Inu lost two P4 teeth in one night :O

Inu lost two P4 premolars teeth from her upper jaw last night with only about 1 hour apart. With left site first, then right site. They sure were bloody. I was not sure if inu felt pain/discomfort or not. The only thing I knew was that inu just kept on biting us none stop [-(.

It was funny seeing inu chewing her biscuit last night. Inu sure felt a little awkward for not being able to use her old P4 teeth to chew again. The biscuit was rewarded to inu for sensing two cockroaches in the house last night. They were hiding behind the door and inu was able to sniff and pin point their location. The next morning I found inu exploring two more cockroaches in her toilet, they were moving rather slowly. Good job inu, for catching four cockroaches over one night. You have a new job.

Picky Inu

Inu did not seem to like her food in lamb and rice flavor either. You sure are picky, inu. Whenever we mixed her regular food with can food, she would be so excited jumping up and down smelling for her food. Then she would finish them in no time. Thinking of starving her for a couple days if she does not want to take her regular food. Then she may realize how important it is whenever food is presented to her.

We bought bacon sauce for inu over the weekend. The purpose was to increase the taste of her regular food so inu would want to eat her food. Although inu finished her food with the added bacon sauce, I did not see the excitement as I saw with the can food. This is so contradictory to all the articles I read, that beagles will eat basically any food you give them and they will eat till they drop.

Inu lost two of her upper jaw molars teeth M1 (back teeth) over the weekend, with right side first, then left side. It was a bit bloody. I found that the permanent ones were growing and pushing her teeth out. Inu might not know what was that and felt a bit weird feeling something in her mouth, I was glad to be with inu throughout this process. I found that one of her Premolars teeth P4 from upper jaw was loosening also due to growing of her permanent teeth. The permanent teeth sure look bigger and stronger with snow white color.

Inu does not like her regular dry food

Inu did not seem to be excited anymore during her meal time. She did not finish her dry food anymore. Did she get bored of her regular dry food? Or was she not feeling well during this teeth replacing period? Ah, yes, inu lost more teeth in the past few days but new teeth are growing back. To get inu eating well, we bought a chicken flavored can food for inu. By mixing the can food and the dry food, inu became excited again during her meal time. When I took out the can food in the bowl from the refrigerator, inu could immediately sense it and started jumping on me. She finished all her meals in no time.

Inu finished the can food 2 days ago and back to the regular dry food. She would refuse to eat at the beginning, I had to bury some of her favorite food like 'crunchy', her dog treat, and pineapple :) under the dry food to force her to eat. She would usually dig out her favorite food and ignore her dry food. But eventually, she would take quite a long time to finish everything. This morning, inu did not even finish her dry food when we left the house. I just put the remaining on the floor. I thought she would finish them when she felt hungry.

We will get inu another can food tonight to mix with her dry food to get her eating again. I don't want to pamper this monster too much with tasty food but this would be a temporary solution, at least for now, I hope.

Inu lost three teeth in two days :O

Inu has 2 set of towels that she likes very much as she can play pull and drag games with us. This is her favorite game. Whenever we have the towel in the hand, she would rush to us crazily and start jumping around trying to bite the towel. Sometimes, she would hold her towel in her mouth and walk to us begging for play time.

While playing with inu the other night, we heard a snapping sound from inu's mouth. While checking inu's teeth, I found one broken tooth and one shaking tooth at inu's upper jaw. We were not sure if we broke the teeth or it's time for inu's second set of teeth. But we were told puppy with replace their first set of teeth at around 5-month old. But Inu is only 4-month old now.

There were more surprises the next day. While checking inu's teeth again, I realized that the shaking tooth at the upper jaw was gone. Even more amazing, I found another broken tooth in my hand. Somehow, one tooth from the lower jaw was gone also. But inu's biting and chewing habits still have not improved. Well, may be it's time for inu to replace the first set of teeth. I will have to monitor inu's teeth in the next few weeks.

Inu will have some visitors tomorrow. She will be very crazy again. Living with us all these while must be boring for her with so many 'No' commands.

First snack and new toy for inu

Inu's chewing habit has not improved all this while. She would sometimes spend quite a while focusing on chewing her old plastic toy. While we could take a short period catching our breath when she was chewing, imaging digging plastic debris from inu's mouth and pulling long (yes, I meant loooong) thread from inu's stool, I had to throw away some of her old toys.

We went to pet shop again over the weekend and found inu a new toy. Three hard plastic rings fastening together. It will be a good chewing toy for inu. While browsing around, we got inu her first biscuit snack. She would be crazy for the snack.

Inu normally would spend some time for her new toy. Especially those empty drinking water bottle we gave her lately. She would spend whole night chasing the bottle, running around, chewing, and making a lot of noises. To our surprise, inu did not seem to like her new 3-ring plastic toy. I had to act excitedly and force her to play with the new toy. We were told later by a pet shop owner that beagle liked noisy toys. That explained it. Well, guess we can save her toy money now by giving her only the empty drinking water bottle :D.

Down, inu, down

We taught inu new command over the weekend. To our surprise, inu learned it well for only about 10 practices. I was expecting about 1 week for inu to pick up the command 'down'. Our inu sure is smart :). When I was holding a treat in my hand and asked inu to sit first, she would sit, though reluctantly. Then I asked her “Down, inu, down, down”, I have to ask several times with treat in my hand and inu would eventually lay down on the floor reluctantly. I was sure that inu knew what we were asking but she was just too stubborn to follow. Finally, I would put the treat about 2 inches in front of her nose and asked “Hold, inu, hold, hold”, and inu would just stare at the treat impatiently. She would hold up dashing for the treat until I say “go, go, go”. Although she would sometimes walked around me trying to reach for the treat, when I yelled “hold' loud enough, she would just walk around the treat impatiently. We were so thrilled for inu's great accomplishment.

What's next to teach inu to do? Stay? Roll over? Turn? Speak? We'll see.

Inu's 3rd vaccination

Inu went for her 3rd vaccination and deworm over the weekend. She weighted about 6.8 kg in the clinic and the body temperature was measured at 39.2 C (38 C to 39.5 C is considered normal). Inu sure is heavy now. Doctor mentioned that the marks/rashes at her abdomen was okay. The inner ear was a bit dirty though and we would need to clean it with baby oil. Doctor also mentioned that it was okay to use cotton bar to clean the inner ear as dog's ear passage was tilted so the cotton bar would not reach the ear drum easily.

Fighting with the viruses was smoother this time. Inu was very active whole day and did not sleep as much as last time. She just took regular afternoon nap.

The next vaccination will be a year from now. In the mean time, we need to start looking around for the heart worm drugs fro inu at her 5-month old age. Which will be about 1 month from now.

Inu did not seem to grow noticeable longer from last measurement. We fed her Eukanuba small breed puppy as we could not find medium breed puppy dog food from Eukanuba. They have small breed/puppy, small breed/adult, medium breed/adult, large breed/puppy, and large breed/adult. Go figure...