i really wish they made those chewing sticks for humans, chewing on a rubbery stick sounds amazing to my autistic mind
like that would instantly take me from middling tooth health to best teeth in the game, i’d be chewing those shits day in day out to the point that the dentist has to tell me to cut it down, not to mention how great it would be for jaw strength!
Please be conscientious if you choose to use a coping method like this. Some estimates put misophonia as prevalent as affecting 1 in 5 people. Your chewing on something to calm yourself down may be setting off full fight or flight in the person next to you.
Probably because dogs only live like 10-15 years. Their little gnashers don’t have to last quite so long… Then again they also like to chew up wood n shit so I suppose they go through a lot.
There’s these toothpaste tablets/pills, which you put into your mouth, bite on them and then they turn into toothpaste for brushing.
When I first saw those, I also thought, they’d somehow clean your teeth without brushing. Like, maybe they’re one of those fizzy tablets, which I believe exist for cleaning fake dentures. Or when I then read that you bite on them, I thought, maybe they’re like special chewing gum. But yeah, it’s just toothpaste without the water.
Yeah, I was trying to find something that didn’t need water for when I’m away from a sink. Saw those tablets and thought they’d be great! Luckily I read the description.
i find gum way too soft to have any significant cleaning effect, maybe when you first bite into it the crunchy shell does something minor, but it needs to be like 50% harder to feel effective.
You can just gnaw on dog treats if you want. Like nobody is stopping you. My parents tried and failed many many years ago, but the sandy texture of the treats they bought was a major turnoff for me, so no need fam. If dentabones or whatever had been a thing back then I might have a different story…
Fun fact; most pet foods and treats are tested at some stage by humans for flavor, because animals can’t really give proper critique. So someone, somewhere, has probably already eaten them.
I haven’t tried those but the generic ones that were bbq flavor back in the 90s were made from flour and water and probably nothing else, and crumbled on bite into nasty wheat sand.
I’m a very small sample size being one guy who works in a dog food factory. But we absolutely do not test our products on humans. All our meat products are marked not for human consumption.
The seasonings and what have you are often tested by the npd crowd but I can’t imagine a scenario where anyone would actually try the finished product.
When someone talks about cat food the real alternative is food like SPAM. And SPAM IS cheaper than cat food. Buying cat food to eat is an expensive enterprise, thus the original point is false.
I dunno what to tell you. It’s been a thing since I worked a retail job as a kid and was warned to advise management if someone was buying “a lot” of cat food and seemed poorer than average. Found an article. It’s one of those things where there were PDAs about it in the 80s, there’s articles of it happening during the pandemic, but I’m not finding any scholarly articles.
The seasonings and what have you are often tested by the npd crowd
This is the “at some stage” portion, I assume (tho I don’t understand the lingo you are using tbh)
Dry foods are bland and flavorless kibbles without the flavor coating, often using the same meal for multiple lines, so you just test the coating. But other products don’t have that luxury, like wet foods and treats that have soft core or whatever.
Obviously nobody is consuming it as a diet, but they do test it :)
What testing is done is that core temps are monitored, moisture levels checked and there’s micro testing for bacteria and what not. Its all also run through metal detectors at multiple stages throughout the process.
This should theoretically be safe for human consumption but all of the unprocessed meat is marked as cat 3 and isn’t fit for humans. A company would be opening themselves to liability if they were to make people test it.
I mean, I get that it’s a bit of a bummer to bring up, but is it really that much of a social faux pas when when it’s a completely reasonable answer to the question?
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