Once you’ve decided to feed your puppy only natural puppy food, you still have an other dog food decision to make: soft or hard dog food? This decision can be confusing to many of us.

If your dog is like most, she loves soft moist canned dog food. Who wouldn’t prefer soft dog food to dry kibble in a bag? Soft dog food offers your dog better smells, not to mention more taste appeal. But the fact is, crunchy items are essential for the dental health of your pet.

There’s a case to be made for feeding your dog both wet food and dry food. However, if you really don’t want to feed your dog dry kibble from a bag, you can use dog treats such as dog biscuits. In addition, your dog can exercise her jaw with chew toys.

During your dog’s annual veterinarian checkup, the vet or veterinary technician will examine your dogs teeth and will alert or warn you of any issue that needs attention.

You veterinarian has probably already explained that dogs need hard materials to chew on, since this will offer their powerful jaw muscles a good workout and help to strengthen their teeth. It also offers them an ideal form of dental care.

As a dog owner, you should brush your dog’s teeth at least twice weekly. However, if this is not possible, hard crunchy foods can make up the difference. Hard chew toys can also help loosen the build up of plaque and tartar.

Whether you choose to feed your dog moist or dry food, you need to provide your dog with something that gives a regular teeth and jaw workout. While visiting the veterinarian for checkups, the vet will examine your dogs teeth and will alert or warn you of any issue that needs attending and correcting with a different type of dog food, more opportunities to chew, or even dietary supplements.

The bottom line is, if you would like to feed your dog moist foods it will be just fine, but do make sure that your dog also has access to things that he can give a good chew.

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