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You can just gnaw on dog treats if you want. Like nobody is stopping you. My parents tried and failed many many years ago, but the sandy texture of the treats they bought was a major turnoff for me, so no need fam. If dentabones or whatever had been a thing back then I might have a different story…
Fun fact; most pet foods and treats are tested at some stage by humans for flavor, because animals can’t really give proper critique. So someone, somewhere, has probably already eaten them.
Username checks out…?
My understanding is that milk bones are basically cookies without sugar.
I haven’t tried those but the generic ones that were bbq flavor back in the 90s were made from flour and water and probably nothing else, and crumbled on bite into nasty wheat sand.
My friend would eat Milk Bones occasionally when we were kids.
I’m a very small sample size being one guy who works in a dog food factory. But we absolutely do not test our products on humans. All our meat products are marked not for human consumption.
The seasonings and what have you are often tested by the npd crowd but I can’t imagine a scenario where anyone would actually try the finished product.
The seasonings and what have you are often tested by the npd crowd
This is the “at some stage” portion, I assume (tho I don’t understand the lingo you are using tbh)
Dry foods are bland and flavorless kibbles without the flavor coating, often using the same meal for multiple lines, so you just test the coating. But other products don’t have that luxury, like wet foods and treats that have soft core or whatever.
Obviously nobody is consuming it as a diet, but they do test it :)
https://recipes.howstuffworks.com/food-facts/food-careers/food-taster3.htm
https://www.buzzfeed.com/stephenlaconte/i-just-found-out-that-dog-food-gets-taste-tested-by-humans
https://www.merieuxnutrisciences.com/na/sensory-and-consumer-testing-of-pet-food/
New product design.
What testing is done is that core temps are monitored, moisture levels checked and there’s micro testing for bacteria and what not. Its all also run through metal detectors at multiple stages throughout the process.
This should theoretically be safe for human consumption but all of the unprocessed meat is marked as cat 3 and isn’t fit for humans. A company would be opening themselves to liability if they were to make people test it.
In many places catfood and such is mandatory to be safe for human consumption.
Because people will buy it to eat when they can’t afford real food…
Real food is cheaper.
I dunno what to tell you. It’s been a thing since I worked a retail job as a kid and was warned to advise management if someone was buying “a lot” of cat food and seemed poorer than average. Found an article. It’s one of those things where there were PDAs about it in the 80s, there’s articles of it happening during the pandemic, but I’m not finding any scholarly articles.
Probably hard to get someone to admit to.
“real” food is cheaper, but also has to be cooked and can’t sit on a shelf for 15 years and still be edible.
This is why stuff like spam continues to be sold, it’s cheap and easy and lasts forever.
When someone talks about cat food the real alternative is food like SPAM. And SPAM IS cheaper than cat food. Buying cat food to eat is an expensive enterprise, thus the original point is false.
It’s called sugar free gum. Enjoy.
i find gum way too soft to have any significant cleaning effect, maybe when you first bite into it the crunchy shell does something minor, but it needs to be like 50% harder to feel effective.
A carrot works pretty well.
Bitch ain’t heard of spearmint gum?
That’s why I brush my teeth before having my bacon and eggs with coffee.
That’s why I brush my teeth before drinking my orange juice.
out of a metal tumbler 🤤
You gotta try brushing your teeth and then drinking chocolate milk. It’s delicious
…followed by chewing aluminum foil for iron.
I prefer Indium.
Leave your degraded self-loathing to yourself and don’t make us partake!
Psst, the real life hack is to drink tons of coke so that they all fall out and you can get a permanent artificial set installed as soon as possible
i really wish they made those chewing sticks for humans, chewing on a rubbery stick sounds amazing to my autistic mind
like that would instantly take me from middling tooth health to best teeth in the game, i’d be chewing those shits day in day out to the point that the dentist has to tell me to cut it down, not to mention how great it would be for jaw strength!
They actually do make those for people with sensory needs. They look like Lego’s and are on a lanyard
Please be conscientious if you choose to use a coping method like this. Some estimates put misophonia as prevalent as affecting 1 in 5 people. Your chewing on something to calm yourself down may be setting off full fight or flight in the person next to you.
Flight, they’re now my prey
We kinda do, we have the chewing sticks like mishwak
What is that?
It’s a stick
A small stick from the toothbrush tree (no kidding). You could also use other types of wood, like apple, pear or lemon tree. Or even licorice root.
Chewing on a stick is healthy for me?
chewing is generally healthy, we live in an age where most food is extremely soft compared to how it’s been for most of human history (how many people sit gnawing on bones?), so our jaws could use some exercise.
Those don’t do shit, it’s a scam
Veggiedent chews seem to work ok for tartar control. I’m sure they prob don’t work as well brushing of course.
Source?
Anecdotal. During my dog’s checkup’s they always say he has too much plaque and we can use those treats that clean their teeth. We’ve tried several different brands and they’ve never helped at all.
One thing, does your dog actually crack the treats or can it swallow them whole? We thought the same thing with our large (not overweight, but still 16 lb) cats. Gave them daily dental treats, vet kept saying teeth are bad.
We switched to a new vet during a move who explicitly pointed that out to us, if they aren’t actually chewing on and cracking them it does nothing. Got the same treat just made larger, way less dental issues.
He chews them.
Anecdotally, they at least make my dog’s breath smell slightly better which makes him smell better since he licks himself
Have you tried these? They’re the best ones I’ve found and my dog has to chew on them for days.
No, I’ll look into those.
Crest beef jerky! Experience the minty flavors of the…fuckin Southwest. Yeehaw!
There’s these toothpaste tablets/pills, which you put into your mouth, bite on them and then they turn into toothpaste for brushing.
When I first saw those, I also thought, they’d somehow clean your teeth without brushing. Like, maybe they’re one of those fizzy tablets, which I believe exist for cleaning fake dentures. Or when I then read that you bite on them, I thought, maybe they’re like special chewing gum. But yeah, it’s just toothpaste without the water.
Once I chewed a vitamin C tablet that looked like a TUMS. It was not like a TUMS. It was intended to dissolve in a glass of water.
It started fizzling and bubbling in my mouth, activated by the moisture that was there. I started intensely foaming at the mouth and almost threw up.
Good times, 10/10
On that note, I once accidentally brushed my teeth with Deep Heating ointment.
Would not recommend or try again.
It would never have occurred to me to try this, but now you’ve piqued my curiosity…
And then you got to stay at home because you seemed sick. Nice one Ferris Bueller.
Yeah, I was trying to find something that didn’t need water for when I’m away from a sink. Saw those tablets and thought they’d be great! Luckily I read the description.
I guess I’ll have to stick with the wisp things.
Doesn’t Xylitol gum help do that?
Which if you give to a dog will kill it.
There use to be gum with toothpaste grit and mouth wash in them.
in finland most of our gum just has xylitol in it
That’s how chewing gum has been marketed for as long as I can remember. Specifically Dentine.
but the question is, is it real?
I mean, it’s right there in the name.
No one is stopping you from giving yourself a treat for succeeding with such habits.
I’m pretty sure I’ve seen chewing gum advertised this way.
Yeah but the US dental association forced them to stop saying that it’s as good as flossing. It’s still good, just not that good.
Not as good as flossing but better than nothing*
*depending on sugar content that is
i don’t think i’ve ever seen (non-candy) gum that has sugar in it
then again wrigley has an almost total monopoly on non-candy gum…
If it has Xylitol, it’s actually pretty good because it kills the bacteria that cause cavities.
