Cat Grooming: Checking Teeth

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Summary: Try to get your cat relaxed before checking their teeth. Learn how to properly check cat's teeth from a veterinarian in this free pet care video.

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By Tracy Carreiro
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Tracy Carreiro is a graduate of Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine. She has been a practicing veterinarian for nearly 20 years. Growing up on a dairy farm, she grew to...read more

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"Dental disease and dental care is something that's very important for cats but it's not talked about very much. Cats are pretty independent temperaments and they tend, people tend not to explore and investigate them as thoroughly as they do their dogs. So checking teeth is really important but a lot of people don't know how to do it. As you can see I'm sort of getting May Lee relaxed and comfortable, scratching her ears and her neck so she's not alarmed when I go to look at her teeth. So you just want to just lift up that lip a little bit and just stretch it back and you can look at all of her teeth. And notice if there's any sores there. If she had a dental infection I could probably smell it from here. And you can look and see if her gums are healthy. She actually has all her teeth. You can see in front she's got her 6 little upper and lower incisors. And those beautiful canine teeth that help her to grasp prey in the wild. But here they just don't do much. And you can see here May Lee has a little bit of a discoloration there. A little bit of plaque which is a fairly common occurrence in older cats who are more than a year old. So we need to keep track of our cats teeth. Check them regularly and I'm going to show you in a later series how to brush your cats teeth."

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