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Boy, that sounds really familiar!! Thought I was reading about my own cat there for a minute… Carla in FL – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – We once had a cat who would gulp down such treats. She loved the Pounce treats but she just swallowed them whole. So much for tartar control…

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Our cat does not have tartar as a result of eating dry food.

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Our cat does not have tartar as a result of eating dry food.

Sounds good!  Out of my 4 cats, 2 get tartar and need regular cleaning, and 2 don’t, and they all eat SD Light.  The one who never chews his pellets has never needed teeth cleaning, so go figure!   My vet says, some cats get tartar problems, some don’t.  I guess you got fortunate. Colette

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I give my two cats a raw chicken wing occasionally as I was told  by a vet that chewing on the raw chicken skin helps clean their teeth. I don’t worry about the small bones as I have seen them both munching down mice, ( we back onto farm land,) and they have much smaller bones. Marilyn

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I give my two cats a raw chicken wing occasionally as I was told  by a vet that chewing on the raw chicken skin helps clean their teeth. I don’t worry about the small bones as I have seen them both munching down mice, ( we back onto farm land,) and they have much smaller bones. Marilyn

It’s not the bone size that the vets are concerned about- it’s the fact that chicken bones splinter, and piece might act as a sliver in part of your pet’s esophagus or other internal bit. Same thing with some pork bones. Be careful with your children. -georg non ani sunt permittendi

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It’s not the bone size that the vets are concerned about- it’s the fact that chicken bones splinter, and piece might act as a sliver in part of your pet’s esophagus or other internal bit. Same thing with some pork bones. Be careful with your children.

I was told by a vet that it’s only dogs that you should be concerned about giving chicken bones to since cats can almost pulverize the bones. — Bev.

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I was told by a vet that it’s only dogs that you should be concerned about giving chicken bones to since cats can almost pulverize the bones.

I think the key word here is ‘CAN’ almost pulverize.  As discussed in a thread about dry food and not having to clean their teeth we deduced that they tend to gulp their food or give them one or two quick crunches before it goes down the hatch.  I’d hate to have my cat (or any cat) choke to death in front of my eyes. I definetly would not give dogs OR cats chicken bones since they can splinter.  It’s not worth the risk to me.    :-( AL  =^..^=

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: Anybody else noticed this lack of chewing dry food?

Not I.  I can hear my cats crunching away whatever kind of dry food  I give them – that is, except for the kinds they won’t eat at all. <g Joy

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: Anybody else noticed this lack of chewing dry food? : Colette I feed Iams, ans they chew that – you’re right it has bigger pellets which probably makes them chew. — Tina Noyes http://www.peak.uoguelph.ca/peaksters/tina/

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My vet recommends both canine and feline Hill’s Prescription TD as tartar-scraping snax because the stuff "keeps its matrix" (whatever that means).  Seems to work. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – : Anybody else noticed this lack of chewing dry food? Not I.  I can hear my cats crunching away whatever kind of dry food  I give them – that is, except for the kinds they won’t eat at all. <g Joy

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Our cat (Smoky) is on a strict diet of Sheba. The canned varieties.  Can’t keep anything else down.  Vet said "If he likes it, it’s fine".  Then, last checkup, vet said that Smoky was getting a plaque/tartar buildup and suggested something crunchier. Recently, the good folks who put out the Pounce treats came out with a "tartar control" variety — crunchy.  The cat gets two of the crunchy ones every night at bedtime.  Not one, not one and a half — two entire pieces.  If we forget, he will impatiently remind us as we’re medicating the dogs (a whole other story).  He’s even climbed up to our shoulder (from the floor — ouch!) to insure he didn’t miss his goody.  If we try to shortchange him with partial pieces, he sits and stares with the "Of course there’s more coming!?" expression.  So partial pieces become daytime "special treats".  Oh, well. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – : Anybody else noticed this lack of chewing dry food? Not I.  I can hear my cats crunching away whatever kind of dry food  I give them – that is, except for the kinds they won’t eat at all. <g Joy

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Our cat (Smoky) is on a strict diet of Sheba. The canned varieties.  Can’t keep anything else down.  Vet said "If he likes it, it’s fine".  Then, last checkup, vet said that Smoky was getting a plaque/tartar buildup and suggested something crunchier. Recently, the good folks who put out the Pounce treats came out with a "tartar control" variety — crunchy.  The cat gets two of the crunchy ones every night at bedtime.  Not one, not one and a half — two entire pieces. If we forget, he will impatiently remind us as we’re medicating the dogs (a whole other story).  He’s even climbed up to our shoulder (from the floor — ouch!) to insure he didn’t miss his goody.  If we try to shortchange him with partial pieces, he sits and stares with the "Of course there’s more coming!?" expression.  So partial pieces become daytime "special treats".  Oh, well.

We once had a cat who would gulp down such treats. She loved the Pounce treats but she just swallowed them whole. So much for tartar control… : Anybody else noticed this lack of chewing dry food?

I don’t remember if she ate her dry food bits whole though. With wet food, she was a pig. Not I.  I can hear my cats crunching away whatever kind of dry food  I give them – that is, except for the kinds they won’t eat at all. <g Joy

                 ’               s~-^,–* .   Nathalie H

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