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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 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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: 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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: Afterthought:  Our vet says that often cats who vomit as described wind up : in later life with irritable bowel disease.  Alex seemed to do so, and was : treated with a steroidal medication that unmasked his latent diabetes. : Since being on insulin twice daily, he vomits less frequently but still : enough that the kittens watch him like a hawk, hoping for leftovers.  By : "less frequently," I mean instead of vomiting up the morning and evening : feed every day, he vomits only 2 or 3 times a week. Wow…that’s a lot of vomiting.  One of our cats had a problem with his teeth, (he had sores on his gums), and the vets told us to keep them out of the bathroom, because, he could be licking the bathtub after we shower (both of our cats did this), and that the residual soap could be causing the sores. Well guess what?  His sores EVENTUALLY went away, and both cats quit vomiting nearly as often as they had.  It seems the soap was irritating their intestines.  Anyway, I think the cats vomit about once every one to two weeks now, instead of 3 or 4 times a week.  Stimpy the skinny kitty has also gained weight so that she’s in the normal range (being spayed also helped with that). So our bathroom door is kept closed when no one is in it, and the cats are pretty much never allowed in there. Cathy Weeks

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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.

But I’ve known cats that have eaten dry food their whole lives and still have tartar buildup enough to need their teeth cleaned, so I don’t think dry food totally prevents tartar. Maybe, as some have suggested, it’s because some cats don’t chew their food very much, though. -yngver (to reply, change initial "i" to "y")

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Some cats chew, and some cats don’t.  But dry food not chewed wouldn’t leave much gunk on the teeth.  

It’s not the food that leaves gunk on the teeth.  It’s plaque buildup that’s the problem.  The same thing that humans go to the dentist to have removed.  The point is that dry food, IF CHEWED, is supposed to help remove the plaque buildup.  The problem is that they are swallowing it whole which doesn’t help remove anything.  :-) AL  =^..^=

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I have both my cats on Purina Special Care and only occasionally hear a crunch.  So I can’t see that it would be any better for cleaning their their teeth.

I am pretty sure that I read a vetrinarian quoted saying that it is a longstanding myth that dry cat food cleans cats’ teeth. -yngver (to reply, change initial "i" to "y")

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You asked whether anyone else had noticed cats not chewing Hill’s Science Diet.  We have 5 cats; some of them chew (you can hear them going crunch-crunch-crunch) but one in particular does not.   Since kittenhood — and he’s now 12 — Alex has bolted his food and then vomited it up; the pellets are almost totally intact and the whole thing emerges like an ungainly snake about 3/4 inch in diameter and 4 to 6 or even 8 inches in length.  At least it’s easy to clean up!  And our two newest kittens have eliminated that task by recycling Alex’s thrown-up meals (disgusting but true). Oddly, Alex manages to get enough nutrition that, even on the feline maintenance light, he’s overweight. With respect to the helpfulness of dry food (vs. canned) for dental health, I do know that the dry food is allegedly preferable.  Alex has gum disease, which might however be akin to the problems that human bullimics experience; but so does Patches, who’s a year older and also bolts her food.  Both of them tend to accumulate large amounts of tartar, need to have their teeth professionally cleaned at least once a year, and have experienced some tooth loss due to gum disease.  Jenna, on the other hand, who crunches every tiny morsel, has had no tooth or gum problems at all. Afterthought:  Our vet says that often cats who vomit as described wind up in later life with irritable bowel disease.  Alex seemed to do so, and was treated with a steroidal medication that unmasked his latent diabetes. Since being on insulin twice daily, he vomits less frequently but still enough that the kittens watch him like a hawk, hoping for leftovers.  By "less frequently," I mean instead of vomiting up the morning and evening feed every day, he vomits only 2 or 3 times a week.

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Anybody else noticed this lack of chewing dry food?

