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Teething

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Small plastic bag & three of Yakira’s teeth

Yakira is well into the teething process. I’ve found three teeth so far. She lost all her tiny front teeth a few weeks ago. But they are so small that finding one of them is almost impossible. With every puppy I think they are going to go through teething and I’m not going to find any teeth. But so far I’ve been wrong. I found the first tooth on Friday, one of her canines. The second was on Saturday. We were playing tough with her new rope she got for Christmas and one of her back teeth came out. I think this one may have hurt a little bit coming out. There was lots more root left on than usual. Then yesterday I found another canine on the floor. There is a small chance this tooth might be Osaka’s. She lost the last of her canines while she was here for a sleep over but it seems to be a good match in size and color or Yakira’s other tooth. I like to put the puppy teeth into a little plastic zip-top bag with their name on it. This way I can tell whose teeth are whose. One of these days I’m going to put together a little box for each puppy with things like their teeth and their puppy collars in it.

Ear Trouble

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Casey has decided that Banta’s ear is the best chew toy. It is rare these days for Banta’s ears not to have slobber on them either wet or dry. I’ve been discouraging it but Banta doesn’t seem to mind so it is hard to catch Casey chewing on them. They seem to be quietly hanging out together and the next thing I know is Casey is at it again. Well today I had already cleaned Banta’s ears off several times when just before Casey and I were ready to head off for puppy class, I was in for a shock. Banta’s ear was bright red. Apparently Casey is in the middle of loosing a tooth and she left behind as much blood as she did dog slobber!

Puppy Teeth

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Casey has been teething for several weeks now. I usually know she is loosing a tooth because Banta has blood on her face, ears or body from Casey. It is surprising how much it shows up on a light colored dog. I have been able to save teeth from both Apex and Banta but I wasn’t sure I would ever find one from Casey. She likes to pick up tiny rocks from the ground so I figured that most of her teeth would end up in her stomach. I’m not willing to go through her poop to get a tooth! Now I actually have two of her teeth. I got the first one yesterday. Casey and I were at a district committee meeting for Boy Scouts and noticed that Casey was interested in something on the floor. I checked it out and yeah it was a tooth! Today 24 hours later I noticed she was chewing on something and it was another tooth. Now I have a matching set.

Today marks one month until Banta returns to GDB. It also marks the 10th day of being in season. 18 more days of confinement. Mostly it hasn’t been too bad but she was bit feisty with Casey a few times today and I had to devise new tactics to keep them apart but let them have some freedom. This evening she has been doing the sit and stare at me thing. I tried everything I could think of, potty break, tug, cuddle time, none of it seemed to work. I tried to get a picture of her with the “stare” but she squints when the flash goes off.