I tried searching again and didn't find anything on this. A couple days I ago I started Bruno on Honest Kitchen. He loved it. As a matter of fact the next morning when I gave him his regular kibble he looked at the food then looked at me then looked at his food as if to say "are you kidding, where's the stuff you gave me last night" - I'm just trying to feed through the rest of the kibble. With that said I'm concerned about the crunch factor. I've not done enough research on the raw and feeding RMB yet to feel comfortable making that leap. So will the consistency of Honest Kitchen be a detriment to his teeth if there is no crunching involved? I think I've read that the basted bones in the store are not the best so what can I give in addition for dental health?
I feed HK in addition RMB's for the added nutrition, chewing/teeth cleaning factors as well as the dogs satisfaction.
It is a great food, and my dogs love it as well. I started to use it when we were traveling and have gotten hooked on it for obvious reasons.
I can understand how you feel with the RMB's as it seems like a scary leap to take. I can assure you that many people feel this way. Keep reading, and when you are ready, know that dogs are not only meant to eat this way, they have the perfect teeth and digestive system to handle them.
You are right that the basted bones from the pet store are not optimal. Maybe you could start with a beef marrow bone ( as a recreational bone) and see how that goes. Chicken bones are really very soft and easy for them to chew, so that is a good one to try when you are ready.
Gorgeous boy btw!!!
Joyce, yes he is pretty good lookin isn't he? The beef marrow bone is what or I guess where do I get? I remember way back growing up my dad used to go to like the Kroger meat dept and ask for bones for our 2 GSD's we had but there was not much meat on them.
I started out with the marrow bones just to get my feet wet when I started thinking about going raw. I first found them at Whole Foods and then started to see them in Kroger as beef soup bones.
Check and see if your grocery store carries them. There really isn't much if any meat, but they like the marrow and it is good for them to chew on.
One of the easier RMB's are chicken necks and backs, because they can chew them up so easy, also there is some cartilage in there which is really soft. The backs are nice because most of the time there is some organ meat inside the back, so that is an extra bonus.
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I have not found it to be the case with soft diets that teeth become a mess faster than dogs who eat kibble. I have found it to be the case for dogs who eat a terrible diet, a diet with sugars and people food, and never have their teeth looked at.
I've always taken the chewing the tartar off with a grain of salt. After all how many of us eat grape nuts to clean our teeth?
Ok I went and got him a bone from Kroger. Its huge a big femur bone says soup bone. Is this big thing for one sitting? After he chews on it for a while can it be put back in the refridgerator or is it just done?
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Why don't you try adding some raw meat to the Honest Kitchen...doesn't have to be bones if you aren't quite ready to try that. You could add a chicken breast, a hunk of beef, some ground turkey...whatever, just keep it simple at first.
RE: the teeth...my girls have pearly whites and do not eat whole bones...I only feed ground RMBs. Guess it depends...
I've always taken the chewing the tartar off with a grain of salt. After all how many of us eat grape nuts to clean our teeth?
I beleive you are right.
From what I have learned and observed, a big factor for the cleaning of the teeth is not necessarily the crunch (although it probably helps a little but really the digestive enzymes that is in the saliva. That is where the digestion starts, and raw fed dogs start to get those more and more as their body becomes accustomed to digesting raw food in general. The enzymes help to eat away at the tarter.
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