Anyone else feed an all RAW diet?

**Giselle** · 04-01-2006, 02:35 AM

(These are not my pictures, please do not use them!)
A 6-year-old-ish retired racing Greyhound on a kibble diet:

The same dog after one raw recreational bone:

Need I say more? This is after THREE hours. If a single rec bone can make so much difference in three hours, can you imagine the teeth of a dog fed raw its whole life? A picture is literally a thousand words.

**.sarah** · 04-01-2006, 02:42 AM

OH MY GOD

That is an incredible difference

**Tollers-n-Dobes** · 04-01-2006, 02:44 AM

That's disgusting! I can't believe 3 hours made such a huge difference

Although, I must say that I personally have never seen a kibble fed dog's teeth ever look that bad.....

**k9krazee** · 04-01-2006, 10:24 AM

Wow! What a difference!!! That is amazing.

Originally Posted by Orangutango

Although, I must say that I personally have never seen a kibble fed dog's teeth ever look that bad.....

Yeah, same here, even my (almost) 10 year old Rottie has better teeth than that 6 year old had!!

**cali** · 04-01-2006, 12:28 PM

really? I have seen a LOT of kibble fed dogs with teeth that bad.

I like this pic of Shadow, the pic was taken when shadow was just about 9 years old, 4 years on kibble and 4 years on raw

I was looking at this pic, and it struck me how white her teeth are for her age lol

and look at Happys teeth..she has the dirtiest teeth out of all my dogs because she wont do any recriational chewing whatsoever, she wont even eat her dinner if she cant break the bone with one bite.

it was funny, we are so used to how much the rest of the dogs teeth sparkle, that we look at happys and go.."I wonder if something is wrong with her teeth?" so we take her to the vet and the vet goes "WOW these are some of the best teeth I have seen" lol

**K9soul** · 04-01-2006, 12:45 PM

I do hope to feed raw someday when I have the freezer for it and the finances to do it right. For now mine are on Innova EVO but they also get lots of chews, (bones and bully sticks) and "extras" like eggs, cheese, fresh meat at times, etc. and I brush their teeth regularly, so they look very good, though I have no doubt they'd be even whiter and stronger if they had been fed raw since the beginning.

This is the best pic I have that shows Tasha's teefers. She is 7.

By the way, I appreciate all the info in this thread!

**Giselle** · 04-01-2006, 06:01 PM

I'm pretty sure it's an ex-racer thing. Many retired racers are supposedly genetically predisposed to bad teeth and, hence, bad breath. I know one 4 year old ex-racer whose teeth look like they've been around since dinosaurs walked the earth LOL. Even though she's on a kibble diet, she receives annual cleanings, frequent chews (it was her owner who introduced me to bully sticks and greenies), daily add-ins and supplements (her owner also shows dogs so she likes to supplement all her dogs), and frequent tooth brushing. Still, her owner claims her breath is still rather rancid and they just doesn't look her age. I can honestly attest, however, that raw bones do work wonders for dogs. Giselle came to me with moderate plaque that could be relatively easy to remove with a tooth brush. I stopped brushing due to laziness and tossed her a rec bone every now and then. After a couple weeks on raw bones, her pearly whites shone through and there is NO sign of plaque whatsoever.

(K9Soul, Tasha's teeth are perfect! I wish Lucky's looked like that!)