How to Clean Your Dogs Teeth Without Brushing

Top 5 Ways to Help My Dogs Teeth Naturally

How Often Should I Brush My Dogs Teeth?

There are many ways you can help your dog without brushing your dogs teeth. However, giving them a daily or weekly brush can always be helpful.

Lets talk food! Whole food and the right dietary choices can have a huge impact on overall oral health.

Our Top 5 Foods for Dental Health.

Raw Dog Food – A balanced raw dog food diet provides all of the important nutrients

Raw Meaty Bones – A raw meaty bone is natures tooth brush. The biting, chewing, and crunching on the bone, connective tissue and the cartilage scrapes off the plaque and tarter build up on your pets teeth. At the same time it massages the gums. What kind of bones should my dog eat? Turkey necks, Duck necks and duck feet are all good choices. Can Dogs Eat Bones

Bone Broth – Homemade bone broth can provide so many benefits. It provides wonderful nutrients, soothes the digestive track and provides a wonderful source of vitamins and minerals such as calcium, magnesium, and phosphorus, as well as collagen. Try our out our Duck Bone Broth Recipe

Celery – Celery stalks require a lot of chewing and can also act as a natural cleaner.

Apples and Pears – A crunchy sweet treat that has a high water content. Apples and Pears provide prebiotics that feed the probiotics in the gut.

Raw Goat Milk Kefir – A great way to keep the teeth strong and the probiotics help with the microbiome.

Keeping the gut healthy helps keep the teeth healthy. There is so much research on gut health and the importance of probiotics. Unfortunately most of us including our dogs have gut issues.

One of my favorite ways to help my dogs gut and teeth at the same time is brush their teeth with this awesome recipe.

Love Bugs Probiotic Dental Paste

It’s Super Easy

Small Dog (or Cat) – mix together 1tsp of coconut oil and 1/16 tsp of Love Bugs

Large Dog – you may need more, up to a tablespoon

Try not to make too much, but if you do, be sure to keep it in the fridge and use it within 12 hours to help the probiotics stay viable.

For the coconut oil, you don’t need to melt it. If the coconut oil is chunky, that’s honestly even better because it makes it easier to get a good amount on your finger. Once it’s well mixed together, take a small amount on your finger and gently massage in and around your animal’s teeth. You can even use a piece of cheese cloth or first aid gauze if you like for added texture. Remove from the jar the entire amount you need so that you do not put your finger back in and contaminate the paste.

While your in there, gently rub the teeth and all along the gum line (don’t neglect those gums!). Now, some dogs will tolerate this even if they don’t really like it. If you can, do it regularly and this will take some of the stress out of it. Just do your best. Do it as often as you can, again, very gently. For fearful or sensitive personalities or elderly animals, try doing just a ¼ of the mouth at a time to make it a fun experience. If you have the ability to get right in there, that’s best. However, if your animal is really fearful, for whatever reason, don’t force it. Some animals just can’t handle your hands in their mouth, whether from past experiences or just because they are adverse to the feeling. In this case, you can try coconut oil and Love Bugs popsicles – just add the recipe to an ice cube container and freeze. You may want to add some of your favorite bone broth for flavor. Or, just put a little Love Bugs in the water bowl. We don’t want to cause any more stress in our animals, and this takes the pressure off. The probiotics will still get to where they need to be! (adoredbeast.com)

WHY IS DENTAL HEALTH IMPROTANT FOR MY DOG?

Dental Health – Promoting dental health in your dog is an ongoing effort and will help with the plaque and tarter build up. Plaque and tarter build up can push the gums away from the teeth leading to gum inflammation, tooth decay and tooth loss.

Organ Health – Dental health has been connected to and increase risk of heart disease in dogs. The Liver and Kidney can also have negative issues due to dental disease.

The teeth and gums have a lot to do with our overall health. Feeding delicious raw dog food leads to a healthier mouth and a healthier smile.