My my, what big teeth you have my dear!

When Ludo first came home, she had tiny needle-like teeth. Here is a picture (you will need to click on it to enlarge it so you can see her tiny teeth). They stayed like that for ages, all through the Biting Everything That Moved stage, but in the last month or so they have been falling out.


The weird thing is, I haven't actually seen any of them around. They don't seem to be falling out in her food bowl, or on the carpet, or on her chew toys. Her adult teeth were coming through and her baby teeth were disappearing, but where to?

Now that's what I call proper teeth! Apparently she probably swallowed them, or lost them in the garden. When we saw Ludo's breeder last weekend, she looked at her teeth and she had both her baby and adult canines. She told me that if they hadn't fallen out by the time she was 6 and a half months, I should get the vet to pull out the baby canines.

The very next time I looked, just a couple of days later, the baby canines had disappeared!

Ludo is very affable about letting me open her mouth and peer inside (that's how I got these pictures). And thankfully, she has pretty much completely stopped biting. Somebody in the park today praised her for taking a treat really gently - a lot of dogs snatch - and I felt really proud that her training is finally paying off!