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Originally Posted by Lesley Carol  Hi
My furbaby (5 months old) LOVES to chew ice cubes. She's been as good as gold and never chewed anything but her toys - until about a week ago, when anything became fair game - including fingers! It seems her teeth are bugging her. A friend who has a Springer Spaniel told me about the ice cubes, and Lucy loves them. She seems to find them really comforting. She still has all her baby teeth, but I wonder if she's about to lose them? |
I think about 5 mo is when I noticed Bella started losing hers. But she's 6 1/2 mo now and she went in to be spayed yesterday. The vet said she already had all her permanents in, but she still had NINE baby teeth that he extracted (he only charged me for 6 at $9.25 a pop!)
They have a dog toy called a Chilly Bone (I think it's made by Multivet?) that you can soke with water and then freeze. Bella chewed on hers......and liked ice too. I don't think it does anything to help the teeth fall out so much as comfort their poor little sore gumbs since they're teething. Good luck with teething!! Play lots of tug with rope toys and give lots of hard things to chew to help them come out....maybe yours will get luckier than Bella was and not have so many that need pulled later. They say retaining deciduous teeth is very common for tiny breeds, though...