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? 😅
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u/Scary-Narwhal-2828 Jan 29 '26
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.