How can you teach a dog to chew food rather than just swallow?

How can you teach a dog to chew food rather than just swallow?
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I think it’s in dogs’ nature not to chew very much. “Savor” isn’t printed very large in a dog’s dictionary. Your current dog is,I think, much more typical than your growing-up dog.
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