Yep.  Gulp, gulp, gulp is all you hear at my house.  Every once in a while Missie will shake one to break its neck (I guess that’s what she is thinking…) and then crunch it a few times but usually she just gulps them down. AL  =^..^=

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I have both my cats on Purina Special Care and only occasionally hear a crunch.  So I can’t see that it would be any better for cleaning their their teeth. Barb

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You know, the dry food is better for their teeth theory has always made sense to me, so I use it for all 4 of my cats.  But, lately, I’ve noticed that they don’t even chew it.  We use Hilll’s SD, which has really small pellets, and my cats lap it up and just swallow it whole.  I can’t see how that is helping their teeth. They do really well on the food we’re using, and all are very healthy, so I’m loath to change.  But IAMS and other brands have larger crunchies, which I think would be better.  When I give them crunchy treates (they like a cheap catfood called Cozy Kitten ,which I keep in a jar as "goodies"), they chew them up.  These are quite large sized crunchies. Anybody else noticed this lack of chewing dry food? Colette

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You know, the dry food is better for their teeth theory has always made sense to me, so I use it for all 4 of my cats.  But, lately, I’ve noticed that they don’t even chew it.  We use Hilll’s SD, which has really small pellets, and my cats lap it up and just swallow it whole.  I can’t see how that is helping their teeth.

Some cats chew, and some cats don’t.  But dry food not chewed wouldn’t leave much gunk on the teeth.  Gideon has always chewed his food, but Lemieux never did until recently (he’s seven) and I can’t imagine why he suddenly started chewing his food. (Mine are both on SD Senior dry) —                 "There’s a seeker born every minute."

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You know, the dry food is better for their teeth theory has always made sense to me, so I use it for all 4 of my cats.  But, lately, I’ve noticed that they don’t even chew it.  We use Hilll’s SD, which has really small pellets, and my cats lap it up and just swallow it whole.  I can’t see how that is helping their teeth.

Polly complains (meeeeeeowwwwwwww] about my recent decision to drop canned food from her diet, then goes to food dish and crunches the dry food. For treats I give her Nature’s Receipe Tarter Control chicken or lamb. Polly’s vet gives cats Pounce (my guess is they get it free from manufacturer). I had her on canned, once a day, for the extra calories she was under weight (from being born on a farm). I think she needs the extra calories anymore. So its back to dry food alone. She’s not happy, but she’ll get over it. Stuart Johnson email me) Stuart’s Cats http://incolor.inetnebr.com/stuart/cats.htm Vaccinate Your Cat campaign http://incolor.inetnebr.com/stuart/vaccinate.htm "He who will not feed the cats, must feed the mice and rats" — German proverb Polly: DL B+O+W+S H .08 X L- W- C– I+++ T+++ A++ E— H+ S V+ F Q P B- PA- PL-

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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 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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: 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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: Afterthought:  Our vet says that often cats who vomit as described wind up : in later life with irritable bowel disease.  Alex seemed to do so, and was : treated with a steroidal medication that unmasked his latent diabetes. : Since being on insulin twice daily, he vomits less frequently but still : enough that the kittens watch him like a hawk, hoping for leftovers.  By : "less frequently," I mean instead of vomiting up the morning and evening : feed every day, he vomits only 2 or 3 times a week. Wow…that’s a lot of vomiting.  One of our cats had a problem with his teeth, (he had sores on his gums), and the vets told us to keep them out of the bathroom, because, he could be licking the bathtub after we shower (both of our cats did this), and that the residual soap could be causing the sores. Well guess what?  His sores EVENTUALLY went away, and both cats quit vomiting nearly as often as they had.  It seems the soap was irritating their intestines.  Anyway, I think the cats vomit about once every one to two weeks now, instead of 3 or 4 times a week.  Stimpy the skinny kitty has also gained weight so that she’s in the normal range (being spayed also helped with that). So our bathroom door is kept closed when no one is in it, and the cats are pretty much never allowed in there. Cathy Weeks

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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.

