Natural dog chews to clean back teeth

[Newlittlerescue]

I'm looking for highly palatable natural dog chews with a good abrasive action. DDog currently has a dried chicken foot a few times a week that he eventually eats reluctantly (after a few hours of sitting looking at it suspiciously in his bed!) so I'd need something equally or more tasty. He turns his nose up at dried beef trachea, pigs ears and large bones - I think they are too much on the chew, rather than the tasty treat, side. (He doesn't chew toys and he doesn't like Whimzies, dentastix etc).

I was wondering about dried beef tendon but think that might be a bit 'chew then it gets soggy', rather than crunch down and scrape the back teeth. But I've only seen photos so I don't know how hard they are...They look as though they'd be tasty?

Also been looking at the fish skin treats (which I expect he'd like), but I'm imagining they would break down fairly quickly.

Anyone have any recommendations? Thank you!

The fish skin ones are pretty raspy, as they are very crisp and have the scales on. I'd give them a try.

Do you brush his teeth? (My attempts are more like shoving a smear of doggy toothpaste in than actual brushing, but I live in hope.)

Thanks, I'll try the fish ones!

Yes, I do clean his teeth daily (I started the first day I got him so the poor thing doesn't know any different!) and he tolerates it well. But his back teeth still have the tartar he arrived with. I expect he'll ultimately need a dental (and then I can stay on top of things with brushing) but he's currently very vet phobic so I want to try things at home first.

They do give the dog fish-breath, not surprisingly

Lamb braids?

Dried ostrich bones. They are safe but break in a way that makes them very abrasive.

I'd forgotten about ostrich! I've just seen you can get ostrich feet, so that might be the way to go, given he'll eat chicken feet.

Reporting back: ostrich feet were a success! He was a bit meh to start but I soaked the tip (the toe?) in a mug of hot water for 5 mins which softened/meatified it enough to encourage him to make a start, and then he didn't look back. They are very hard and scrapey, lots of crunching going on, so I think they must be cleaning his teeth well.

I don't know what size dog you have, but be aware that the ostrich feet break into the constituent bones and if your dogs are stupid like mine they will swallow the chunks whole and then vomit them up in the middle of the night 🤮

Take a look at JR Pet Products, they have natural treats, and will have some that they recommend for teeth cleaning

We give ours buffalo horns, rabbits ears, lamb braids, pizzles, pigs ears, amongst other revolting things, we also use a dog toothpaste that our vet recommended which has enzymes in. We use that 2-3 times a week.
We also give carrots and celery.