why does my dogs breath smell of fish even though he is perfectly healthy with normal bowel movements and his teeth are perfect?
Is there anything that I can give him that would improve the smell (maybe parsley) its supposed to work for humans?

You dont feed him chappie do you?

no why?
He is on a complete food (bakers complete) at the moment but I do change it from time to time and sometimes add a little tinned meat as an appetiser (he doesnt like it bald)!!
I have used a cheap low protein tinned food (so as not to increase the protein content too much)
Is that what it is do you think?

I suppose my breath might smell if I was capable of licking my own backside :)

On a serious note, dog breath depends on what you feed them. I have found that with the inclusion of raw food my dogs breath is as sweet as can be.

I always tell my children not to let Holly like their mouths, as that's the tongue she uses to lick her backside!!

Fiona

I am seriously thinking of going over to a semi barf diet if I can find a ready supply of suitable raw food that isn't too expensive.

Try Albion meats in Birmingham Tel. 0121 5255997. They deliver (I am in South Wales) and are very cheap. Both of our dogs have meat from them and they are both looking lovely on it. We used to use Bakers and I have never looked back.
Naomi.

Hi,
like a few others say, get yourself the Ian Billinghirst books. How do I do it? Well I go to a pultyr wholesalers where they actually prepre chickens. I buy minced carcass and whole carcass for the dogs to chomp up.

I also go to a butchers who has his own slaughter house, I pay £4.00 for 4 bin liners full of bones. I have to pick the good from the bad. No weight supporting bones. I just make a rule of no bones with a ball or socket.

In the bags I get ribs, necks, trotters, breastbones etc. The key to BARF is that your dog must be able to crush the bone it is getting. I can give my Mal a 18inch long trotter and it takes her 2 hours to eat her morning meal. A cocker just stips the meat off a trotter so they get chicken carcass and ribs.

Re the vegetable portion, dogs can not digest raw veggies. Lots of books tell you to pulverise them to break up the cellulose. I cheat, I get things like cabbage and chopped carrot and bung it in a bag in the chest freezer. Freezing unblanched veggies like this causes the cells to burst allowing the dog to diget the matter.

So what I would suggest is get the yellow pages out, ring around the poultry wholesalers and smile sweetly at the butcher and get all their none weight supporting bones. I even know someone who get all the grocers out of date veg for free.

Once you have used raw food you will not turn back.

Dogs and cats often smell like the food they eat - if it isn't nice then it's time to change their diet (preferably to a natural one) - not mask the smell!

Hi
Elsa has this exact problem, her breath really honks at any time of the day or night, and always of fish, but my other dog, Morris was fed exactly the same and his breath never smelled! I have been told that Elsa's dad's breath stinks too, so maybe it's hereditary??
emily, stinky and Morris