| my understanding of this subject is....dry is preferrable to canned.
I learned ALOT about dog teeth with my greyhound, Lori (RIP)...while young and living at the track the racers are fed some high calorie/hi carb "mush"......the result is often bad teeth...(there is no brushing teeth @ the track). The dry food we give our little fur babies is great for 'cleaning tartar' and a good work-out for their teeth.
Over the 8 1/2 years I had Lori I had her teeth cleaned at least once per year (@ $150 per trip with blood-work and the usual rotten teeth that had to be pulled).
She was treated for abcessed teeth at least every year and her breath would knock a buzzard off a **poop pile**!!!!!!!!!
By the time she died last week, she only had 3 canines (the long, pointy teeth in front)...NO BACK MOLARS.....and about 5 little front teeth.
Her tongue hung out ALL the time.....and when she drank from the water bowl water would "squirt" out the sides of her mouth all over the place!!!!!
(A BIG MESS!!!!!).
She LOVED chewing 'pig ears' but eventually couldn't.....the last one I gave her she 'gummed it'..but just got tired and gave up!
She was a really great dog.....I miss her so much.....but I dreaded anyone (who did not know) wanting to pet her and risk having her lick them....YUK!!!!
I brushed and brushed her teeth..(the few she had)....I washed her mouth every day...I swabbed tons of "oral care" treatments and breath gels.....
I say all this to get to my point.........I will forever feed dry kibble so no other little fur baby of mine has to go through that!!!!!
P.S. Since Lori had sooooo few teeth in her final days, we tended to feed her some canned food in with her dry kibble.........and of course my hubby thought it was only fair to give the "little ones" some canned also. Yep, they now demand canned food every day...I am trying to get them off of that bad habit by putting a few "drops" of Iams Sauce on the dry kibble and heating for a few seconds....
sometimes it works...sometimes it doesn't..... |