking one
of the dogs at the airport waiting for the owner to return our rental car
when the dog decided to throw up.....I was shocked to see a mass of
green rubber-like material and immediately called the owner. The mass
looked like something you would see in the pad under a carpet. I was
assured the dog did not shred anything...and that the only thing the dog
had been given to eat recently was a "Greenie"...one of those formed
green dog treats that look like a toothbrush.....I couldn't believe one
of those pressed dog treats would reconstitute into what looked like a
mass of foam rubber pieces!

Well, after getting home my friend did an experiment....cut up one of
those things and soaked it in water overnight....low and behold a mass
of foam rubber crap! Certainly NOT digestible! We both made a note to
never feed those things again...and then last night in the Seattle area
the newscast did a piece on...you guessed it GREENIES! A whole story
about how dogs are DYING from blockages after eating those stupid
things! Here is a link to the article....turns out they are NOT 100%
digestible.

http://www.kirotv.com/investigation...021/detail.html

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