Trouble with hard treats

[Guest Anonymous]

Caeser seems to either have trouble eating a hard treat or else he just doesn't like them. I just can't figure it out. He just went for his yearly checkup and everything was fine. But he just carries around a hard (cruchy) treat in his mouth for a really long time. The other two don't do this. They just chew it right up. Any ideas?

[kendalyn]

Does he usually eat kibble or soft food? If he normally eats the kibble, it's kind of odd that he doesn't like the hard treats. Maybe they just don't taste good?

If not, maybe he's not used to hard food, or maybe his gums are sensitive?

[Guest Anonymous]

He eats kibble and doesn't seem to have any trouble with it. I don't know what it is. The other two dogs like the treats. Caeser only seems to want to eat the soft ones though.

[courtnek]

some dogs have "softer" jaws then other. Freebee loves rawhide, but wont chew it until it's been softened first, usually by Laurel, who could chew up a rock if she wanted to....kibble is smaller and easier for them to chew then say, milk bones or hard treats. Also, they swallow a lot of kibble whole without ever chewing it up. A large, hard treat cant be swallowed whole.

Freebee takes a long time to eat a milkbone...she crunches it up little bits at a time, so I dont think there's anything wrong with your dog. Just a different tolerance to hard foods is all.