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Originally Posted by Cloud (Post 533867)

Considering that poor teeth can shorten a cat's life considerably, it's worth it to pay some attention to it. You can have them professionally cleaned every couple of years--the vet has to anesthetize them to do it, though.

Yeh and we as the owners are expected to do it to them with the drugs. HA :headshake

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Originally Posted by classicman (Post 533876)

Yeh and we as the owners are expected to do it to them with[out] the drugs. HA :headshake

Yeah. I have a couple "chainsaws" that I have to keep a box of bandaids handy when I have to medicate them...and the vet wants me to purposely stick my fingers in their mouth? Um, I'd rather let the vet do that.
I also had a cat who lost all but her canine teeth and she did just fine on canned food twice a day and dry food to snack on whenever she wished. She maintained her weight just fine, the fat little butterball.

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Originally Posted by Shawnee123 (Post 533815)

You're not supposed to give dogs chicken bones because they splinter...do cats know this? ;)

Cooked chicken bones splinter. Raw ones do not.
The small pieces a cat can gnaw off a chicken wing pass through the digestive tract just fine. Bones (raw) get sort of goo-ey and soft as the digestive juices work on them. The larger bones, the cat just gnaws along the bone to get the meat off.

OK...that makes sense.

But they'll still drag bones all over the house. :)

I know. That [dragging the food around] is what makes me cringe and not try it...