What is Better For Dog to Keep His Teeth Clean?
What is better for dog to keep his teeth clean, sterilized bones that your can buy from any online Pet Store or a raw knuckle bone from the butcher? If I get a raw bone is it better to boil it for several minutes before you give it to the dog or let him chew it raw? And I’m wondering, cooked or sterilized bones are harder on the teeth? Could they wear down the dogs teeth? Also I’m concerned that the sterilized bones have some kind of chemicals in them since they look so white.
I have been giving my dog Nylabones and wonder if it would be better to just stick with that kind of bone to keep his teeth clean?
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I would stick with the nylabones but if you do want to feed bones, go to your butcher and get marrow bones. Feed them raw because cooked bones can splinter and severely hurt or kill your dog. If you do get the marrow bone try to get "clean" on that have all or most of the tissue and stuff scraped off. Also scrape the marrow out of them because it’s so rich that sometimes it can give the dogs the poops.
The sterilized bones in the store are awful. They splinter, they are bleached and they won’t do a thing for your dogs teeth. I have been feeding raw for years and when I was younger my family did too, the fear of worms an bacteria is silly. I’m not even going to get into the argument right now, but in 25 years of keeping dogs all I have had to do is get their shots, spay and neuter and have a cut pad stitched up. Oh and 1 ear infection. They all ate raw daily. If you are worried about germs, freeze it first. Cooked bones are dangerous and will splinter because all the gelatine gets cooked out in the process and makes them very brittle and able to splinter. They are also much harder on their teeth because of this.
I have been raising and training dogs for over five years now. All of my dogs have enjoyed treated cow bones. These bones have not been bleached , but have been slow heated to remove any harmful bacteria. If those are to hard for you dog you can use a variety of compost bone. Which include Nylabones, corn starch bones, etc. Please avoid bones made with rawhide. these bones can become gummy and get stuck in your dogs throat which causes choking. also these bones do not break down so they are hard to digest. I have also had problem with greenes in small dogs and puppies. These bones I found out do not break down easily in dogs stomachs causing blockage. They also break off in large pieces which has caused choking in one of my puppies. Over all the safest bone is the kind you are already using or an all natural slow heat beef bone. No pork of Chicken. these bones splitter and cause problems. I hope this helps.
I would never feed my dogs raw anything. I think it is foolish and unhealthy, not to mention dangerous!
My dogs get one kind of bone, and those are bully sticks. I usually buy them in huge bulk, as in 75 pieces at a time, and they each get one a week. They are usually 7 inches long or so and last my dogs close to one hour to finish off. 9 dogs divided by 75 pieces… you do the math.
I think most of the chew choices you get from the pet store out there are plain crap. Most have crap fillers and some are just junk fatty stuff.
My next choice would be plain rolled rawhide, which they sometimes get.
Bully sticks are expensive, but my dogs teeth are as white as can be and this treat is like heaven to them. No dog can resist a bully stick!!
They come in many shapes and sizes, so you can find the right one for your pup.
non-weight-bearing raw bones do a wonderful job on teeth!
side note:
Feeding raw is not only safe, but in fact – feeding an exclusively raw diet it is the prefered method for many who are interested in taking a more holistic approach to raising their dogs including many veterinarians who specialize in nutrition.