Thank you for joining me on the Pet Doctor Blog. Today, I’m going to be answering questions about teething in puppies and kittens.
Just like with us, puppies and kittens are born with a set of teeth that fall out. Right at about sixteen weeks of age, around four months, they start to lose the incisors, the top two in the front and by the time they’re six months of age, they lose the canines, the long teeth in the front and then by seven to nine months of age, they have a full set of adult teeth. You will often notice that your puppy or kitten likes to chew on things during this time and that helps them when the teeth are loose to relieve some of that soreness and to help the baby teeth fall out. It’s not unusual for you to not ever see the baby teeth, they often will swallow them and you never get to see it, but every once in a while, you might find a baby tooth stuck to a toy and that’s okay.
We do keep an eye on your puppy’s mouth as they come in for their visits every three weeks because some puppies will retain their baby teeth and they can get in the way of normal eruption of the adult teeth. We’ll see that as a double tooth when they come in for their visit, so it’s important to have those baby teeth extracted so they don’t cause problems with the permanent teeth. We usually will do that when they come in for their spay and neuter at six months of age, but certainly if you have any questions about your pet’s teeth, you can always bring them in and we can take a quick look.
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