Dental Spray
Submitted by Lizzy7217 on July 9, 2011 - 10:32pmHi All,
I was wondering if any of you have tried a dental spray for your bullies? I brush my dogs teeth on a regular basis, but he's starting to get plaque build up and stinky breath. I have noticed various products out there with several different ingredients, and I was just wondering if anyone has found success with any of these products. Thanks in advance!
Liz
Raw Bones
are the best for good teeth and gums. I like the Primal Beef Marrow bones and also the Natures Variety Bison Bones.
aren't bones bad for bullies?
Thanks for the response but, I was told to never give my bully bones or rawhide?
Liz :)
RAW Bones.....not rawhide
Anything that is cooked or pressed is bad.
Hard uncooked RAW bones are the best possible thing you could provide your dog to chew on. Big difference between a Marrow Beef Bone (4 inch) and Rawhide.
Have you read
what makes up dental spray? Check the ingredients....I would suspect it is a bunch of non-natural crap. Maybe peroxide?
Dogs teeth are ment to chew on bones. Not rawhide...but hard cold unprocessed bones. What do you think wolves ate in the wild. Meat and bones. The dogs teeth have not changed over thousand of years. They are still canivores. They eat meat and meat comes on bones.
I've had bulldogs for more then 15 years and the only time I have ever had any teeth cleaned was if they were going under for another procedure and the teeth cleaning could be done.
I lost Norbert at 11 1/2 and he never had a teeth cleaning and he had very nice teeth.
Ever see a dog that was fed canned soft food it's whole life....it's teeth are rotting and the gums as well. Usually the dog ends up with all its teeth pulled.
Bottom line....buy the dog a bone like Primal or Natures Variety RAW bones once a week and it will have beautiful clean teeth. Not processed bone, sterilized or rawhide.
YES! to raw bones!
Dogs' teeth are NOT designed to masticate food like an omnivore's or herbivore's. They are designed to crunch through bone and get the food into swallowable pieces-period.
They also do NOT have any digestive enzymes in their saliva to break down food, especially plant based food, like an omnivore or herbivore does. Their digestion starts in their stomach.
So when a dog eats something like kibble they crunch minimally, more out of instinct than any need to get the pieces smaller, and all those little bits stay on their teeth with nothing to break them down. Also dogs have no dietary need for starches/carbohydrates, it is not something a dog was designed to eat on a regular basis and they have no way to properly get it off their teeth.
The canned food has the same effect because it STILL has starchy fillers/binders in it that pool in and around a dogs' teeth and they have no enzymes to break it down.
The best way to clean dog teeth is to give them something that physically scrapes the tartar off. It is also very beneficial if there is some meat and connective tissue (RAW of course!) on the bone so they have to pull it off, kind of like doggy dental floss.
Cathy and Audrey
I am going to start doing this Deb. Thanks for the info.
I wanted to do something for teeth anyways. Glad this question came up:-)
Amy and Sophia
what about like soup bones I get at the grocery store
nm
very large weight bearing bones CAN chip teeth
for that reason I give Audrey mostly smaller bones. She is an OBSESSIVE, vigorous chewer. Every once in a while she'll get a bison bone, but I stay with her and once all the meat bits are off and she starts on the actual bone I take it away. She gets an occasional lamb shank too, but again it is supervised and taken away once the meat is all ripped off and she's started to eat the bone. Audrey is one that would get a chipped tooth from going to town on a huge bone!
She gets pork rib bones, lamb rib bones to completely consume. We don't feed her chicken at all, but chicken legs, wings, necks, backs, breasts, are all good bones for dogs to crunch through and pull meat off. They LOVE it! I know some feed pigs feet, chicken feet(which are good for glucosamine and teeth and just plain doggy fun). Audrey is a small girl, but she could probably handle beef ribs too, we have just never tried them.
Just remember, RAW unprocessed ONLY!
Cathy and Audrey
chicken wing bones?
My boxer got into the garbage and got them and he was bleeding from the butt - and one of my aunts dogs got a pork bone from the neighbor and it killed her. beautiful dog too. she was shitzu & something.
they were probably cooked bones
cooking the bones changes everything about them! It makes them brittle and splinter. Very dangerous!
With pork, it all depends on WHICH bones. Weight bearing bones for large animals are usually not good unless you have a really LARGE dog with a super strong bite strength. Even a pork chop could give a small dog trouble.
And ANY pork bone cooked is dangerous- NO COOKED BONES! Of ANY animal!
Cathy and Audrey
Still confused
Still confused here...sorry...with the pork or lamb rib bones does Audrey eat the whole thing? meat and bone?
Where would you find these to
Where would you find these to purchase? Are there some type of bones that can be purchased from a local butcher?
there are lots of places to get bones
I do not use the large soup bones because they are usually stripped of meat and Audrey is such an aggressive chewer she is more likely to chip her teeth on them.
I get her lamb and pork from the grocery store or Costco. Same for chicken, duck, quail, turkey, etc....
A lot of pet stores now have RAW meaty bones. I get the bison bones from the place I get the frozen rabbits. Audrey LOVES rabbit and has no problems with any of the bones. I have to be real careful with the bison bones and take them away when the meat is gone.
just DO NOY BUY the processed, smoked, cooked bones from places like PetsMart. Absolutely NO COOKED bones!
The bigger weight bearing, or marrow bones are a "know thy dog" situation. Since they can chip teeth you need to monitor your dogs chewing habits to determine of you want to continue them or not..
Cathy and Audrey