I’m excited to share something new that I recently
learned!
Not long ago I was sitting on the floor with Leopold, giving
him a head massage and rubbing his ears, when he decided to give me
kisses. ….Stinky, smelly, eau de dead-animal, rotten kisses. Bleh!
We’ve been putting up with bad doggy breath
around this house for a while, but it was then that I decided to finally try something I had
read about a while ago in a book: adding a little parsley to a dog’s food is
said to help fight bad breath! (I’ve heard it works on humans, too).
We’ve been putting parsley on Leopold and Halo’s food off
and on for the past week or so. Every
time we put parsley on their food, their breath is noticeably better! And their breath goes back to being kind of stinky the
times we forget to add parsley. The
parsley seems to be a bad-breath-exterminating success!
In addition to now being able to withstand being in the same
room with my dogs when they yawn, I can also feel good about adding some extra
nutrients to their food. Parsley is a
source of vitamin C, vitamin A, calcium, magnesium, and iron. Some think that it may even help prevent
cancer!
I plan on making parsley a daily addition to my dogs’ meals
from now on!
Reference:
Brown, Andi. Whole
Pet Diet: Eight Weeks to Great Health for Dogs and Cats. New York:
Celestial Arts, Crown Publishing Group, Random House, Inc, 2006. Print.