How are your dog’s teeth? February is Pet Dental Health Month, which makes it a perfect time to evaluate the canine teeth in your household. Many veterinarians even offer discounts on teeth cleaning and other pet dental services this month if you need them.
As they are with humans, teeth are super important for your pup. Bad teeth can not only cause trouble in a dog’s mouth, but in their overall health! At the yearly exams, your vet should be checking out your pup’s teeth. There is a dental score from zero to four, with zero being a young puppy. All three of us are scoring right around one which is really good and means we don’t need to have our teeth cleaned. How do we keep our teeth in tip top shape?
Brush Your Dog’s Teeth
We all get our teeth brushed every night before bed. Mom starts this when we are tiny puppies so we learn to love it and we actually wait for it each night when we go to bed.
PlaqueOff Powder
For a couple years now, Mom has been adding PlaqueOff to our breakfast meal. It is an all natural food supplement that naturally helps oral health for dogs and cats with a specially selected algae harvested in the North Atlantic from specific areas. PlaqueOff Powder is free from additives and artificial preservatives and contains no gluten or added sugar.
Mom sprinkles 2 heaping scoops on our breakfast every morning. We all love it and eat it right down. Even when we were eating kibble, we would lick it all out of our bowls. It is tasty and helps keep our teeth in good repair.
Healthy Chews
Dog’s teeth and dogs in general love a good chew. Almost every night Mom gives us each something mighty yummy to chew on. Good bones and chews help to scrape plaque and tartar off the teeth. There are all sorts of dental chews on the market, but we like the natural, single ingredient ones.
As with everything teeth bite into there is always a risk of a broken tooth. So far we have not had that happen, but we are not super aggressive chewers. We love our marrow bones, beef esophagus, bully sticks, green tripe sticks and other tasty delights. My canine teeth are slightly warn down on their tips from chewing bones, but they still work fine for me and it beats having to have my teeth cleaned.
How are your dog’s teeth? Make sure and have them checked out and if they need a cleaning, get them cleaned and then start on a really good dental routine! Good teeth are something to be very thankful for!
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our teeth are not as perfect as the mama wants them, it seems we have to see da vet place this year…. sigh…
Great post. Love the teefies photo!! A good reminder about our teeth — mom agrees with you!! have a good day your friend Lilly
Teeth are super important for eating and for overall health!
OMDs I wish my teeth were as white as yours. My problem is Coffee…I love it…and of course age. LOL
I am an avid tooth brusher. Even when I was working I brushed me teeth after lunch.
Hugs cecilia
Brushing teeth is a great habit. Everyone gets some stains on their teeth, but stains don’t ruin the teeth.
It’s obvious your Mom takes such good care of your teeth and that’s a wonderful thing girls. Thanks for joining our Thankful Thursday Blog Hop!
Yes, she does her best to keep them nice so we don’t need anesthesia and all for a cleaning.
Keeping our babies teeth clean is so important to their good health. Our Angel Little Bit would stand patiently while dad brushed her teeth every morning. She was such a good girl and she was almost 13 when we went to the bridge and her teeth were white and her breath smelled good. Great post.
Have a fabulous Thankful Thursday. Scritches all around and my best to your smart mom. ♥
That is wonderful. No one likes to have bad teeth and dogs can easily learn to have their teeth brushed.
where do you get Plaque Off powder? Since I’m older, I need all the stuff I can get.
Chablis
We order it on Amazon but I think Chewy might have it too.
Wowee- what gorgeous teeth! Enjoy your treats!
Thank you. We love to have sparkling white teeth.
Nice teeth girls!! Rosy and Sunny don’t mind getting their teeth brushed, but poor Jakey has always been afraid of the toothbrush.
xoxo,
Rosy,Sunny and Jakey
Boys, right? Good job brushing you two girls.
What gorgeous teeth you have!
Thank you. We all hope to have nice healthy teeth for our whole lives.
We will be checking out this plaque off powder. Mom doesn’t brush my teefs. She can’t even get me to open my mouth to have any looks.
Oh dear. We start at 9 weeks old, so we are used to it and we sit and wait for our turn to get them brushed. PlaqueOff works really well to help out too. It isn’t cheap, but for one dog it would last for a long time.
Coda, Little Girl’s dog and my “granddog” gets her teeth looked at yearly at the vet, and hers are good.
Please also keep your cat brothers in mind, their teeth are also important. We had a cat at the shelter named Agave. He was often quite aggressive, then one day someone noticed that his breath was awful. He was taken to the vet and had two teeth that needed to be pulled. Once that was done, all his aggression stopped and he became a wonderful cat. Yes, pets with hurting teeth can be mean, and i don’t blame them, tooth pain is awful.
The cats teeth are not as good as our dog teeth, but they also get checked at the vet and they have had them cleaned at some point. Teeth are small but they can make a big difference if they are not in good shape.