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US 9,788,530 B2Granted
Palatable, long-lasting pet chew product
AssigneeRedbarn Pet Products, Inc.
InventorJeff Baikie
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Abstract
Disclosed herein are pet chew products and methods for making them. The methods include sewing together strips of material obtained from a bovine or from other animals to form an outline of a desired shape; interweaving additional strips of rawhide, animal penis or both under and on top of the strips forming an outline to form a pet chew product of desired shape and size; and drying the pet chew product to the desired moisture content.
Claims8
A method of forming a substantially spherical pet chew product from strips of material obtained from a bovine animal, comprising:
- (a)fabricating flat shape strips of rawhide and/or animal pizzle;
- (b) interweaving the strips over a substantially spherical substrate in the length and number required to obtain a substantially spherical pet chew product;
- (c) dehydrating the pet chew product in a dryer 15 h at 45° C.;
- (d) removing the substantially spherical substrate;
- (e) drying the pet chew product again for 4 h at 45° C.;
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- (f) sterilizing the pet chew product in a sterilizing oven for 10 h at 100° C.
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