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Practical, honest guides on natural chews — sizing, safety, and what actually keeps dogs busy.

A long-haired red dachshund lying on a cream rug in a sunlit living room chewing a braided lamb collagen stick held between its front paws

What Lamb Collagen Chews Are, and Why Every Guide Describes Beef

A lamb collagen chew is one layer of sheep skin: the corium, the collagen sheet under the wool, braided and dried firm. What that layer is, and how it chews.

Aug 27, 2026 7 min read

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How a Bully Stick Is Made, Step by Step

Bully sticks are made by cleaning one beef pizzle, stretching it straight and drying it until the water is gone. Every step, and how to read the drying.

Aug 27, 2026 7 min read

The back of a Foodiepaws bully stick bag showing feeding instructions, an ingredients line reading beef pizzle, and the guaranteed analysis panel

What Is Inside a Bully Stick: One Ingredient, Start to Finish

A bully stick's ingredient line should read one thing: beef pizzle. Here are the eight items a US treat label must carry, run against a real back-of-bag panel.

Aug 27, 2026 7 min read

A tan shaggy mixed-breed dog with its front paws on a wooden fence post looking out across a pasture where black cattle are grazing at sunset

What a Chew Label Can and Cannot Tell You About Where It Came From

A bully stick label proves one country - where the stick was last dried. Where the cattle were raised is a separate claim, and no rule makes a bag print it.

Aug 27, 2026 7 min read

Two one-pound Foodiepaws bags side by side on white, one of bite-size bully stick pieces and one of four-inch bully sticks, with a loose chew from each shown alongside for scale

How Many Bully Sticks Are in a Pound? Count vs Weight

About 15 six-inch sticks, 23 four-inch or 8 twelve-inch, and thickness moves all three. The arithmetic that converts a weight bag into a count pack.

Aug 27, 2026 7 min read

A resealable Foodiepaws bag of 5-6 inch thin bully sticks with a single slim dried beef stick standing alongside it

When a Chew Should Finish Quickly: Sizing for a Light Chewer

A thin bully stick is the same beef pizzle cut narrow, so a light chewer finishes a session instead of leaving half a stick behind. Who it suits.

Aug 27, 2026 6 min read

A boston terrier sitting on a striped hallway runner looking toward a closed white front door

Is Beef Hide the Same as Rawhide? Yes, Same Hide, Softer Word

Yes. Beef hide is rawhide — dehaired, dried cattle skin under a gentler word. The FDA files a brand called Beefhide as rawhide dog chews. We don't sell either.

Aug 27, 2026 5 min read

A chocolate labrador sitting on a hardwood floor beside a couch with a narrow twisted chew and a flat curled strip of dried hide on the floor in front of it.

Bully Hide Is Not a Bully Stick: One Word, Two Tissues

Bully hide chews are hide chews. A bully stick is beef pizzle with no hide in it. The ingredient panel is the field that tells you which one you are holding.

Aug 27, 2026 7 min read

A four-month-old cavalier king charles spaniel lying on a nursery rug beside a basket of soft toys

What to Give a Teething Puppy, and What to Skip

A teething puppy needs chews that bend: thin bully sticks, short ones. Antlers, hooves, nylon bones and jumbo sticks wait for the adult teeth, near six months.

Aug 27, 2026 6 min read

A mixed-breed dog lying in the shade of a farmhouse porch with open pasture and a wire fence behind

Are Bully Sticks a Sustainable Dog Treat? What Actually Holds Up

A bully stick is a by-product of an animal raised for beef: no steer is raised for the chew. That claim holds up. The carbon and landfill claims do not.

Aug 27, 2026 7 min read

A Jack Russell terrier sitting on a kitchen floor looking up toward a counter edge

Choosing a Cow Ear: Size, Odor and What the Labels Mean

We don't sell cow ears. If you are buying one anyway, choose by width rather than the size on the bag, and read what natural and low odor really mean.

Aug 27, 2026 6 min read

A blue heeler lying on the wooden boards of a farmhouse porch in midday shade

Are Cow Tails Safe for Dogs? The Bone, the Fat and the Numbers

We don't sell cow tails. The safety answer anyway: fine for a supervised adult chewer, wrong for a gulper, because the bone works loose part way through.

Aug 27, 2026 6 min read