Chewing wood chips

[wrottdog]

A park I go to puts shredded wood from a tree company in the dog commons. Many dogs chew on the chips. Is this dangerous? The tree company assures me they never have oleander, but what else might be dangerous? Thanks for info.

[chivas]

My old rottie used to chew the bark off trees, talked to vet about this numerous times. Told us to try and stop her but it was impossible, she never had a minutes trouble from it. These where pine trees. All i can tell you.
Kim

[Judi W]

Unlike living tree bark, some of the products used for landscaping are treated with chemicles to discourage bugs, etc. While chewing on it might be harmless, I would certainly discourage eating it. The dogs are there to exercise and play, not to dine, so I would certainly be cautious.

[Rott-Wiley]

I had been told that chewing on pine wood isn't good for a dog because there is supposed to be something in the pine oil that is harmful. They didn't say it was poisonous and I don't know how it is supposed to harm the dog???

[Brooke&Ryan]

I work at a pre-school & 3/4 of our yard is woodchips. When we were putting new woodchips in the yard & dumping the woodchips out of the bags there were all of these nasty, sharp pieces of plastic mixed in with the woodchips. I really checked out all the bags after that before I let the children play out in the yard. We found screws & other odd objects.

Just wanted to give you a heads up. Sometimes woodchips are not the only thing in the woodchips.....

:)
Brooke

[teritoad]

My Zeus loves wood of any kind...sticks from the pine tree, wood blocks, pine cones, etc. I'm constantly taking these things away from him and he has every known chew toy to mankind!:)

Thankfully, though, he doesn't seem the worse for wear from chewing on all of these various things...

We're removing an oleander bush, however, from our backyard because we caught him trying to pull a branch off of it! We found it before he could actually gnaw on it but it scared the $#@% out of us anyway. This bush is huge and is going to be a big job but it has to be done in order to protect my "Woodweiler"!:D