Baby Tooth

This is NOT his first tooth, but it is the only baby tooth I have!!! I was extremely excited today to actually catch it hanging to the gum. I was playing with him, Kong Stick, fetch. I literally pinned the puppy down, and tried my best to grip the tiny tooth (his right, bottom, canine tooth).

At one point I was trying to get Cooper to stay still, to tie a piece of string, it was barely hanging on and his drool was preventing me from using my finger. That of course didn’t work, because the tooth would go back into the hole it created while coming out, and it is so tiny the string kept slipping back off. So much for the approach I’ve seen some parents do on TV with normal kids…

When that stopped working, I tried my best to grip the bottom of the tooth (where it used to hang into the gums), I figured it was jagged… IT WORKED!!! Now I have a baby tooth to add to his baby book!!! I am pretty sure previous baby teeth have either been vacuumed up or swallowed.

This means a lot to me because Cooper is like one of my children, and he’s the boys’ first dog… but thankfully, even if I wasn’t afforded this small blessing, he is in enough family photos that he’ll be remembered and talked about with my future grandchildren.

(small note: I can’t wait for his next set of classes to start! The trainer is amazing and gifted with her profession, and I look forward to a dog that can be loved by others. Right now his biggest issue is that he gets hyper and jumps on people, and I think it is “naughty/rude”.)