choking on bone

... or does it??? One day I was eating some chicken, outdoors, somewhere in Africa, with a colleague I had been living with for a few months and two brand new visitors, Dick and Jane1 from the US. After cleaning most, but not all, of the meat off a leg bone, I tossed it to Hozi the Cat, who eagerly grabbed it and took it behind my chair to munch it down. Jane, lunging at the cat, "No, no. No!!!! She'll die, she'll choke to death!" The cat moved behind a different chair, with half the bone, the other half already having been munched down. "Oh, don't worry, I feed her all the chicken bones…