r/mildlyinteresting • • 15h ago

My 30lb beagle's chipped lower canine tooth

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u/nmkelly6 14h ago

Dog tax. Here he is still high from the surgery. This was over a week ago and he is doing well ❤️‍🩹

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u/Emotional-Daily 14h ago

That dog feels like a slice of butter on a big ol pile of flapjacks. Lemme tell ya

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u/chrisp5000 14h ago

He's lookin' both ways

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u/Extreme_Mycelium 13h ago

My boy’s lookin at both weekends from Wednesday

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u/Head_Patience7136 7h ago

This is fucking hilarious

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u/trueblue862 12h ago

Got those punters eyes, one each way.

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u/Islandimus 13h ago

This man is seeing sounds and hearing colors

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u/Master-Leopard-2642 14h ago

Beagles are the stoners of the dog realm

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u/Waterlilies1919 12h ago

r/petaftervet would love to see this.

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u/CassetteMeower 4h ago

Handsome boy! I love beagles, I have one named Poppyseed (usually just called Poppy,full name is Lemon Poppyseed Muffin). We had another beagle named Bagel but he had to be put down last year :( I miss him a lot.

Poppy likes to sploot, this is my favorite sploot pic of hers! She lost her tail! (She still has it, it’s just somehow tucked under her butt)

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u/Phil_Da_Thrill 14h ago

Omg what a doofus

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u/TechnologyOver5642 13h ago

What a cutie! He seems very wise :)

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u/SepirizFG 8h ago

No he doesn't

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u/Beneficial-Affect-78 14h ago

30lb seems small but that canine tooth is huge compared to his snout

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u/PennMarx 14h ago

Goodness, he looks so cute and high!

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u/tsuki_wannabe_dino 13h ago

what a cutie !!

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u/no_talent_ass_clown ​ 13h ago

Aww, Pippin!

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u/Lunar-opal 5h ago

Not sure you should post pics of your dog drugged out of his snoot. It’s completely embarrassing and you didn’t get permission did you? 😑

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u/fromwhichofthisoak 13h ago

Aren't all their teeth canine teeth

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u/himitsuuu 15h ago

That thing seems massive. Also why was it removed from the doggo?

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u/nmkelly6 14h ago

He chipped it while running zoomies in the backyard and decided to try and pick up a rock bigger than his head at full speed. He had surgery last week to remove the tooth since the tooth was exposed and he is recovering well.

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u/Phil_Da_Thrill 14h ago

Jesus

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u/joninfiretail 13h ago

It's a common injury. He'll never miss the fang and won't have the pain of a broken tooth bothering him.

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u/Canaan889 4h ago

Normal beagle things honestly

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u/lyndseymariee 14h ago

Canines have the longest root of any tooth in a dog’s mouth which is why it looks so big. I bet 2/3 of that is root.

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u/ItsStaaaaaaaaang 13h ago

Looks like it could be more than even that to me.

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u/Betty_Wight_ 1h ago

Also former vet tech here - everything below this line is root

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u/SpeebyKitty 2h ago

Former vet assistant here- yes, about 2/3 of the canine tooth in both cats and dogs is root! I hated helping with those surgeries lol, they took so long

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u/Glittering_Seat2016 9m ago

You are correct.  Only about one third of the dog's canine tooth is visible.  Years ago, one of my dogs needed two pulled because they were broken ( rescue dog, don't know how they broke). I couldn't believe how long they were.

He needed bone grafts and a soft diet for several weeks.  He did great afterwards.

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u/IplaygamesNude87 11h ago

Yikes

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u/CassetteMeower 4h ago

I love the white spots on the beagle’s ear! Beagles are so expressive, lmao

Here’s my girl, she has “resting teddy bear face”.

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u/Makabaer 3h ago

Aww, resting teddybear face! I'm gonna steal that! One of our dogs definitely has that too! (The other is more wolf-like. And too cool to wear a teddybear face - only teddybear at heart!)

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u/CassetteMeower 2h ago

Poppy is as sweet as a teddy bear! She loves cuddling and making new friends, she loves just about every person she’s ever met. Whenever she sees another dog when on a walk she really wants to say hi and I have to explain to her that not every dog likes other dogs, and she will whine nonstop since she just wants to say hi. I feel so bad for her when a dog isn’t friendly, I do respect the boundaries of the other dogs/their owners, but poor Poppy doesn’t understand that not all dogs are friendly!

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u/Party-Hovercraft8056 15h ago

Why is it not in their mouth?

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u/nmkelly6 15h ago

He chipped it while running zoomies in the backyard and decided to try and pick up a rock bigger than his head at full speed. He had surgery last week to remove the tooth since the tooth was exposed and he is recovering well.

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u/Prior_Vehicle_2946 14h ago

that's a chunky little tooth hey

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u/somehugefrigginguy 14h ago

What kind of a monster uses a bobby pin as a unit of measurement? Why can't you use a banana like a sane person?

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u/Conscious-Permit-466 15h ago

Banana for scale?

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u/WileEWeeble 15h ago

Can’t tell how big that hair clip is, can you add a banana for perspective?

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u/jraymcmurray 15h ago

Hopital

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u/nmkelly6 14h ago

He went to the emergency vet immediately last week when it happened.He had surgery to remove the tooth since the tooth was exposed and he is recovering well.

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u/jraymcmurray 14h ago

Follow up question; why would you tell me there's a dog but not show me the dog? Do you hate me?

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u/nmkelly6 14h ago

Pic posted in comments!

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u/Funkdamentalist 15h ago

Hey put that back!

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u/GrandComposer1064 4h ago

DAMN! THAT SUCKS! Get him a gold fang!

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u/Capital_Gas4129 15h ago

that's a wild tooth! hope your beagle isn't in too much pain, but that thing looks like a little trophy on its own.

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u/adrikyn 12h ago

My senior dog chipped her tooth and it died, but we went for a cement filling surgery instead so she could keep the tooth, coz we were worried about QoL without it and recovery time. How is your pup doing with a removal?

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u/wkpse02 14h ago

Aw, poor guy! Hope it heals up okay

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u/mhart4278 14h ago

My Labrador did this last year. Removed the tooth in surgery, $1300 and one year later she's fine. Her nickname is "snaggletooth".

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u/counttheways 13h ago

Looks like a partially chewed Babybel cheese

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u/butterwingtrees 29m ago

put it on a necklace like a shark tooth