My dog has had 5 canine teeth for quite awhile now...Her bottom-left canine has 2 of them - her puppy one and her adult one.

I believe that Ed has said (in his video) that he lets them run their course and fall out on their own. She will be 6 months old June 21st so I know she's still a little young. However, all her other teeth are adult teeth and are growing just fine.

The canine tooth is simply pushed out...her adult one is behind it and her puppy tooth is being pushed outwards from her adult tooth.

The thing is, it doesn't feel loose or look like it's going to fall out on its own. Her adult canine behind it isn't positioned properly and I'm only concerned that the adult tooth will not move to the outside of her mouth far enough because her puppy tooth is sitting there. (I could probably get a pic and link it here if necessary)

Am I worrying for nothing? It's been there for a month now (2 teeth together), whereas all her other teeth have come out pretty fast, with new adults taking their place.

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I'd be yanking at it until it was loose, then gone.
I too would be worried it's impeding.

i personally, wouldn't worry too much about it. my boy, at 20 wks old, has floppy ears, all his adult incisors, both his baby and adult eye-teeth, half his adult molars (i even dreamed about this friday night--how sick is that <img src="http://www.leerburgkennels.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />.

give him/her some good bones, my boy LOVES ice cubes and frozen chicken wings...let nature take it's course!

Thanks for the replies. I think I'm gonna see how she does with some bones more frequently or something.

We give her raw soup bones and she gnaws on those things, much to her liking. It's just that the position of the tooth is really hard to be affected by her chewing because the adult tooth is already raised above her baby one.

We give her ice cubes, especially since its been a bit hot here. She'll eat 30 in a day if we give them to her. (Just have to let her outside more to pee, of course)

Maybe I'll stick with more bones and see how she does or ask on her next vet visit. The soup bones are nice because she gets her front teeth in there to scrape out the marrow.

We're getting her spayed June 22nd, right after 6 months so maybe I'll ask about them doing something about it during that time and see what they say.

It just had me kinda feelin' weird because everything else came so quick. All her adult teeth are in and lookin' great, minus this one. Plus her ears have stood up since 10 weeks of age, which is something that I've never seen before.

Wanted to give an update on the status of this for anyone interested.

The tooth was removed by the vet (for free while she was getting spayed) because there were no signs of it coming out. It started looking crappy, like yellow and started getting darker. Not an unhealthy look, but like she was getting some food caught in it. So they pulled it for me and you can't even tell.

She's chewing on her bones and food with no issues at all and everything looks great in her mouth. I started thinking there would be some hole, but there's no evidence that it was just removed.

Thought I'd offer the closing statement on what was done in case someone ever searches and comes across the posts.

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