But I’ve known cats that have eaten dry food their whole lives and still have tartar buildup enough to need their teeth cleaned, so I don’t think dry food totally prevents tartar. Maybe, as some have suggested, it’s because some cats don’t chew their food very much, though. -yngver (to reply, change initial "i" to "y")

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Some cats chew, and some cats don’t.  But dry food not chewed wouldn’t leave much gunk on the teeth.  

It’s not the food that leaves gunk on the teeth.  It’s plaque buildup that’s the problem.  The same thing that humans go to the dentist to have removed.  The point is that dry food, IF CHEWED, is supposed to help remove the plaque buildup.  The problem is that they are swallowing it whole which doesn’t help remove anything.  :-) AL  =^..^=

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I have both my cats on Purina Special Care and only occasionally hear a crunch.  So I can’t see that it would be any better for cleaning their their teeth.

I am pretty sure that I read a vetrinarian quoted saying that it is a longstanding myth that dry cat food cleans cats’ teeth. -yngver (to reply, change initial "i" to "y")

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You asked whether anyone else had noticed cats not chewing Hill’s Science Diet.  We have 5 cats; some of them chew (you can hear them going crunch-crunch-crunch) but one in particular does not.   Since kittenhood — and he’s now 12 — Alex has bolted his food and then vomited it up; the pellets are almost totally intact and the whole thing emerges like an ungainly snake about 3/4 inch in diameter and 4 to 6 or even 8 inches in length.  At least it’s easy to clean up!  And our two newest kittens have eliminated that task by recycling Alex’s thrown-up meals (disgusting but true). Oddly, Alex manages to get enough nutrition that, even on the feline maintenance light, he’s overweight. With respect to the helpfulness of dry food (vs. canned) for dental health, I do know that the dry food is allegedly preferable.  Alex has gum disease, which might however be akin to the problems that human bullimics experience; but so does Patches, who’s a year older and also bolts her food.  Both of them tend to accumulate large amounts of tartar, need to have their teeth professionally cleaned at least once a year, and have experienced some tooth loss due to gum disease.  Jenna, on the other hand, who crunches every tiny morsel, has had no tooth or gum problems at all. Afterthought:  Our vet says that often cats who vomit as described wind up in later life with irritable bowel disease.  Alex seemed to do so, and was treated with a steroidal medication that unmasked his latent diabetes. Since being on insulin twice daily, he vomits less frequently but still enough that the kittens watch him like a hawk, hoping for leftovers.  By "less frequently," I mean instead of vomiting up the morning and evening feed every day, he vomits only 2 or 3 times a week.

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Anybody else noticed this lack of chewing dry food?

Yep.  Gulp, gulp, gulp is all you hear at my house.  Every once in a while Missie will shake one to break its neck (I guess that’s what she is thinking…) and then crunch it a few times but usually she just gulps them down. AL  =^..^=

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I have both my cats on Purina Special Care and only occasionally hear a crunch.  So I can’t see that it would be any better for cleaning their their teeth. Barb

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You know, the dry food is better for their teeth theory has always made sense to me, so I use it for all 4 of my cats.  But, lately, I’ve noticed that they don’t even chew it.  We use Hilll’s SD, which has really small pellets, and my cats lap it up and just swallow it whole.  I can’t see how that is helping their teeth. They do really well on the food we’re using, and all are very healthy, so I’m loath to change.  But IAMS and other brands have larger crunchies, which I think would be better.  When I give them crunchy treates (they like a cheap catfood called Cozy Kitten ,which I keep in a jar as "goodies"), they chew them up.  These are quite large sized crunchies. Anybody else noticed this lack of chewing dry food? Colette

Response:

You know, the dry food is better for their teeth theory has always made sense to me, so I use it for all 4 of my cats.  But, lately, I’ve noticed that they don’t even chew it.  We use Hilll’s SD, which has really small pellets, and my cats lap it up and just swallow it whole.  I can’t see how that is helping their teeth.

Some cats chew, and some cats don’t.  But dry food not chewed wouldn’t leave much gunk on the teeth.  Gideon has always chewed his food, but Lemieux never did until recently (he’s seven) and I can’t imagine why he suddenly started chewing his food. (Mine are both on SD Senior dry) —                 "There’s a seeker born every minute."

