Best chew bones for teething and mischievous puppies

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Rottweiler puppy with toy bone
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Give a dog a bone, they say. Unfortunately, as even the newest of dog owners must know, a bone left over from your delicious Sunday roast is about the last thing you should be giving a puppy. Cooked bones are brittle, and can shatter into shards causing all sorts of veterinary emergencies, from broken teeth, to choking and intestinal tears or blockages.

However, puppies do love to chew and in fact have a physical need to do so to relieve the discomfort of teething gums. Chewing a bone can improve their oral hygiene too, by descaling tartar and massaging the gums. Giving puppies something appropriate to gnaw on will also help prevent the destruction of household items.

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Martha Terry
Martha Terry
Features editor

Martha is an experienced journalist who is mad-keen on horses and dogs. Her reporting CV includes the Paris Olympics, European championships, Aachen World Equestrian Festival and World Cup finals. After growing up with assorted liver and white springer spaniels, she enjoyed 14 years with two rescue dogs. Now, her constant companion is Fidget, an extremely energetic and habitually muddy black and white springer. Martha has written on topics as diverse as a top horse’s clone to the best GPS trackers for dogs, as well as equestrian and rural matters for Country Life, The Field, The Times, The Spectator and The Telegraph alongside Horse & Hound.