The Good: Only theoretical
The Bad: Cats avoid it entirely.
The Basics: Arm & Hammer Advanced Care Dental Water Additive might have been a great product . . . if only my cats could possibly be coaxed into ever using it!
Every now and then, I discover a product that is absolutely impossible for me to recommend, despite what appears to be inherent quality to it. Like a food with great (quality) ingredients that is nevertheless inedible and has poor nitritional value, Arm & Hammer Advanced Care Dental Water Additive comes from a good company and has a decent (supposed) benefit. Unfortunately, after two months of trying to get my cats to use the Arm & Hammer Advanced Care Dental Water Additive, both adamantly refuse - up to and including drinking less-clean water and water out of the toilet - to drink water that includes the Arm & Hammer Advanced Care Dental Water Additive! As a result, this is an absolutely worthless product.
Basics
Arm & Hammer Advanced Care Dental Water Additive is a liquid that is supposed to be added to water in order to promote dental health for cats. The 8 fluid ounce container is supposedly odorless and flavorless. To my senses, it lives up on those fronts. Given that we spent almost $10 on the 8 oz. bottle, I had high hopes for the product and expected to get several months of use out of it. After two months, the bottle has only been depleted by, at best, an ounce.
Ease Of Preparation
The Arm & Hammer water additive is a health care supplement designed to increase the oral health of cats, so preparation is as unscrewing the cap and pouring fluid. The proper dosage is one capful of the Arm & Hammer Advanced Care Dental Water Additive to 8 oz. of water. I've experimented with down to a single drop in the same 8 oz. of water and the results are the same: my cays absolutely, adamantly, refuse to drink from a dish of water that the Arm & Hammer Advanced Care Dental Water Additive has been added to.
Elim And Timber’s Reaction
Arm & Hammer Advanced Care Dental Water Additive might be odorless and flavorless, but my cats, Timber and Elim, know whenever I have added it to their water. Regardless of how little is added to otherwise clean water, both of my cats have avoided ater with the Arm & Hammer Advanced Care Dental Water Additive at all costs. Timber recoiled from the water dish whenever the additive was used. When placed side by side with clean, unadulterated, water, Timber chose the clean water each and every time. When placed side by side with unclean water, Timber chose the water with sentiment and scum! Elim avoided the water with any quantity of Arm & Hammer Advanced Care Dental Water Additive added to it as well. Elim ran away from his water dish when the Arm & Hammer Advanced Care Dental Water Additive (in any amount) was added to his clean water. He ran to Myah's (our Siberan Husky's) water dish which is less clean and inconveniently located for him and drank from her slobber-tainted dish rather than drink even a sip of water that was filtered and clean but had drops (not even the full recommended dose!) of Arm & Hammer Advanced Care Dental Water Additive added to it!
Nutrition
Made primarily of water, sorbitol, and polysorbate, the purpose of the Arm & Hammer Advanced Care Dental Water Additive is to whiten teeth and strengthen cat's teeth while freshening their breath. Given how the cats refuse to use it, it does nothing for cats.
Overview
The Arm & Hammer Advanced Care Dental Water Additive fails to do any of what it is supposed to, making it absolutely impossible to recommend.
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