Vegetable based animal chew and animal chew toy and method for making the same
OwnerPatrice Michelle Snookinventor
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Abstract
An animal chew product that provides oral hygiene benefits, comprising portions of dehydrated sweet potatoes or yams or both. In addition, the process for using and making said animal chew product.
Claims20
An animal chew product for maintaining the oral health of an animal comprising at least one portion of a dehydrated vegetable, said portion selected from a sweet potato and a yam, and a cord arranged to restrain said portion, wherein said portion is secured to said cord.
An animal chew product for maintaining the oral health of an animal comprising at least one portion of a dehydrated vegetable, said portion selected from a sweet potato and a yam, and at least one handle, whereby a human user may grasp said animal chew product with said handle while said animal uses its mouth parts to grasp said portion.
An animal chew product for maintaining the oral health of an animal comprising at least one portion of a dehydrated vegetable, said portion selected from a sweet potato and a yam, and at least one hanger, whereby said hanger can be used to secure said animal chew product in an elevated position.
An animal chew product for maintaining the oral health of an animal comprising:
- (a) a plurality of portions of a dehydrated vegetable, said portions selected from a sweet potato and a yam, said portions each having a first end and a second end, wherein said portions are restrained;
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- (b) an articulating connector arranged to restrain said first end of a first portion proximate said first end of a second portion, whereby said plurality of portions may be arranged and restrained, and whereby said animal chew product can articulate in a multitude of angles and directions.
A method for making an animal chew product for maintaining the oral health of an animal comprising the acts of:
- (a) selecting at least one raw vegetable from a group consisting of a sweet potato and a yam;
- (b) cutting said raw vegetable into at least one raw portion having a first end and a second end;
- (c) removing a substantially cylindrical core from said raw portion, thereby creating an annular space in said raw portion extending from said first end to said second end;
- (d) dehydrating said raw portion, thereby producing a hard dehydrated portion;
- (e) arranging at least one hard dehydrated portion on a cord;
- (f) restraining said hard dehydrated portion with said cord;
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- (g) securing said cord to said hard dehydrated portion.
A method for maintaining the oral health of an animal comprising the acts of:
- (a) providing at least one portion of a dehydrated vegetable selected from a group consisting of yam and sweet potato to said animal, wherein said dehydrated portion has a hardness sufficient to clean said animal's mouth parts or exercise said animal's mouth parts;
- (b) arranging said at least one dehydrated portion on a supple connector;
- (c) restraining and securing said portion on said supple connector;
- (d) having a human user grasp a distal end of said connector, and
- (e) permitting said animal to grasp said portion with its mouth parts;
- whereby said animal may tug and play with said portion in a multitude of angles and directions with its mouth parts while said distal end is retrained by said user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.