VETSCOPE

I have a Toy Poodle that turns 5 years old this year. What kind of dog food do you recommend?

I adopted a female Toy poodle that's about 2 and a half years old, who runs around the room every day. It's cute and I don't see anything dangerous about it so I leave her alone, but should I make her stop? Is there a possibility of some disorder? She usually doesn't run around whenever we go to the park - she shrinks behind me and just barks.

I have a question about dog food. I gave my dog "First Mate", but because I had been topping it with chicken breasts and breast strips, her BUN had gotten too high. Since then I stopped adding the chicken, but now she won't eat dog food by itself. She will eat food samples at first because they're new to her, but I'm thinking of what I should do. Could you please give me some advice?

My dog wouldn't let me brush her teeth since she was little, and now she has quite an amount of built-up tartar. Her teeth are starting to fall out because of her periodontal disease progressing. Our local vet says that dogs swallow food without chewing so they don't really need their teeth and that teeth scaling under general anesthesia might be risky in lightweight dogs. Do you think it's okay if I follow what our vet says and leave the tartar? Also, there's a pet store near us that offers teeth scaling without anesthesia. Do you think there are any risks in taking this procedure?