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US 5,200,212 AGranted
Dog chew with modifiable texture
OwnerHerbert R. Axelrodinventor
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Abstract
A completely digestible highly nutritious dog chew, the texture or hardness of which is easily modified to suit a particular dog by the dog owner. By irradiating the chew in a microwave oven, the chew is caused to expand and is thereby rendered more easily chewable.
Claims9
A method of feeding a dog with a highly nutritious completely digestible dog chew that is quickly and easily individually by a dog owner to the texture preference or hardness modifiable need of a particular dog, said method consisting essentially in the steps of:
- intermixing a combination of 60%-95% casein and 5%-40% gelatin;
- adjusting the moisture content of said intermixed combination to total 10%-30%;
- molding said moisture adjusted combination into a preselected shape of said dog chew;
- placing said dog chew in a moisture proof packaging before substantially any moisture is lost from said molded shape;
- said dog owner removing said dog chew from said packaging;
- just prior to heating said dog chew consumption sufficiently to effect expansion thereof to the degree of hardness preferred by said particular dog;
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- feeding the heated dog chew to said dog.
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