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I think that most dog owners are aware that tartar build up on their dog’s teeth will cause teeth to loosen and fall out - eventually. The tartar is caused mainly by foods that fed to the food that are too soft. Even mixing dry dog food in with soft foods does not eliminate the problem. A dog that is fed an entirely dry food diet will have less of a problem with tartar build up.

Because of the tartar build up problem a booming dog teeth cleaning industry has popped up over that past 20 years. Doggy toothpaste, flavored nylon chew toys, dried animal’s hoofs and ears and other such assorted oddities. That even does not cover the trips to the vet where they routinely ask if your dog would like it’s teeth cleaned while you are there on another matter, all to the tune of an extra 20 or more dollars.

When a new dog chew product comes along like Nubz (pictured below), some people are skeptical. Does it work? Is it expensive or will my dog even chew it?

Since I have no personal experience with the product, I have no idea if it works, but it can’t make a dogs teeth any worse than they are now. The product is made from chicken and is totally digestible as the label says. A big plus for me is that there are no plastics added in the mix. Some dog chews have plastic and nylon added so you might want to double check the label on your dog chew is your dog tends to eat them.

I do know that you can get them at Costco and if you are a member they have a coupon for them. The coupon does expire in a few weeks. I don’t know where else they sell them, but I would imagine that most chain pet stores will have them.

The name of the product struck me as odd. Wasn’t Nubz the name of that dog that had it’s ears cut off and the soldier bought it home? Or was that spelled Nubbs or Nubs?

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Do you love your pet well enough to take them to work with you? Can you take them to work? Of course the owner of a company or a family run business not only has the privilege to do so, they often are required to. Ranchers that have working dogs, may or may not be considered pets, but either way they are often more valuable than the highest pedigreed dog in the area. Those dogs are workers. What about pets that just lay around your feet all day while you work? Are they working pets? I would say yes. Those pets often provide a person a way to avoid work related stress. I cannot tell you how many times my pets have removed stress from my day almost instantly after they have nuzzled me or bugged me until I pet them.

Maybe if more companies would allow pets in their work place then worker stress would be eliminated. I am aware that the food industry would be off limits to my idea but those that work in offices would be perfect candidates. There would be less stressful engineers, sales people and accounting jobs. Who knows, maybe it would cut down on violence in the work place.

An interesting idea and I wonder if it has been put into practice already in more rural communities. Maybe it has since most work place violence has been occurring in larger metropolitan areas.

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Dog trainer gives some tips in the short video below on handling the hard to handle breeds of dogs. He has a mastiff and a pitbull mix with him in the video. He makes a good point that most people wait too long before training their dogs.

All the Creatures