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Helping your Puppy through the Teething Stage

By: Hollis Holland

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You may be reading this article because you have recently acquired a puppy, plan to get a puppy or a puppy has chewed up all your personal items! What can a puppy owner do to minimize the damages as he’s waiting for the puppies to grow up?

Puppies and human babies are both born without teeth. Moreover, puppies, like human babies, must go through the pain of emerging teeth. For the puppy, the baby teeth start coming in between the sixth and eighth week of life. Puppies grow new teeth off and on for several months as different teeth come in.

And just like human children, puppies lose their puppy teeth. However, they start much earlier than people do. By 3 months, a puppy will start losing his first puppy teeth. His adult teeth start coming through by his fourth month. Amazingly, by the eighth month your dog will have a full set of adult dog teeth. That’s around fourth two teeth! Now that’s a lot of teething misery!

With this thought in mind, it is easy to see that puppies have a need to chew. It would be unrealistic to expect him not to chew. He needs to chew to relieve the pain of growing teeth.

The best way to help him is to provide him with good dog chew toys. There are many different types and shapes for puppies and dogs. The shape and size of the chew toy will depend on your dog and his personal needs.

To protect your furniture, personal items and also to protect the puppy from chewing something he shouldn’t (such as wires), you must teach him that there are things he can chew and things he can’t. Having a chew toy that he likes handy will be useful. When he has the wrong object in his mouth, take it away and give him his chew toy. Tell him that it is his and reward him with pats and loves as he chews on his chew toy.

Having a kennel to put your puppy in when you are busy and can’t supervise his chewing, will also help protect your things and teach him that he has chew toys which he can chew. Place his chewing toys in the kennel with him. Make sure he has a variety so that he can choose.

Some good dog toys include rubber balls which are durable and have different textures to keep your dog interested. The rounded points on balls provide gentle massage to gums for enhance dental health and relive the pain from the immerging tooth.

Frozen chew dog toys are an excellent choice of chew type toys. The coldness of the chew toy will numb the pain of the tooth. You can freeze them and then give them to the puppy as needed.

Puppies need a softer rubber than you would give an adult dog. Just watch your puppy because some puppies are stronger chewers and need adult dog chew toys. If your puppy doesn’t seem interested in chew toys, try a brand that come in flavors such as bacon. Food flavored chew toys just might be the chew toy he needs to keep him chewing on the right things!

Some dogs may like a good teething rope chew toy. Teething ropes are also available.

There is one other important item you can buy to help your puppy through the teething pain. Oral medications are available which dull the pain of teething. When the medication is applied to the gums, it numbs the pain of the emerging tooth.

Good luck with your puppy! And may your furniture and personal stuff survive your puppy's teething stage!

Julee Wing
3653 Nicklesville rd NE
Resaca, Ga 30735

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