My pup swallowed a whole chicken wing!

Hey everyone,

So we've been embarking on this raw feeding, and so far so good. Until last night - I gave one of my dogs (5 month old pup) a chicken wing. I was holding onto the one end of it to ensure she munched and crunched it up before swallowing... unfortunately it was a slippery sucker and she managed to grab it away and swallow it whole before I could grab it back!

She is fine - she spewed up the bone this morning thank god as I was freaking out!

I have read that dogs who have previously been on kibble only diets sometimes forget to chew their food, or have learnt not to bother.

Anyone had any experience with this? Or any ideas on how I can teach her to chew first?! Maybe she will need bigger bones that she'll have to chew first prior to swallowing?

Perhaps just feed her bone that has already been ground up into mince etc until she's a little older/experienced so that she's still getting her bone ratio but not doing herself any damage! I've only ever fed lurchers puppies raw and gave them chicken necks for the first 6 months or so, but never had a problem, staffies are a little more impulsive than sight hounds though lol!

Yeah mince with bone in or larger bones that she can't swallow whole, perhaps a thigh or chicken carcass x

We started with mince as Bane struggled a bit with bones to start with. They will only chew as much as they need to to get the food down so she must have thought it was about the right size  If they struggle, it will usually come back up, but obviously it's not very nice and it could cause a blockage!

its okay if she swallows it whole as if her stomach can't handle it she will just bring it up again..dogs dont chew they just make it smaller enough to swallow, when feeding bone just keep an eye on them.. It takes tia about a minute to swallow her wings too..