The tooth replacement process of Shiba Inu:

About 20 days: the dog starts to grow teeth.

4 to 6 weeks old: The dog’s milk incisors are all the same.

When a dog is close to 2 months old, all of its deciduous teeth are straight, white, thin and pointed.

2 to 4 months old: The dog replaces the first deciduous incisor.

5 to 6 months old: The dog begins to replace the second and third deciduous incisors and deciduous canines.

After 8 months of age: all dogs have permanent teeth.

Precautions for Shiba Inu teeth changing:

1. Improve Shiba Inu’s diet

During the teeth changing period, Shiba Inu will feel pain and appetite will be higher than It usually decreases a lot. In addition, it is difficult to chew food during the teething period, which increases the burden on the gastrointestinal tract, which can easily lead to gastrointestinal indigestion, thus making the Shiba Inu's appetite even worse. The pet owner can no longer feed it as before, but can enrich its diet structure, make the food delicious, stimulate the Shiba Inu's appetite, and make it appetite. Therefore, pet owners can add some easy-to-chew and delicious food to dog food, such as egg yolks, shredded chicken breast, tofu or vegetables, etc. If the pet owner usually makes homemade food for the Shiba Inu, he can cook some lean meat porridge, millet porridge, chicken porridge, vegetable porridge, etc. for the Shiba Inu.

2. Feed digestion powder

Since it is not easy to chew food during the teething period, food that is not chewed into pieces will be difficult to digest, resulting in Shiba Inu's stomach ache. There is accumulated food in it. When this happens to the Shiba Inu, it is also one of the reasons for its poor appetite. Therefore, pet owners can first fast for half a day or one day to see if the Shiba Inu is better. If the situation still does not improve, then they can feed it some digestive powder to increase its intestinal digestive enzymes and beneficial bacteria.

3. Do more exercise

When pet owners are free, they can play more with the Shiba Inu at home in order to consume part of its energy and make it feel hungry, thereby causing it to eat less. desire. It would be better if the pet owner could take it outdoors for exercise when the weather is nice. This way, it can not only exercise, but also get some sunshine to promote calcium absorption.