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I get asked if I brush my dog's teeth pretty often and I just have to wonder what people let their dogs eat because no, I don't brush their teeth but I do control their food intake to mostly stuff I make myself.
My boy lost his tear stains when I switched him to a, "fancier" dog food.
Is that correct or a typo? I ask because my chihuahua mix has overactive tear ducts and gets "boogers" and brown stains around his eyes every now and then that need to be cleaned up. Pretty sure for him it's a genetic thing though, but maybe a diet change could help with that. Like switch from ground turkey to fish or change the vegetable mix up.
If they eat like they would eat im nature. You know chewing meat around hard bones, constantly grinding their teeth. Then it would be unnecessary. If you however just serve soft stuff or dog food there isn't enough chewing and calculus starts to form if you don't brush the teeth
Edit: this isn't something I have source for. Just my own experiences with dogs and also human teeth need brushing for the same reason, we don't eat what we were designed to eat. So it's quite easy to make assumption that this is true for dogs too. And indeed when we fed our dog raw meat chunks with bone in it our dogs calculus went away pretty well and pretty fast