Keeping teeth clean?

• smilee1079 Posted : 4/19/2006 9:09:24 PM ORIGINAL: jennie_c_d Chicken legs are RMB. Soup bones are recreational bones   OOps... yes, I mixed it up.  Sorry.  Regardless, both are good for teeth hehe. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• jennie_c_d Posted : 4/19/2006 9:10:56 PM Tearing the meat cleans the teeth, somehow. I don't know exactly how it works, but it does 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Stephanie Book Posted : 4/20/2006 6:03:44 PM I give Cassidy rawhide, and I know some people will say that it doesn't really clean their teeth all the way, but it seems to work good for her. Everyone seems impressed by her shiny white teeth, against the black coat [] She also gets the meaty bones, and then she has had a couple of the hard bones, that she can just gnaw on and don't really splinter. I don't give her any type of vegetables/meat though, she gets dog stuf [] Also, I think that a lot of little dogs are probably fed canned or semimoist food, but the dry crunchy dog food should help to keep their teeth cleaner too. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Stephanie Book Posted : 4/20/2006 6:04:50 PM I wanted to add: I've never brushed my dogs teeth, in her entire life. That might help, but her teeth seem clean and have never had any problems so I don't see a need to do that. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• glenmar Posted : 4/20/2006 6:08:13 PM Actually, kibble is said to contribute to tarter because of the carbs, so a dogs teeth will LIKELY stay cleaner on canned than on kibble. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Stephanie Book Posted : 4/20/2006 7:30:14 PM Really? I'd never heard that. That's interesting. Nonetheless, my dogs get dry dog food; the canned stuff is too exspensive! ( Not to mention yucky, in my opinion [] ) 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Firestorm Posted : 4/20/2006 8:02:25 PM Harley won't touch canned food, he only likes dry food.[] 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Amelia Posted : 4/20/2006 8:37:25 PM I have googled this a few times and can find vet sites that claim both sides of the coin...that kibble keeps teeth cleaner than canned and that canned keeps teeth cleaner than kibble. It appears that there are professionals on both sides of the debate. Confusing! LoveMyDogCassidy...if you feed your dog bones then the rawhides are likely not the reason your dog's teeth are white. [sm=wink.gif] Rawhides have no nutritional value for your dog and can be dangerous. Why bother with them at all if you're also feeding bones? 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• jennie_c_d Posted : 4/21/2006 12:07:04 AM Uhh... my dogs eat NO kibble. They haven't in almost six months. Their teeth have never looked better. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Stephanie Book Posted : 4/21/2006 9:48:16 PM Yeah, I've heard that rawhide could possibly be dangerous, though I've never had any trouble with it. The way I see it, the rawhides are something edible to chew on that the dogs like, even if they really don't have any nutritional value. She likes reg. treats okay, but the bones and rawhide she likes to chew on, for exercise I suppose. ( The reason I say 'she' is cause my puppy doesn't get a lot of extra treats/bones or anything like that yet). [] 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• t__m Posted : 4/22/2006 9:25:53 PM We get Talus fresh beef knuckles from the butcher... I boil them for about 10 - 15 minutes and he just devours them... Every now and then we get him a smoked one from my mom's friend, (also a butcher), he smokes it when he makes Polish Kobassa so it "infuses" the flavor in it... 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login