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Pet Dental Issues?
Ever wonder why your pet's teeth are so bad? Why ARE your pet's teeth full of plaque? Why does your pet have bad breath? Young or old, it seems that dental issues are a common problem for pets!Well it is pretty logical to us at The Dog Bowl and we will tell you why! Let's get right to the source of the problem of pet dental issues! Is your pet is eating dry food?
Let's start by doing an experiment together: Place a bit of that dry food in the palm of your hand. Next add a little water. Hold it for a few minutes and let's see what starts to happen. You first notice that your initially clean hand starts to feel greasy. Next you notice how the once, dry food, starts to get soggy and swells up. Followed by a pasty mess! Yuck! Is you hand really messy? Our is! Yuck yuck yuck!
Didn't the television commercial tell us that the dry food cleans our pet's teeth? How can that be? As it made a pasty, sticky mess in our hands! We had to wash our hands multiple times just to get rid of the fatty grease residue!! Logically there is NO way that if our hand is full of a sticky, pasty mess that you could tell me our pet's mouth didn't end of this way as well! My hand is not clean, therefore why would my pet's mouth be any different?
Next let's look at the way the pet's skeleton and jaw functions. Looking at your pet's jaw you can clearly see that they are NOT capable of moving their bottom jaw to the left or the right. They can ONLY move their mouth up and down. Grab your pet & move their jaw to see! Quite simply, the way your cat or dog (they both have the same function) is supposed to eat is to "pull and tear" at their food. (Even more of a reason to consider raw food - click here to read more about B.A.R.F.) Your pet is literally swallowing the dry food, air and all (Why do you think people think they need to provide raised dog bowls? Because their pet is gulping air!), and in a effort to swallow it, and as they move their jaw “up & down” you hear crunching sounds. Dry food is not "chewed" as we have seen in our pet's anatomy -- they simply cannot chew! In addition, those now broken bits of food mixed with saliva make ideal, pasty lodging boats in your pet's mouth, nicely parking along the gum line. Yikes!
I feel betrayed! How about you? ALL these years we hear that our pet chews their food & that the dry, cereal like, food cleans their teeth! Looking at reality and facts, the billion dollar marketing is NOT true! Add on another vet dental bill & you can see - Why would the dry pet food industry want you to think otherwise?
That processed, dry food enters your pet's mouth, mixes with the saliva (much like the water in your hand experiment), and forms a nice, sticky paste and a mess in their mouth - which your cat or dog can't remove! (Remember they cannot move their jaw to the left or right. We can move OUR jaw left to right & think about how sticky chips or cereal items get in your back teeth!). The dry pet food paste sticks in their back teeth and sits their to simply rot away the enamel and gums. Why wouldn’t your pet have bad breath after a few meals like that?
We, at The Dog Bowl, hate to bring you this depressing news, but we would rather you know now that later! There is always a cause for a problem! And much of western medicine practice is to put a “band aid” fix on the issue, not to seek out the root of the problem. And as we have found, that root being the dry pet food industry makes A LOT of money! And so do the veterinarians that recommend it!
In conclusion, we want you, our reader and fellow pet owner, to think about options for your pet. Please! We urge you! There are reasons for why your pet has dental issues. There are millions of pets with the same issue. We are certain when you start pulling on "the why thread" logical answers can and will follow. (Start by reading about commercial pet food - click here.) With good information you can make better choices and decisions for your pets (and for yourself). After all, you are your pet’s source for guidance, training, food and shelter.
Labels: BARF Raw Pet Food, Dog Diet, Dog Nutrition, Dog Treat, Pet Dental Care
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WOW! All these years I have been feeding my dog a milk bone thinking that it would help with his bad teeth! I read this blog and had a light bulb literally go off! That milk bone is the root of my dog's bad teeth problems!?! I NEVER would have put two & two together!! AND WOW My dog DOES NOT chew!!! Thank you Dog Bowl for this information about dental issues. This has changed my thinking and what I am going to feed him from now on!
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Thank you Dog Bowl!
This is a valuable source of information - even if I don't agree with everything, at least it makes me think!
Thank you Dog Bowl!
This is a valuable source of information - even if I don't agree with everything, at least it makes me think!
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: 9:26 PMI wish I had seen this website years ago.... Would have saved me so much money on vet bills! My pets would have been happier & healthier if I had known what I know now!
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