The Honest Kitchen review: feeding a ruthless, toothless 14-year-old dog

Margot died in June 2023. Gloria died in December 2025. Mingo is what’s left of a senior rescue pack that used to be a threesome, and somewhere in the months since he became the last man standing, he decided that made him king. He’s 14. He has no teeth. And he has developed some serious opinions when it comes to what he will and will not eat. That combination is a specific kind of problem. A dog with a full set of K-9s who gets picky is an annoyance. A dog with none who gets picky becomes a math problem, because the choice of food he can physically eat is already small, and then you have to find the subset of that pool he’ll actually dig into. Kibble is out. Freeze-dried chunks are a maybe. Most senior dry formulas are just smaller, drier kibble, which does nothing to stop a dog from nubbi