I have two puppies here from the same litter. Bites were fine at 8 weeks and fine three weeks ago. They are now 4 months old and I open their mouths to check bites and BOTH are off... I don't normally check at this age. Is this normal or ?? Completely heartbroken because one of them is probably the BEST puppy I have ever produced.... Thanks for any and all replies.
What do you mean "off" - underbite, overbite, wry??? How bad? Personally at 4 months puppies' mouths can look awful, but the lower jaw usually grows last, so if a puppy has developed a significant underbite, chances are lower that it will return to a normal scissors bite than if you have an overbite of some type.
Shudder - I never look in their mouths at that age! Until all the teeth come in the bites can be all over the place.
I agree Nancy. They should be looking at adult teeth after they're in fully. Not baby teeth at 4 months when they're ready to fall out. I look at baby teeth at 7 to 8 weeks and that's it until a mouthful of adult teeth.
Don't look ! Just know at 16 wks the teeth start to fall out and the mouth could look a hundred different ways. Might now eat a day or two, just wet it down good and know it hurts. Also, they say don't put a collar and train much at this age. It hurts and they don't know where the pain comes from. It may take, say to 7 months to really be able to see the true bite ?
One puppy bite is an underbite. And the other is level, almost an underbite. I am sick... Both pups had good bites, and now this... :( Has anyone had an underbite fix from this age to adulthood???
Yes, I had a puppy go undershot at 5 months. At 6 months it was back to scissor.
You should probably stop looking or your puppies will end up hating to have their mouth shown.
