Comments on: Dental confessions: A brief digression

By: Putting on the Ritz

Putting on the Ritz — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 01:35:17 +0000

[...] I even did something I rarely do to get ready for the big: I got Frankie professionally groomed. (Before the give-up-your-cable-TV crowd jumps on me, I hasten to say that I got the grooming in trade for a couple of copies of Am I Boring My Dog that the pet boutique/grooming salon is selling. Unlike me, Frankie feels no shame at getting services for free. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, go back and read my last two posts, The cost of dog care: Where do you draw the line, where I got dissed in the comments section for wanting to keep my cable; and Dental confessions: A brief digression) [...]

By: Will My Dog Hate Me? » Blog Archive » Pride & Prejudice: Doggie Dental Version

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 17:10:08 +0000

[...] of my first experience getting Frankie’s teeth professionally cleaned, which I introduced a couple of posts ago. Frankie's tooth cleaning looms large in my mind (from [...]

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:13:52 +0000

I recently took my dog, Dash, to have his teeth cleaned. I, too, was shocked by the cost. And then the vet explained to me that the high price paid for the anesthesia – not really the actual cleaning. It would have cost almost the same amount to have his entire mouth cleaned as it would just to have a tooth pulled. Sigh.

By: Clare

Clare — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:37:59 +0000

Edie, this just shows that all things occur for a reason. (Ha, you know what a curmudgeonly skeptic and agnostic I am!) Which is to say that you are now the sage of teeth. You have a lifelong understanding of the issue, and the biology really is not very different between canines and humans (after all, we have canines). Thank you.

By: GoPetFriendly

GoPetFriendly — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:14:12 +0000

I had braces! That big ugly silver kind that captured a good portion of the food before I could swallow.