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The other day I was sitting in my kitchen, when my 8 month old puppy, Ruger,
came to me with something in his mouth. He was rolling it around his mouth like we do with a piece of hard candy...in fact, that's what it sounded like.
Now since I don't have hard candy anywhere he could get it, I knew I had to investigate. He's learning "drop it" and "leave it", but not well enough yet to give up his treasure.
Ruger has a big mouth! But since he is an agreeable fellow, I reached in, and no longer able to see below my wrist, began to use my fingers to explore all the caves and folds in there. It wasn't difficult to move around, since it was well lubricated with the slobber from holding his jaws open.
Finally I hit paydirt! I gripped the slippery object and slowly pulled out my hand, and gasped in disbelief! This is it...
A TOOTH!!! Imagine my astonishment when I realized what it was!
So next project was to find out where(or who) it came from.
The results of my searches:
All 3 of my dogs have all 4 canines.
There are 2 dog graves in my yard--neither is disturbed.
There are no dead bodies in my yard, at least as of last evening.
It is almost impossible that Ruger had a jaunt outside of my fence. I watch him almost constantly, and such an adventure would have been difficult and taken quite a while to pull off, even if there was something dead in close proximity.
So what are your ideas? If the tooth donor was alive when this happened, what could make an entire tooth and root come out unbroken? Wouldn't that require a huge trauma?
I've never seen it, but do puppies ever lose a canine tooth when teething?
Everybody! Help me figure this out! 🤔😃
came to me with something in his mouth. He was rolling it around his mouth like we do with a piece of hard candy...in fact, that's what it sounded like.
Now since I don't have hard candy anywhere he could get it, I knew I had to investigate. He's learning "drop it" and "leave it", but not well enough yet to give up his treasure.
Ruger has a big mouth! But since he is an agreeable fellow, I reached in, and no longer able to see below my wrist, began to use my fingers to explore all the caves and folds in there. It wasn't difficult to move around, since it was well lubricated with the slobber from holding his jaws open.
Finally I hit paydirt! I gripped the slippery object and slowly pulled out my hand, and gasped in disbelief! This is it...
A TOOTH!!! Imagine my astonishment when I realized what it was!
So next project was to find out where(or who) it came from.
The results of my searches:
All 3 of my dogs have all 4 canines.
There are 2 dog graves in my yard--neither is disturbed.
There are no dead bodies in my yard, at least as of last evening.
It is almost impossible that Ruger had a jaunt outside of my fence. I watch him almost constantly, and such an adventure would have been difficult and taken quite a while to pull off, even if there was something dead in close proximity.
So what are your ideas? If the tooth donor was alive when this happened, what could make an entire tooth and root come out unbroken? Wouldn't that require a huge trauma?
I've never seen it, but do puppies ever lose a canine tooth when teething?
Everybody! Help me figure this out! 🤔😃
