I have a 14 year old longhair Persian, and she is in perfect health. She gets a lot of exercise, eats both canned and dry food regularly, gets outside a lot.
I brush her not every day, but at least a couple times a week all her life, and she enjoys that. She rarely gets hairballs from her own grooming, maybe 2 or 3 times a year.
In the last couple months though, she gets mats of hair stuck on her lower canines, and I have to pull it off her teeth with my fingers. This happens a couple times a week. She's never had this problem before. Her teeth and gums are healthy, but I'm afraid that this constant buildup of hair on her teeth will damage her gums.
I've controlled the problem by manually cleaning it off the teeth, but I just wonder why this comes about? And is there anything that I can do to prevent this from occurring? Does anyone else have this problem?
I brush her not every day, but at least a couple times a week all her life, and she enjoys that. She rarely gets hairballs from her own grooming, maybe 2 or 3 times a year.
In the last couple months though, she gets mats of hair stuck on her lower canines, and I have to pull it off her teeth with my fingers. This happens a couple times a week. She's never had this problem before. Her teeth and gums are healthy, but I'm afraid that this constant buildup of hair on her teeth will damage her gums.
I've controlled the problem by manually cleaning it off the teeth, but I just wonder why this comes about? And is there anything that I can do to prevent this from occurring? Does anyone else have this problem?
what's funnier is that he sometimes he gets so anxious to remove the fur that he begins to hop!! I'll have to take a photo or video of it sometime.
