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Let's talk about how often to brush your puppies teeth. First of all, puppies have baby teeth.
They do not get their full adult teeth in until they're just about six months of age
or a little bit after, and so it's not terribly important to brush a puppies teeth for the
function of long term dental care. The reason you want to do it early is to get them used
to it. Because a lot of puppies really don't like the whole action of brushing their teeth.
So the first thing to do is to use your finger. Be careful, puppies like to chew on everything
but what you want to do is just get them used to you sticking your finger in their mouth
and just gently rubbing those teeth, okay. Again, always be careful about those teeth
because they can be sharp, but with puppy teeth they are a lot smaller than adult teeth
and you know, they can be sensitive because they're growing as well and so what you want
to do is just gently rub on those gums, and gently rub on the incisors, and the molars.
And what you can do is graduate up to using a finger brush or a toothbrush that is designed
for dogs. There are a lot of kits that come with toothpaste and a finger brush in there
and so you eventually want to graduate to that but the first thing you want to do again
is to kind of get them use to the overall you know, kind of brushing ability that you're
going to be doing. Weekly is realistic. If you're trying to brush these guys every single
day that usually doesn't translate really well as they get older so weekly is probably
the most common thing, or as far as time frame is concerned about brushing your dog's teeth.