Animal husbandry – Bed or rest
Patent
1990-04-24
1991-07-23
Hirsch, Paul J.
Animal husbandry
Bed or rest
A01K 1500
Patent
active
050334107
ABSTRACT:
Rope woven from semirigid, breakable and elastically deformed synthetic fibers, such as polyethylene fibers, is broken into discrete segments. The rope is woven with portions of the individual fiber's surface exposed and remaining portions of the same surface-exposed fibers embedded within the mass of the rope. The rope is impregnated with a flavored media having a taste desirable to animals. For example, a braided or woven polyethylene fiber rope having individual strands on the order of one eighth of an inch or less is boiled in equal parts of a flavoring media and water for a period of about three hours. Exemplary flavoring can include cod liver oil alone for cats and a combination of cod liver oil and beef broth for dogs. The rope segment can optionally be tied with knots at the distal ends and sealed at the point of severance, as by searing with heat the severed fiber ends. When given to an animal, chewing naturally occurs with the surface-exposed elastically deformed, semirigid fibers breaking at the impact of the animal's teeth. The broken fibers elastically return to their unrestrained disposition and, as a result, extend away from the remaining mass of the rope protruding in a bristle-like fashion. The ends of the broken fibers embedded in the mass of the rope maintain the broken bristle-like fibers in a protruding array extending away from the remaining mass of the rope segment. Further chewing on the part of the animal causes the animals teeth to pass the broken and protruding elastic, semirigid fiber members with a brushing action not unlike that of a toothbrush. There results a natural cleansing action to the teeth of the animal during consumption of the natural bone product.
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Hirsch Paul J.
Toothbrush Bone, Inc.
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