Today my dog went in to get a tooth pulled. Contrary to the thread title, my mini dachsound is almost 12 years old. Old puppy, but still a puppy in my mind.
Anyways, since he was already going to go under to have the tooth pulled (infected), we decided to have his teeth cleaned too. After pulling the tooth and cleaning the rest, they found a bunch of other teeth that needed to be pulled. So now my poor dog only has back teeth! Almost all of the front ones are totally gone.
He was really out of it last night because of the painkillers, but was quite happy to see me come home to see him.
I know, it is mostly our fault that he lost his teeth. We never brushed them to begin with, and since he was so old we didnt want to risk putting him under to have them cleaned. We tried feeding him treats that would clean his teeth, but that didnt work too well, to say the least. The next dog will be toothbrush trained, to prevent his inevitable toothlessness.