Mentos for the Dogs

At the music festival last weekend, there were sponsors there handing out samples of different foods. One of the samples was Mentos - they gave two rolls to each of us. For those of you a little math challenged that means we came home with 6 rolls. Somewhere, one evening, we got the idea to feed some to our dogs to give them better breath. Well . . . the problem with that is that Sam doesn't really chew his food. He gives it a couple of crunches and then swallows. How on earth is that going to give him better breath.

Ranger on the other hand chews everything into tiny little pieces. And during the chewing, he usually spits it out a couple times so that he can smell it and lick it - I've never seen a dog take so much time to chew treats but he does. It was funny watching him eat his mentos. And did his breath smell very minty afterward.

To solve the Sam problem, we tried softening one up in the microwave. Well, it didn't soften instead it just melted. Sam enjoyed licking the melted mentos, but it still didn't do much for his breath. We got a great laugh out if it all, so it was worth it in the long run.