Your new puppy should have 28 milk , temporary, deciduous, fall out teeth.
Those teeth erupt around 3 weeks of age, and by 8 weeks your puppy should have the full set of deciduous teeth-28.
There are 6 incisors (small front teeth)
2 canines (fang teeth)
6 premolars (3 on each side)
All that on top and bottom jaw.

Full set of puppy teeth
These baby teeth , although sharp, are brittle and fragile, and can easily break.
A broken puppy, or adult tooth, can easily lead to an infection; many times not even visible, since the infection forms around the tip of the root.

No no toys for puppies:

* Do not use any toy where he could break his baby teeth.
* No toys, where his little teeth can get stuck in, no hard bones, or cooked bones.
* Do not let your puppy play with a tennis ball over an extended period of time.

Saliva of your puppies mouth sticks to the ball very easily. Ball then drops in the dirt and dirt loves to stick on the hairy ball. the tennis ball becomes a sand paper, and it will slowly wear the teeth away.

April 28

The pups are growing well; their eyes are just barely beginning to open although they can hear noises now. I spend time each day with them, doing the little exercises as well as just holding/petting them for fun. They are relatively calm pups at this point and sleek & healthy. The brownish hairs in their coats will, I believe, turn grey - Solo's coat was similar to the one on the second pup in this group and he's all grey now.....some lovely heads on these pups!

Solo and his mom Una out playing in the creek!

Happy Easter! Here is a little video clip of the pups at a week old. They are active and hearty eaters! Trouble's being a great mama, taking great care with them and keeping them warm, fed and clean.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNsV8eY-_vQ&NR=1

I'm feeling a bit more human this morning having finally gotten some sleep; I will see if I can go through all the reservations and see what we have for requests ie: males/females, etc. If you would prefer a pup from Birdie's litter, please let me know now.

First pup born at 5 a.m. It's noon now and there are 9 ~ all dark and vigorous. In the meanwhile, a pdf for you.

Trouble is hanging out in the house now, waiting until she whelps...a boring life, she thinks! I've speckled this image in honor of the inch of snow we awoke to this morning!

Day 56

Tomorrow is the first day Trouble could have her pups and have them viable...she doesn't appear to be thinking anything of the sort ~ I tried to get her to stand so you could see how she didn't plump 'out' but rather 'down' but she looked like a hangdog so I decided to toss her collar and get some action pictures!

Trouble is due to have her pups in about a week! Here's a link to her page on the Briarlea Bouvier website