9 year old rescue and a question

**Taz_Zoee** · 12-23-2007, 07:30 PM

Another great idea Freedom.

Actually, the roommate even has a dog, but they don't play. I guess the other dog is an extremely overweight chihuahua.

**loveallfurryfriends** · 12-23-2007, 09:53 PM

My dog Smokey is a maltese/poodle mix. He is also quite a noisy guy! Make sure that all the blinds are closed & I leave the TV or the radio on to drown out the noise outside. Hopefully it might help.

**Taz_Zoee** · 12-29-2007, 02:36 AM

Well Jackie has her mom watch Nila as often as possible. They just took her to the vet yesterday and she has to have surgery to remove her fangs and most of her back teeth. They are cracked and just not good.
I'm going to see if she can get me a picture to post for you.

**Freedom** · 12-29-2007, 09:09 AM

Sorry to hear about the teeth but, a 9 year old white poodle mix, this is fairly common. The small white dogs in general seem to have genetic predispositions to bad teeth.

Do you remember back in September when my foster dog, Marlin, had 38 extractions? He had quite a few bad days and even had to return to the vet for fluids and another pain injection, he was so unhappy and getting dehydrated. That was 3 days after the surgery. He was on soft foods for about 6 weeks while everything healed up. I started with canned, then moistened dry kibble with warm water and mixed that in, started reducing the amount of canned food. He now eats dry kibble again. Of course, he scouts around to see if there is anything BETTER available first.

And every now and then he STILL barks at the dish, to see if I'll break down and give him some of the yummy soft tasty stuff. (I don't do that anymore!)

Point being, she and her mom who watched the dog will just need to be patient, the dog will eventually recover!

**Taz_Zoee** · 12-29-2007, 01:23 PM

Yes Freedom, I do remember Marlin and his teeth issue. In fact, I told Jackie about it. They knew she had teeth problems, that was one of the main reasons they took her to the vet. She's just nervous about the whole surgery thing, which I don't blame her one bit. But I will reassure her that Nila will heal just fine with time.

Thank you.