Teething chews

[JES72]

I gave Stanley some raw hide chews to gnaw on as he’s teething - and spends most oh his time trying to chew on me!
He’s biting off chunks that are too large for him to digest safely. Last night he regurgitated three quite big chunks of the raw hide with some of his kibble dinner. Which was a bit of a scare.
I have a yak milk chew for him but he is t interested in it and a worry that it’s too hard for his teeth.

What could I give him that would be safe but would also last s while. He has carrots or courgette but they go down within seconds.

 

[Atemas]

I put wet food (Forthglade) into a Kong for Red and froze it. She’d spend ages with that as a puppy and at least I knew it was part of her diet anyway

 

[Atemas]

Should add @JES72 whilst the kong was not a chew - I tried all those and didn’t want them for her - it did need her to chew the kong to ‘defrost’ the contents and it took her about 30 minutes to empty. She did also have one of those wood blocks - can’ t remember what they are called but it always bothered me that she’d break a tooth or swallow a chunk of the wood so I wasn’t keen on her having that

 

[HAH]

I gave Stanley some raw hide chews to gnaw on as he’s teething - and spends most oh his time trying to chew on me!
He’s biting off chunks that are too large for him to digest safely. Last night he regurgitated three quite big chunks of the raw hide with some of his kibble dinner. Which was a bit of a scare.
I have a yak milk chew for him but he is t interested in it and a worry that it’s too hard for his teeth.

What could I give him that would be safe but would also last s while. He has carrots or courgette but they go down within seconds.

We had a heck of a time with Stilton’s teething (still need to replace the doors and replaster the wall…), so solidarity with you for that phase. We had similar with the chews, we found that the medium bully rolls (beef) from Anco and others were generally thin enough for him to chew up rather than bite into big chunks. I also tried coffee root and olive wood chews (which tend to break off in tiny bits rather than splinters) but these were never really popular. We also tried split antlers, but again they were not really popular and I always felt they were pretty hard. Finally, we had some success with hooves and cow horns which flake rather than splinter. Good luck, this too will pass…

 

[Anne123]

I just put a piece of towel into the freezer for tomorrow. Odin is uncomfartable with his teething. It looks like they come out all at once....Yesterday 3 and today again 2. This evening he is crying a bit and resstless. He went to bed crying in his crate.

The piece of towel is a tip I got from the dogtraining. Hopefully it will help.

I also give him Coffeebone, olivewood bone, rabit ears, carrot out of the fridge, piece of cucumber out of the fridge....Not all on one day ofcourse...

 

[M.F.]

I’ve read terrible things about rawhide chews, about the glue used to make them, apparently toxic.

Dried ears are good. Or pizzle sticks.

Snowie loved ripping up cardboard boxes. And he gnawed on the wooden feet of the barrier we made to protect our wooden skirtings.

He also got various raw meaty bones. Raw ostrich kneecaps and beef trachea are also good, the latter especially good cos they’re rubbery and take a long time to chew.

 

[Candy]

I put wet food (Forthglade) into a Kong for Red and froze it. She’d spend ages with that as a puppy and at least I knew it was part of her diet anyway

I also used to give Joy part of her daily food allowance in a Kong, mixed with fat free yoghurt and frozen. As @Atemas has said, it lasted her for ages and was part of her diet. The cold also seemed soothing for her gums. She still loves a frozen Kong now.