thanks guys!
Erica wrote:Make sure to pull out the gizzards if they package those inside the chest cavity like they do here - while the meaty bits can and should go in the pot with the rest of the chicken, they may be in a plastic bag or have some absorbant pad around them.
I was munching a mushroom toasted sandwich whilst reading this...kind of made me feel a bit queasy
I've actually bottled out on cooking a whole chicken ...i have bought a cooked chicken, which I'll take the meat off and a couple of raw fillets to cook and make broth with ....
Nettle wrote:There is some toxic fat (from shipping) that gets washed up on our beaches on the south coast, so while I don't want to put the frighteners on you, do check this out because if this is what he has eaten he needs more robust care than your vet is offering. If by contrast he has eaten polystyrene foam sort of litter, then he may have a blockage, so watch out for bowel movements.
We live right on the Thames estuary ...so lots of shipping traffic
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It definitely isn't polystyrene, more like soft white rubber in a lump, so couldn't squish flat like fat...but that dosen't mean it isn't shipping waste fat?
He really isn't a happy lad..just tried him with a bit of cooked chicken and wouldn't eat it (this is the foodiest dog in the world...
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) but on a positive he was barking at the postman earlier...Will google palm oil and keep a close eye on him...