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Hi all,
When we adopted my senior rescue she already had advanced periodontal disease. She had 8 teeth removed before we got her. Our vet says in order to keep it from getting worse we have to brush her teeth every day.
I've got one of those dog toothbrushes as well as one of ones that slip over your finger and the chicken flavored toothpaste but no matter what we do she HATES it.
It took us almost a full 30 minutes with two fully grown adults holding her last night to just get the brush in her mouth on each side. Normally she is very submissive and relaxed but watching the ordeal you'd probably think we were torturing her.
Does anyone have any advice for this? She squirms with every muscle in her body and whips her head around like a toddler that refuses to eat his peas. We talk to her and calm her down but as soon as the brush gets pulled out again it's back to squirming.
When we adopted my senior rescue she already had advanced periodontal disease. She had 8 teeth removed before we got her. Our vet says in order to keep it from getting worse we have to brush her teeth every day.
I've got one of those dog toothbrushes as well as one of ones that slip over your finger and the chicken flavored toothpaste but no matter what we do she HATES it.
It took us almost a full 30 minutes with two fully grown adults holding her last night to just get the brush in her mouth on each side. Normally she is very submissive and relaxed but watching the ordeal you'd probably think we were torturing her.
Does anyone have any advice for this? She squirms with every muscle in her body and whips her head around like a toddler that refuses to eat his peas. We talk to her and calm her down but as soon as the brush gets pulled out again it's back to squirming.