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Caring for your pug’s pearly whites
Caring for your pug’s pearly whites By OwnedByPugs.com January 31st, 2008 Do you know what the most common disease is for dogs and cats? Surprisingly, it is periodontal disease. Because of the number of cats and dogs that suffer from periodontal disease, February has been named National Pet Dental Month. What is Periodontal Disease Periodontal [...]
Curing bad breath: Getting rid of halitosis by using a tongue scraper or brush.
Most people overlook cleaning their tongue but starting to do so on a regular basis can be the single most beneficial treatment for bad breath (halitosis) that a person can institute. Remember the breath tests we suggested you perform at the beginning of this topic? They revealed that the smell of the anterior portion of [...]
Go Pug Yourself: More on dental care

Lumpy | Main | Pug Sunday More on dental care While Shelby was at the vet getting her lump checked out, Steven asked about dental care. Our thinking was that if Shelby had to be anesthetized for some other procedure, that we might as well get her teeth cleaned as well. Despite the numerous Greenies, [...]
Judge Mint Day – By Seth Stevenson

Breath mints don’t really work. No matter which space-age compounds they boast (Retsyn! Neutrazin!), breath mints just temporarily mask your bad breath and foul-tasting mouth by tasting and smelling stronger than the enemy. They don’t fundamentally change anything: That would require getting rid of the anaerobic bacteria in your mouth that cause bad breath, and [...]
Go Pug Yourself: Dental care

Puppy cold | Main | Get a real job Dental care Through some amazing act of grace, Shelby finally let me inspect her teeth. Most of her teeth looked pretty good, probably because she plays/chews her stuffed toys, bones, cow hoof, and other hard things. She also gets hard kibble. The back molars looked like [...]
My 7 week old pug-zu puppy has really bad breath…
Hello there. Often, puppies have terrible, skunky breath due to their mother’s milk. This tends to linger for several weeks after they stop nursing, so that could be the case. If he’s on softer foods at this point, this could also be contributing to the bad breath because kibble tends to scrape off some of [...]