Birker2020
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No nasty comments please.
We recently attended our vets with our 8 year old beagle bitch Summer with another issue and we were talking about her weight loss (planned) where she has lost 4.5 lbs. Whilst there I happened to mention to the vet that our dog has always been very slow and steady when eating, she has never been too bothered about food, other than treats and she is extremely fussy with food and she has some very strange traits like she will turn her head to see if you are watching her eat, if she sees you watching she will stop until you turn away or leave the kitchen (I have no idea why she does this). She also waits outside the kitchen door at the bottom of the stairs whilst you are preparing her dinner and won't go near it until you tell her - she came to us like this at the age of 2 as a rescue so someone had obviously taught her this.
We have also noticed that she can be quite slow eating, as if you would eat something that is very hot with huge care and attention! But she always eats her food so has no problem with that, but often leaves the small bite mixer (soft or hard) and she will eat treats like those chicken twists and chicken fillet type treats but turns her nose up at anything else. She plays tug with various toys, its her favourite game. She prefers those softer plush toys with the squeak so we know that her teeth defect aren't causing any pain. She will run and chase a ball and retrieve it and she will play with other harder toys but prefers soft items.
Anyway the vet looked in her mouth and said that she had a narrow bottom jaw conformation and linguoverted canines. Said her lower jaw is narrower. She didn't say if there was any treatment for it and so we are going to leave it for now as she seems happy enough and the vet didn't think it was of any great concern.
I know she has a bit of tartar so we will get her some dentastix. Apparently this linguoverted canines is a common issue in a lot of breeds.
We recently attended our vets with our 8 year old beagle bitch Summer with another issue and we were talking about her weight loss (planned) where she has lost 4.5 lbs. Whilst there I happened to mention to the vet that our dog has always been very slow and steady when eating, she has never been too bothered about food, other than treats and she is extremely fussy with food and she has some very strange traits like she will turn her head to see if you are watching her eat, if she sees you watching she will stop until you turn away or leave the kitchen (I have no idea why she does this). She also waits outside the kitchen door at the bottom of the stairs whilst you are preparing her dinner and won't go near it until you tell her - she came to us like this at the age of 2 as a rescue so someone had obviously taught her this.
We have also noticed that she can be quite slow eating, as if you would eat something that is very hot with huge care and attention! But she always eats her food so has no problem with that, but often leaves the small bite mixer (soft or hard) and she will eat treats like those chicken twists and chicken fillet type treats but turns her nose up at anything else. She plays tug with various toys, its her favourite game. She prefers those softer plush toys with the squeak so we know that her teeth defect aren't causing any pain. She will run and chase a ball and retrieve it and she will play with other harder toys but prefers soft items.
Anyway the vet looked in her mouth and said that she had a narrow bottom jaw conformation and linguoverted canines. Said her lower jaw is narrower. She didn't say if there was any treatment for it and so we are going to leave it for now as she seems happy enough and the vet didn't think it was of any great concern.
I know she has a bit of tartar so we will get her some dentastix. Apparently this linguoverted canines is a common issue in a lot of breeds.
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