Who knew that a cat needed to have his teeth brushed? I mean really, really, really needed to have his teeth brushed -- especially a diabetic cat who has excess sugar in his body, and apparently diabetic cats have lower immunity in their mouths and therefore have a higher chances of getting tooth and gum disease. I didn't know. Did you?
The bottom line is that having your cat's teeth extracted is costly. And now my cat needs to get a job. Are you hiring? He's really good at looking out a window, rolling in cat nip, and playing with glitter balls in the middle of the night.
On Friday I came home from work, and for no good reason I looked at my cat's front teeth. NO GOOD REASON! What normal person looks at her cat's front teeth??? (Oh hello, have we met?) Well, I found that one of those four little top ones was hanging down like a fang, and it was wiggly. Very. Wiggly. So on Saturday I took him to the vet, where I was told that he needed 4 teeth removed, possibly 6. Yesterday I picked him up after his surgery -- 7 teeth had to go. After having a handful of teeth extracted two years ago, this is leaving him with not so many teeth. My poor cat needs dentures, that is, if they made dentures for a cat.
Cross Posted @ Thoughts Outside My Head
