Howbone Dental Stick Chicken Dog Treats - 75g

Howbone Dental Stick Chicken Dog Treats - 75g is a pouch of chicken-flavour dental sticks with an air-bubble texture running through them. The idea is that a dog has to work at the stick rather than swallow it, so the chewing does some scraping along the way. Howbone positions it as a daily chew that is easy on digestion.

Key Features

• Chewing action: the bubbled texture gives the teeth something to scrape against instead of collapsing on the first bite.
• Chicken flavour: enough to interest most dogs that turn their nose up at a plain dental chew.
• Soluble: Howbone describes the stick as easy on digestion, which is the point of a chew a dog has every day.
• One a day: sized to be a daily routine rather than an occasional treat.
• 75g pouch: a small pack, so you can see whether your dog takes to it before buying more.

What A Dental Chew Does And Does Not Do

• Chewing helps lift soft plaque while it is still soft. It does nothing to tartar that has already hardened onto the tooth.
• Nothing your dog chews replaces brushing or a scale and polish at the vet. Treat this as a top-up between proper dental care.
• Bad breath that does not shift, a dog that chews on one side, or red gums are reasons to see a vet rather than to buy a bigger bag of chews.

Good To Know

• The pack is labelled a flavour rather than a named meat content, so treat it as a flavoured snack rather than a source of protein in the diet.
• Treats are extra calories. Keep them to roughly a tenth of what your dog eats in a day and take the difference off the main meal.
• Stay in the room while your dog works on a chew. Take the last piece away once it is small enough to swallow whole, and keep fresh water down.
• Introduce any new treat over a few days. A sudden change can give a dog loose stools even when nothing is wrong with the food.
• Press the pack closed again after each use and keep it somewhere cool and dry. Left open, these dry out and lose the smell that makes a dog want them.