Need help - Puppy question

[Nascia]

Need some advice, kinda freakin out. Dh and I were playing fetch with our 4 month old puppy using a rope/ bone kinda toy. I was sitting on the floor when she came running at me. I put my arm up to protect my face and she jumped into it. When she got up I noticed a little bit of blood on my arm . She whimpered a bit and when I looked into her mouth I noticed she was missing a tooth. It didn't bleed long or much, but it did start bleeding again when she went to chew on her bone. She also pawed at her mouth a few times. Is this normal? Do we need to do anything or will it get better on its own? I felt so bad, I was nearly in tears . Thanks in advance, this is our first puppy so we have no experience with this kind of thing.

 

[HERSEY]

She should be just fine. I think you just knocked a loose tooth out. They normally start falling out around now.

 

[RrCoAsTeR]

4 months= new teeth.

They'll start losing them, and growing new ones. Since it was bleeding, you probably hit a really loose one against your arm and it came out a bit sooner than it would have.

 

[rcraw45425]

I remember those days! Scruffy loves to play tug the cotton rope with us. When he was little it was nothing to find them in the floor, in the rope, etc. Your baby will be fine

 

[yellow sudoko]

Your baby will be fine. No need to panic.

 

[chager]

From about 4-6 months Gabby would leave blood on chew toys or poeple. Her baby teeth were coming out. She is 8 mo now so we are taking it a day at a time! I have decided that altoough puppies are cute it is much nicer when they belong to someone else. We will not do the puppy thing again UNLESS it is a smaller dog. Gabby doesn't understand she is a big dog yet.

 

[Nascia]

Thanks for the replies. For some reason I was thinking that if it was ready to come out, there'd be no blood. She loves that thing and I was half afraid to play with her anymore. I feel soo much better now. Thanks again.

 

[mylilnikita]

First congradulations on the puppy! Puppies teethe like babies do, except they have bigger teeth usually. Pet stores have teething rings or kongs that you can freeze and give to the puppy to ease the pain of teething. My puppy even tried to chew on her tooth that had come out.

 

[amyrocks20]

I would say that maybe it was because of the bone or rope. Maybe someone pulled it hard from her mouth. That is all i can think of. Hope she gets better!!

 

[phillybeth]

I hope the Tooth Fairy leaves a few milkbones under her dog bed tonight

 

[Amlee]

I was scared the first time I noticed Baylee's teeth coming out. I didn't know that puppies lost their puppy teeth. He and his brother used the wood chairs in my office as teething rings.

 

[ceeyore]

No reason to panic. Puppies loose teeth just like kids. Unusally they end up eating them.

Couple of years ago I had a deaf dalmatian, who while at a puppy sitter, lost a tooth. The nutty people we hang out with actually wrote a note and wrapped up the tooth. What a keepsake? Unfortunatley, I lost her shortly after that, while cleaning one day I found the tooth. I had forgotten all about it.