Bulb fertilizer without bone meal

I'll soon be embarking on my first bulb planting adventure and would love recommendations on a good fertilizer to use at planting time. I'm having trouble finding one that doesn't have bone meal which I want to avoid as we do have visiting critters like skunks, raccoons, and possums, plus I have a dog. I'd rather not give them something interesting to dig up! I'm looking online and it seems like everything I've come across so far either has bone meal or is too vague in the description/doesn't show a good image of the packaging for me to read. Thanks for your advice!

Unless your soil is really poor, just plant your bulbs. Bonemeal is a good source of Calcium. If no one has grown tobacco in your garden plot, I don't think you have to worry. If you still want to add Calcium, water soluble Calcium tables will probably work Grind them up). Calcium isn't really water soluble - it has to be under the rooting system at planting time. The roots grow through it and absorb Calcium that way.

Hmmm, I thought the reason people suggest bone meal was for the phosphorus, not calcium. My other plants have been doing fine with minimal fertilizing so maybe I don't need anything, but I do want my bulbs to come back year after year and heard putting fertilizer underneath at planting would help their longevity.

Bonemeal is used to add Phosphorus. Fertilizers are labled as N-P-K. P is used, by the plant, for root and flowers (fruit). You might want to go by your local nursery and explain your concern. There are other sources of Phosphorus, not just bonemeal. I've had trouble with critters getting into blood meal (N) more so then bonemeal.

You are right, it is used to add phosphorus. My tomato plants have needed calcium and bone meal is a good source for that too. If your other plants do fine without additives, your bulbs should also. My yard is filled with bulbs and has been for years. I have never added bone meal when planting, just compost to hold the moisture (because its sandy here).

Eggshells ground up, then neutralized with vinegar makes a usable calcium if it were calcium you needed. Bloodmeal draws the digging. Bonemeal is a 'Slo release' phosphorous/calcium that simply lasts long enough to build the bulb up for a minimum of first year. Works as well applied topside after first years...

I highly recommend getting a soil test done. At this point you don't even know what your soil consists of. Many times too much of something can be as detrimental as not enough.