Dog Dental Care

[Chriss]

Hi all,

I'm curious what people use for their pooches dental hygiene and dental care. Particularly interested in toothpastes. What products have you tried and what work?

Thanks
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[Chalky.]

Toothpaste?

[Chriss]

[halucin8]

i use colgate on my dogs teeth, always have. Years ago i had a staff and the vet checked his teeth and asked what i used and i told him he said well if he is letting you that's fine and its working. Never did my dogs any harm.

[Chalky.]

[Paivi]

Hmm, I wonder what the dogs' ancestors used... Doubt it was eitehr Colgate or Pepsodent...

Honestly, sometimes I just despair.
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[stinkwheel]

I usually recommend logic gel and brushing. Start by rubbing it on with a finger and work up to a brush. It's the bit where the tooth meets the gum you're trying to get mostly. The logic gel tastes good for the dog and has some enzymes in it that help dissolve the tartar.

@ Paivi. Dogs used to clean their teeth by eating whole dead animals, including the hair, skin and bones. They clearly don't eat this now on the whole so their teeth don't get as much mechanical cleaning as they would in nature. We have also bred dogs to have odd shaped mouths so there are odd gaps in their teeth that a wild dog wouldn't have.
Classic example. Boxer dog:
https://www.skullsite.co.uk/Boxer/boxer_lat.jpg

Compare this to a German Shepherd which is pretty close to a "normal" dog-shaped skull.
https://www.skullsite.co.uk/Alsatian/alsatian_lat.jpg

So we've bred them to be an odd shape and we feed them an unnatural diet. Part of the bargain is we help them cope with the consequences.

Some dogs have more problems than others, just as some people are more prone to dental and gum disease than others.

Greyhounds and lurchers are some of the worst. I often have to pull all a greyhounds teeth out they get such bad gum disease. I think it's because they delicately pick at their food instead of chomping down on it and tend not to chew at things.

Another thing I sometimes recommend for problem dogs is feeding them Hills TD diet which is made in big lumps that they have to chew at to get down.
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[Martay]

You shouldnt need to do anything with their teeth provided they have chewy things! What sort of dog?
What food are they fed on? A dry diet is a fuckload better for them than the wet. Teeth, digestion, skin+coat, allergies, breath etc etc

Rawhide is good and is cheap, a smallish rawhide treat every other would be fine, provided its not too small that they try to swallow it whole.
Even just a good solid treat would help clean their teeth up. Dont bother with the named brand you see on telly. Bakers / Pedigree etc are a pile of wank juice and additives.
Even cheaper, hit up the local buthers for a doggy bone. It'll keep them quiet for hours and sort most of the rubbish on their teeth.

If the dog is young it will get used to having its teeth cleaned very quickly. An older dog though will just get fucked off with you ramming things in it mouth.

Dont spend 270 on getting them done. You can do just as much good by spending a couple of quid on some treats for him.

Hope some of that helps. I used to work in pet retailing
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Our old girl..Wenlock (bless her beautiful soul) had gnashers to be proud of.

Dry food....a bone every month or so and rope toys. Dentistix when we're flush.

Sweep(the black welsh nazi) also has perfect teeth, surprising as she has robbed more sweets and chocs than a chav's toddler.


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[Chriss]

Hi,

Thanks for the advice all. Our two greyhounds do get dry food. The problem is they do tend to just wolf it down. I genuinely don't feel that our vet is seeing us as a cash cow since they've delayed doing the teeth for a while and has recommended just one of our dogs get their teeth done.

Martay, when you say doggy bone, what do you mean? Just any old bone? Being a vegetarian, I don't often visit butchers.

Stinkwheel, I'll be on the hunt today for some food they actually have to chew on and some logic gel.

[pinkyfloyd]

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Problem solved.
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[WannaBeDude]

Feed them bones they like, when there hungry. Mine get bones every week, and on that day are often not really fed either.

The bones soon get used more when their hungry. Job done, if they present with teeth issues after eating bones weekly then vets it is.

Regular expection of gums and teeth is a must of course.
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[Martay]

[Furrybiker]

Our greyhounds are of course non chewers, we tried some stuff called petzlife, it is expensive (£20) but seems to last a while and it works! Got it online it comes from the states, they also do a version for people!

[hellkat]

Small children.
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