I know it's been brought up a lot lately, so I thought I'd share my newest baby book addition.
Harvey has experienced doublefang syndrome, as I like to call it, while growing both his lower and upper canines. The lower ones fell out a couple of weeks ago, at about 5.5 months, and we've been watching the top closely. I knew they were getting loose, and sometime between last night and this morning, his left baby canine fell out. We're visiting my parents for the holidays currently, so who knows where it could be -- although I found a white towel in the floor with hundreds of lightly bloody bitemarks on it this afternoon. No tooth. So tonight, while sitting up FAR too late, I finally got him to sit still long enough for me to look closely at the remaining tooth. It was lightly bleeding, and VERY loose to the touch. He was very protective of it, and didn't want me messing around! So we began to play with toys, thinking I could help him dislodge it, but he refused to bite anything. Finally, my DB made the offer to do the deed. I gently snuggled him up and closed my eyes while he got a good grip... and barely a gentle tug later, it was out! It must've been so uncomfortable to have something that loose still stuck in your mouth! We filled his water dish with ice and water, and not more than 20 minutes later, his gums are immediately less inflamed.
Admittedly, he's a little jumpy, though... but he'll forgive us.
We kept the tooth for posterity... I was surprised at how little root there is to it. I hear others talking, but I never had a reference of what to look out for. It's almost like a toenail.
After all that excitement, the lasercats rest.
Harvey has experienced doublefang syndrome, as I like to call it, while growing both his lower and upper canines. The lower ones fell out a couple of weeks ago, at about 5.5 months, and we've been watching the top closely. I knew they were getting loose, and sometime between last night and this morning, his left baby canine fell out. We're visiting my parents for the holidays currently, so who knows where it could be -- although I found a white towel in the floor with hundreds of lightly bloody bitemarks on it this afternoon. No tooth. So tonight, while sitting up FAR too late, I finally got him to sit still long enough for me to look closely at the remaining tooth. It was lightly bleeding, and VERY loose to the touch. He was very protective of it, and didn't want me messing around! So we began to play with toys, thinking I could help him dislodge it, but he refused to bite anything. Finally, my DB made the offer to do the deed. I gently snuggled him up and closed my eyes while he got a good grip... and barely a gentle tug later, it was out! It must've been so uncomfortable to have something that loose still stuck in your mouth! We filled his water dish with ice and water, and not more than 20 minutes later, his gums are immediately less inflamed.
We kept the tooth for posterity... I was surprised at how little root there is to it. I hear others talking, but I never had a reference of what to look out for. It's almost like a toenail.
After all that excitement, the lasercats rest.
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I remember those days - just last year. I would find baby teeth here and there. With three kittens, I didn't know who tooth was whose. I even think sometimes they eat their teeth 
