And what's this?! My poor little girl's tooth! :( One night, I discovered that Zou's upper left canine was broken. She was drinking funny, I could hear it. This is what I found when I looked... It was bad. You can see the pulp is exposed. I've had enough experience with bad teeth and root canals to know how painful this probably was for her!!! You can also see that the tooth behind it was also damaged. Don't know if she got it from playing with Hayes (they were going at it pretty hard and non-stop in those early days, and VERY mouthy!!) or chewing on their dog bones. But that meant trying to find proper vets to deal with the situation. We found a great general vet right in Mandeville to help direct us. He not only verified our concerns and recommended a veterinary dental specialist in Baton Rouge (there aren't that many, so we were glad to get a referral to someone good not that far away!), but he also ended up convincing us to do more research on the fast vs. slow kill methods for heartworm treatment for Hayes. He was a strong proponent for the slow kill, and after a lot of internet reading, so were we! That vet spared Hayes and us A LOT of pain and suffering!!!!!!!!! (not to mention the 5% mortality rate we discovered with the Immiticide shots!!!)
On our way back from Baton Rouge, after picking up our girl. She's still pretty dozey... Good to have Daddy's shoulder for times like these!!! We ended up having a partial root canal done, in the hopes of saving the tooth. At this point (about 3 months later), I'm not 100% sure we shouldn't have done the full root canal. Sure wish we spoke DOG better!! She's definitely better, but I can't tell if she's cured. She still drinks sort of funny...but that could just be me being a worried mom over-interpreting the situation...!
With only 3 days left of school, I need a shoulder too!
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