brushing your cat's teeth - Page 3

classicman · 02-12-2009, 08:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Cloud

Considering that poor teeth can shorten a cat's life considerably, it's worth it to pay some attention to it. You can have them professionally cleaned every couple of years--the vet has to anesthetize them to do it, though.

Yeh and we as the owners are expected to do it to them with the drugs. HA

Hoof Hearted · 02-12-2009, 10:42 PM

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Originally Posted by classicman

Yeh and we as the owners are expected to do it to them with[out] the drugs. HA

Yeah. I have a couple "chainsaws" that I have to keep a box of bandaids handy when I have to medicate them...and the vet wants me to purposely stick my fingers in their mouth? Um, I'd rather let the vet do that.
I also had a cat who lost all but her canine teeth and she did just fine on canned food twice a day and dry food to snack on whenever she wished. She maintained her weight just fine, the fat little butterball.

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Originally Posted by Shawnee123

You're not supposed to give dogs chicken bones because they splinter...do cats know this?

Cooked chicken bones splinter. Raw ones do not.
The small pieces a cat can gnaw off a chicken wing pass through the digestive tract just fine. Bones (raw) get sort of goo-ey and soft as the digestive juices work on them. The larger bones, the cat just gnaws along the bone to get the meat off.

Shawnee123 · 02-12-2009, 11:06 PM

OK...that makes sense.

But they'll still drag bones all over the house.

Hoof Hearted · 02-13-2009, 12:14 PM

I know. That [dragging the food around] is what makes me cringe and not try it...

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