The other night Ika, Jevon and I went out to Cabe Rawit, the Indonesian food place on Jl. Kunti, for some ayam taliwang (grilled chicken in Lombok style sauce. Its always good and is served with hot sambal and lalapan (raw vegetables).
Inside people were smoking so we decided to move outside, next to the street. While eating I noticed Ika piled bones and chicken skin on a napkin. “You think its okay for him to eat?” she said. Looking down I saw a scroungy mutt at my leg, gobbling bones and skin. “Why are you feeding this mutt?” I said, “That just encourages them to come in here.” “He like it.” said Ika. I told her that you should not feed a dog chicken bones, as they can splinter in their intestines. “Maybe he can eat anything.” she said.
I carried on eating and said nothing more. This was one of those occassions where 2 people see something entirelyy opposite, and living in Bali you have to deal with this. We foreigners are never going to get locals to see things our way, or should we necessarily.
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My sister always fed her canines with chicken wings bones and other chicken bones but not legs since they were pupies. The eldest one recently died as she was an old lady, the other one still bouncing around like a spring chicken(worst in the mating season!). I’d say the mongrels ate anything including fish in Bali!
Raw chicken bones are fine, but once cooked they can/do splinter as Nick had said!
Hey Nicko… How are you?
We have been organising for Dede’s Mum & Dad to come visit us & they head out to Melb in 4 wks time! They are nervously excited!!!
Take care & love to your family!XXX
Nick, When my folks lived in Singapore my father was alarmed that their pembantu was about to feed the 2 dogs chicken wings. It was just not done in Aus. as it was thought way too dangerous for the dogs. Margaret (pembantu) persisted in loading up the wok with chicken wings for all their meals. They were there for six years and the dogs did not die from a chicken wing incident. Go figure.