Our dogs' toothpaste is chicken flavored. This is to lure dogs into letting their humans swivel a prickly thing around in their mouths without them putting up too much of a fuss while they try and savor the chickeny goodness from this foreign object. Of course this is assuming that your dog likes chicken flavor. I've seen other dog breath products with minty flavoring, but dogs probably don't like that too much, unlike us humans who prefer minty, mentholy, cooling brisk mints, wash, and paste. The thing is, dogs eat "chicken" flavored, and beef and lamb flavored, and possibly other barnyard beast-flavored dog chow pretty much as a main staple like in the way we'd eat potatoes, bread, lettuce, tomatoes, or rice, what have you. But we don't have bread flavored toothpaste. Or rice flavored. Granted, that would be bland. But we don't even flavor our toothpastes with our favorite tasty flavors. There is no Cool Ranch flavored toothpaste. Or Chocolate. Neither is there Spicy Mexican, Cookie Dough, Sharp White Cheddar, Zesty Italian nor Peanutbutter and Jelly. Yet those are just some of the common favorite flavors we Americans like to eat. But spearmint? peppermint? cool cinnamint? I can't remember when I ate a food with those flavors, not even a small candy. Weird that we should think our dogs would like their teeth brushed with food-flavored paste, yet we wouldn't tolerate the flavor of mashed potatoes being swished around in our mouths to keep our teeth clean.

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