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11-25-2012, 05:48 AM | #1 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Minneapolis, MN USA
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| Puppy needs his teeth out? Have any of you been told that your Yorkie need to have teeth out as a puppy by 6 months if not out on their own? The vet said Yorkies are notorious for not losing puppy teeth on their own. Any opinions?
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11-25-2012, 06:58 AM | #3 |
Rosehill Yorkies Donating YT Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Houston Texas
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| Retained baby teeth are common in Yorkies and are usually removed when you put them under for their spay/neuter at around 8 months of age...by 8 months, all the adult teeth are in, and you can get any baby teeth that remain, pulled. I personally do not like to advocate spaying/nutering before 8 months of age....evidence-based research shows there are permanent problems caused by this push to spay/neuter at such early ages. There seems to be something behind that "old wives tale" to let females go thru one heat cycle.....and you want to allow growth plates to be completed and optimal. |
11-25-2012, 09:42 AM | #4 |
Yorkie mom of 4 Donating YT Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: LaPlata, Md
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| Callie got spayed around 9 months and had 3 teeth pulled I think. It is normal for yorkies to have to get teeth pulled when they get fixed that's why a lot of people like to wait until at least 6 months if not a little older so they can get the baby teeth pulled at the same time. Leaving the baby teeth can cause food to get caught between the teeth if the adult teeth have already grown in and it can mess up the alignment of there teeth.
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11-25-2012, 12:49 PM | #5 |
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| It is best to get retained puppy teeth pulled out during the spay/neuter procedure. My female (almost 3 years) had a puppy tooth fall out during her dental a couple weeks ago. I don't know why it wasn't pulled during her spay, but it's gone now.
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11-25-2012, 03:02 PM | #6 |
Donating YT 5000 Club Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: VA
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| Oh yes....Zhoie had 13 teeth removed with her spay. My girl may just have the record for the most retained....LOL.
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11-25-2012, 04:35 PM | #7 |
YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Northern Virginia
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| Yup, Brody had to get his retained puppy teeth removed during his neuter!
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11-26-2012, 10:42 AM | #9 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Toronto, Canada
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| Tufty and Teegy were 8 and 9 months old when I got them snipped and they removed excess teeth, Teegy 4 Tufty 5, during the surgery |
11-26-2012, 10:48 AM | #10 |
Don't Litter Spay&Neuter Donating Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: So Cal
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| Loll might be a record! Momo had double rows of retained baby teeth on top he looked like jaws. Can't remember how many teeth he had pulled, but it was around 11 or so, maybe more. I think none of his baby teeth came out bc his adult teeth are so tiny...it's (poor) genetics.
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11-26-2012, 01:54 PM | #11 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: West Virginia
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| Tink was spayed when she was 6 months old and they needed to pull two puppy teeth. She came through fine....you'd never know she had teeth pulled when she got home! LOL |
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