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You know, the dry food is better for their teeth theory has always made sense to me, so I use it for all 4 of my cats.  But, lately, I’ve noticed that they don’t even chew it.  We use Hilll’s SD, which has really small pellets, and my cats lap it up and just swallow it whole.  I can’t see how that is helping their teeth.

Polly complains (meeeeeeowwwwwwww] about my recent decision to drop canned food from her diet, then goes to food dish and crunches the dry food. For treats I give her Nature’s Receipe Tarter Control chicken or lamb. Polly’s vet gives cats Pounce (my guess is they get it free from manufacturer). I had her on canned, once a day, for the extra calories she was under weight (from being born on a farm). I think she needs the extra calories anymore. So its back to dry food alone. She’s not happy, but she’ll get over it. Stuart Johnson email me) Stuart’s Cats http://incolor.inetnebr.com/stuart/cats.htm Vaccinate Your Cat campaign http://incolor.inetnebr.com/stuart/vaccinate.htm "He who will not feed the cats, must feed the mice and rats" — German proverb Polly: DL B+O+W+S H .08 X L- W- C– I+++ T+++ A++ E— H+ S V+ F Q P B- PA- PL-

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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 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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: 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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: Afterthought:  Our vet says that often cats who vomit as described wind up : in later life with irritable bowel disease.  Alex seemed to do so, and was : treated with a steroidal medication that unmasked his latent diabetes. : Since being on insulin twice daily, he vomits less frequently but still : enough that the kittens watch him like a hawk, hoping for leftovers.  By : "less frequently," I mean instead of vomiting up the morning and evening : feed every day, he vomits only 2 or 3 times a week. Wow…that’s a lot of vomiting.  One of our cats had a problem with his teeth, (he had sores on his gums), and the vets told us to keep them out of the bathroom, because, he could be licking the bathtub after we shower (both of our cats did this), and that the residual soap could be causing the sores. Well guess what?  His sores EVENTUALLY went away, and both cats quit vomiting nearly as often as they had.  It seems the soap was irritating their intestines.  Anyway, I think the cats vomit about once every one to two weeks now, instead of 3 or 4 times a week.  Stimpy the skinny kitty has also gained weight so that she’s in the normal range (being spayed also helped with that). So our bathroom door is kept closed when no one is in it, and the cats are pretty much never allowed in there. Cathy Weeks

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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.

But I’ve known cats that have eaten dry food their whole lives and still have tartar buildup enough to need their teeth cleaned, so I don’t think dry food totally prevents tartar. Maybe, as some have suggested, it’s because some cats don’t chew their food very much, though. -yngver (to reply, change initial "i" to "y")

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Some cats chew, and some cats don’t.  But dry food not chewed wouldn’t leave much gunk on the teeth.  

It’s not the food that leaves gunk on the teeth.  It’s plaque buildup that’s the problem.  The same thing that humans go to the dentist to have removed.  The point is that dry food, IF CHEWED, is supposed to help remove the plaque buildup.  The problem is that they are swallowing it whole which doesn’t help remove anything.  :-) AL  =^..^=

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I have both my cats on Purina Special Care and only occasionally hear a crunch.  So I can’t see that it would be any better for cleaning their their teeth.

I am pretty sure that I read a vetrinarian quoted saying that it is a longstanding myth that dry cat food cleans cats’ teeth. -yngver (to reply, change initial "i" to "y")

Response:

