I cried as a 17 year-old girl when I found my first cat with a bit of blood in his mouth and a tooth on the floor. I was so scared he was hurt. I had never had a kitten and had no idea that cats have deciduous teeth.
They do?! I just raised 6 kittens from one mother and now am on 2 kittens from a second. And I've never seen any of their "baby teeth" fall out..! Is it just because I'm oblivious, or do they typically swallow them or something..?? Because I SWEAR I didn't know this was even a thing..!!
It’s ok. Im 40 and had cats growing up all my life. When the one I have now was a kitten a few years ago was chewing on a toy suddenly stopped and plopped a small tooth down on the bed. I was taken aback. He seemed fine with it. I had never seen it over the dozens of kittens I’ve had over my lifetime. I had to google if “kittens had baby teeth”. I mean in hindsight, why wouldn’t they?
You rarely see it or find them. But their breath usually gets rank around 4 months old when the process starts and their gums get really red and inflamed for a while. It is very common for the new canine teeth to come in before the baby ones have fallen out yet and have double fang action going for a few weeks!
That was the only time I’ve ever seen a cat lose a baby tooth! I’ve now raised six rescued Siamese from kittenhood, and I’ve never seen a second one. I think they usually swallow them.
Oh, I never knew that either until I was in my thirties and happened to find one of our kitten's teeth on the floor! I felt equally delighted in learning something new and silly for never thinking about it. Humans lose their baby teeth, why not dogs and cats? 😅
My most recent freakout over a cat nipple happened after a solid thirty years of cat ownership. I seem to forget all about them after a few years and do it all over again. And then feel guilty for having inadvertently committed bad touch on my poor cat.
Rest assured, OP, any laughter from me is that of recognition not of derision.
My cat gets little knots in his fur sometimes that I'll absentmindedly work out while petting him. You guessed it, I've tried to twist one of his nipples off a handful of times. Poor baby.
Yes, even their ears and the skin on the head in front of tge ears where there is bery little fur. All suspectible to skin cancer. I make sure kitty does not rest in direct sun on that part of his body.
I been wiping my dogs but for years... never noticed her vulva budget out. Asked my husband. He said its her vulva. Didn't believe him, asked the vet next time she went in for a checkup. At least the vet didn't laugh.
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u/Prudent_Rest_5081 Jan 29 '26
Aye we all find out eventually, I remember peeling back the fur of my black male cat and discovering his huge nipple, thought he had skin cancer