I used to brush some of my dogs teeth, they didn't mind it at all.. actually I had one, several years ago that got ahold of the bottle of dog tooth paste (chicken flavored I think it was) and ate the whole thing LOL But now when I can get ahold of them, I like to give my dogs knuckle bones to chew on... tho they can be hard to get around here for some reason.... or if I have one that doesn't like to chew much, or if I am getting ready to go to a show I will just scale the teeth...