Before you buy a dog antler, know the risks
How a freelancing assignment made me concerned about dog toys
I used to see dog antlers all the time when I’d dog board or dog sit. I’d never paid much attention to them. My own dogs had them once upon a time. But they grew bored with them quickly and left them abandoned in a corner, so our family stopped buying them. That was then. As of February, when I see dogs with these antlers, I try to slyly hide them back in their toy boxes or boarding bags. I am not here to dictate what dog owners should and shouldn’t let their dogs play with, but I don’t feel comfortable with dog antlers around when I’m dogsitting or dogboarding. Here’s what happened.
As a copywriter, I do a lot of top 10/15/20/30 lists for an Upwork client. This kind of work can be very dry, but one of my top three favorite clients lets me pick and choose which topics to write about that I’m already interested in — as opposed to being assigned. And I chose dog antlers, thinking that it’d be an easy list to write up as a way to keep dogs busy while you’re away.
While Amazon affiliates do get a percentage if someone purchases a product through their links, that’s not my goal as a writer. My goal is to tell you everything you need to know about a product — both good and bad. If you decide to buy it anyway, that’s your right. And as I was writing up this top 15 list for dog antlers, I realized that this is a pretty dangerous toy if dog owners do not know what to look out for.
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