Genetics has everything to do with dental health. I've seen dogs that
have never needed a dental cleaning in their lives, to dogs who need
dental cleanings yearly. All fed kibble. I have to say, from personal
experience, that my dog was on his way to needing a dental cleaning by
age 2. I switched him to frankenprey and the chicken bones took care
of all the tartar. He now has shiny, pearly white teeth. It's the same
with my cats and ferrets. The bones act as nature's toothbrush and
clean those teeth.

I do not doubt that some ferrets/cats/dogs thrive on kibble. But some
thrive on raw just the same. It's personal preference of what the owner
want to feed and what the pet will accept. 2 of my 3 ferrets took a
look at a mouse (pre-killed, frozen/thawed) and knew it was food and
gobbled it up. While my third one is thriving on kibble still because
he freaks out if chicken even touches him.

As for the poops, in my experience, raw fed poops have almost no smell
to them at all. I can hardly smell my raw eating girls or their poops,
my kibble eating male smells horrendous and his poops could knock over
a buzzard. No, my guy is not fed fish and only gets dribbles of
ferretone each day.

As for price, I have found that depending on your situation, it can go
either way. For my dog, who is allergic to corn, wheat, yeast, white
potato, and green pea, it would cost me over $3 a day to feed him a
hypoallergenic kibble. On raw, it's costing me about $0.90 a day. My
ferrets, I get mice and chicks for about $0.16 a piece (RodentPro is
the supplier) and the cats eat a little less than a chicken wing a day,
and I buy in packs of 30 for $5 a pack. Their kibble was $35 a bag
which lasted about a month, if that.

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