You asked whether anyone else had noticed cats not chewing Hill’s Science Diet.  We have 5 cats; some of them chew (you can hear them going crunch-crunch-crunch) but one in particular does not.   Since kittenhood — and he’s now 12 — Alex has bolted his food and then vomited it up; the pellets are almost totally intact and the whole thing emerges like an ungainly snake about 3/4 inch in diameter and 4 to 6 or even 8 inches in length.  At least it’s easy to clean up!  And our two newest kittens have eliminated that task by recycling Alex’s thrown-up meals (disgusting but true). Oddly, Alex manages to get enough nutrition that, even on the feline maintenance light, he’s overweight. With respect to the helpfulness of dry food (vs. canned) for dental health, I do know that the dry food is allegedly preferable.  Alex has gum disease, which might however be akin to the problems that human bullimics experience; but so does Patches, who’s a year older and also bolts her food.  Both of them tend to accumulate large amounts of tartar, need to have their teeth professionally cleaned at least once a year, and have experienced some tooth loss due to gum disease.  Jenna, on the other hand, who crunches every tiny morsel, has had no tooth or gum problems at all. Afterthought:  Our vet says that often cats who vomit as described wind up in later life with irritable bowel disease.  Alex seemed to do so, and was treated with a steroidal medication that unmasked his latent diabetes. Since being on insulin twice daily, he vomits less frequently but still enough that the kittens watch him like a hawk, hoping for leftovers.  By "less frequently," I mean instead of vomiting up the morning and evening feed every day, he vomits only 2 or 3 times a week.

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Anybody else noticed this lack of chewing dry food?

Yep.  Gulp, gulp, gulp is all you hear at my house.  Every once in a while Missie will shake one to break its neck (I guess that’s what she is thinking…) and then crunch it a few times but usually she just gulps them down. AL  =^..^=

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I have both my cats on Purina Special Care and only occasionally hear a crunch.  So I can’t see that it would be any better for cleaning their their teeth. Barb

Response:

You know, the dry food is better for their teeth theory has always made sense to me, so I use it for all 4 of my cats.  But, lately, I’ve noticed that they don’t even chew it.  We use Hilll’s SD, which has really small pellets, and my cats lap it up and just swallow it whole.  I can’t see how that is helping their teeth. They do really well on the food we’re using, and all are very healthy, so I’m loath to change.  But IAMS and other brands have larger crunchies, which I think would be better.  When I give them crunchy treates (they like a cheap catfood called Cozy Kitten ,which I keep in a jar as "goodies"), they chew them up.  These are quite large sized crunchies. Anybody else noticed this lack of chewing dry food? Colette

Response:

You know, the dry food is better for their teeth theory has always made sense to me, so I use it for all 4 of my cats.  But, lately, I’ve noticed that they don’t even chew it.  We use Hilll’s SD, which has really small pellets, and my cats lap it up and just swallow it whole.  I can’t see how that is helping their teeth.

Some cats chew, and some cats don’t.  But dry food not chewed wouldn’t leave much gunk on the teeth.  Gideon has always chewed his food, but Lemieux never did until recently (he’s seven) and I can’t imagine why he suddenly started chewing his food. (Mine are both on SD Senior dry) —                 "There’s a seeker born every minute."

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You know, the dry food is better for their teeth theory has always made sense to me, so I use it for all 4 of my cats.  But, lately, I’ve noticed that they don’t even chew it.  We use Hilll’s SD, which has really small pellets, and my cats lap it up and just swallow it whole.  I can’t see how that is helping their teeth.

Polly complains (meeeeeeowwwwwwww] about my recent decision to drop canned food from her diet, then goes to food dish and crunches the dry food. For treats I give her Nature’s Receipe Tarter Control chicken or lamb. Polly’s vet gives cats Pounce (my guess is they get it free from manufacturer). I had her on canned, once a day, for the extra calories she was under weight (from being born on a farm). I think she needs the extra calories anymore. So its back to dry food alone. She’s not happy, but she’ll get over it. Stuart Johnson email me) Stuart’s Cats http://incolor.inetnebr.com/stuart/cats.htm Vaccinate Your Cat campaign http://incolor.inetnebr.com/stuart/vaccinate.htm "He who will not feed the cats, must feed the mice and rats" — German proverb Polly: DL B+O+W+S H .08 X L- W- C– I+++ T+++ A++ E— H+ S V+ F Q P B- PA- PL-

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