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| Topic Started: Nov 7 2008, 05:46 PM (153 Views) | |
| bailysmom | Nov 7 2008, 05:46 PM Post #1 |
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Baily needs to get his teeth cleaned again this year. he is now 3 years old and it is the second time for him to get his teeth cleaned by a vet. the first time was when he was getting fixed at 2 years of age. how often do your pups get their teeth cleaned professionally? the vet said that baily will probably need this about every 3 years and that i should try to stretch it out as long as i can by brushing his teeth inbetween treatments. she also said that it is a typical problem in small dogs, so i was wondering what your experiences are. how do you keep your pups teeth clean? Edited by bailysmom, Nov 7 2008, 05:47 PM.
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| Ashlee | Nov 8 2008, 02:39 AM Post #2 |
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Sadie's teeth started getting tartar build up when she was young, I'd say by the time she turned 1 you could already start to see the tartar on her teeth. By the time she turned 3 I was asking the vet about teeth cleaning, but when I was told it is like $400 I was a little shocked. So needless to say she hasn't gotten her teeth cleaned yet. Leila however has just turned 1. I noticed she had tartar build up on one of her back teeth about 2 months ago when we started a raw diet. Now that they've been on raw for 2 months that tartar is gone and Leila's teeth are beautiful. Sadie's still has tartar as there is much more accumulation on her teeth than there was on Leila's, but her teeth are improving as well. I am confident in a couple more months Sadie's teeth will be looking great as well. |
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| bailysmom | Nov 8 2008, 08:34 AM Post #3 |
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maybe i should start to look into raw diet too. i want to since months but never really get around to do it... $400 seems a bit expensive to me. it's gonna be $150 for us here and that includes all the bloodwork they have to do ahead. |
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| pawsx12 | Nov 10 2008, 10:35 AM Post #4 |
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My dogs are 4, 3, and two and have great teeth They eat both soft, and dry food, and get alot of chewies to clean teeth and they love raw vegetables so maybe that helps too, but a cleaning here is close to 400 as well, I've had friends who have had it done on their dogs. |
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| lolly | Nov 17 2008, 02:36 AM Post #5 |
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We feed a raw diet including raw chicken necks and wings and they naturally clean Timmy's teeth - his teeth at almost one year of age are immaculate (and his breath is lovely too!). I know I can be a little "preachy" on the whole raw food diet thing  - but it really does work! I figure that dog food (canned and biscuit form) is quite processed, and I know how my body feels when I eat too much processed food.We aim to feed a raw chicken neck or two (depending on size) most nights for dinner. A raw meaty bone like a nice big lamb shank trimmed back to bone works wonders too! |
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| pawsx12 | Nov 18 2008, 08:18 PM Post #6 |
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Lolly I'm curious about the chicken. I've always been told never give your dog chicken the bones splinter and can puncture your dogs intestine? It sounds like you are feeding raw not cooked chicken is that why its safe? |
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| Ashlee | Nov 19 2008, 12:35 AM Post #7 |
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Yes, I feed raw chicken bones as well, raw bones do not splinter, but you should never feed them cooked bones |
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| lolly | Nov 19 2008, 04:38 AM Post #8 |
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Yep - never, ever cooked - always raw. And it really is fabulous! Ok, it's kinda gross to hear the crunching and munching of raw bone but it has literally changed our lives! Timmy's the most!  He lives in an apartment and comes to work with us at our office each day so most of his toileting is done on one of these - Pet Toilet We find his poops are firm and dry and he only does two a day (the texture of them means his anal glands are cleared naturally). Plus because his body is effectively absorbing so much nutrient and fluid from the raw diet he does number ones less - all in all far less cleaning up!  On dry food he drank, and drank and drank! And so he peed, and peed and peed! With wet (canned food) his poops were mushy and sticky. Not fun to pick up off artificial grass let me tell you!
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| pawsx12 | Nov 19 2008, 09:18 PM Post #9 |
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I think I'll look at that raw diet, can anyone recommend a good website for me to do some research and get ideas on the types of food fed, my dogs are okay with what they get but I know they would be much happier on the raw. I thought about it awhile back with all the dog food recalls, but mine was never one that was recalled and once the hubbub died down I just forgot about it but this sounds like it is way healthier. |
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| Ashlee | Nov 20 2008, 01:30 AM Post #10 |
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A good place to look is the raw forum on dogster. In there they have a thread called "so you're interested in starting raw" or something similar to that and there is a lot of information in that thread |
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| lolly | Dec 15 2008, 05:16 PM Post #11 |
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If you google Dr Billinghurst and BARF diet you should get some good results! Let us know how you go!
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