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Missing cat teeth? Anonymous
Hey /an/, this little orange bastard is my cat Zeek. A couple of months ago I noticed while playing with him that he's missing some teeth. They're on the bottom row at the front between his canines. But you know, to make this post I had a look at his mouth again to make sure, and it looks like he's missing teeth on the top too! To me it actually looks like there might be more growing in, but I'm not sure. It might just be where they used to be.

Anyway... He's too old to be losing milk teeth (Google tells me that by 6 weeks they should have their adult teeth, and he's about 3 years old now). Can anybody tell from this picture what's going on? You can see the one tooth left on the bottom jutting up and either some stumps or some new ones growing in, I can't tell.

He's a drooling cat in that ever since kittenhood he kneads his paws on me and drools profusely when happy. I haven't noticed anything that might point to gingivitis, and vets in my area will tell you an animal has gingivitis just so they can charge you $250 to sedate your animal unnecessarily... But if Zeek has a problem I'll take him to the vet! It's just that I can't tell what I'm looking at in his mouth ^^;
>> Anonymous
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Here's a more flattering pic lol.
>> Anonymous
My cat's mouth looks something like that, too. She's an orange tabby. She is also 18-years-old, which explains her tooth-loss.

If you're worried, you need to take him to the vet and not some retards on 4chan. Period.
>> Anonymous
>>345676
But the thing is, I'm not really worried. He's eating fine, he's happy and mischievous. I'm just wondering if these retards can report anything similar and maybe give me a clue as to the cause!
>> Anonymous
The teeth look a bit weird i guess, but other than that I don't see anything wrong. The drooling would worry me more than it's teeth. Doesn't look like it's got gingivitis either, it looks rather good actually except for that one sticking out weirdly in the bottom.

He's got all his front teeth by the way, 2x6 incisors (upper and lower, between the big canines). Looks like his jaw just might not have closed entirely in the middle (normally in early developement, the two sides of the face grow towards eachother from the sides), sort of like a very mild case of a 'harelip'/split palatum. That would maybe explain the bit of room between the middle two incisors at the top.

As i said, wouldn't worry about it if the cat still eats fine. He probably doesn't have much use for those little teeth anyways, cat's mostly use their canines and molars to eat.
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>>345678
Ah, so you think all his teeth are actually there? The one sticking out at the bottom made me think that they're all meant to look like that, and he was missing some! The info about there being 6 teeth top and bottom was very helpful, thanks.

... What a weird set of teeth he's got then! And I'm not worried about the drooling, lots of cats do it and he's done it since he was a kitten. :3 It's just gross and inconvenient lol.

I may ask the vet about his teeth next time I have plenty of money to spend though. But that's not right now!
>> Anonymous
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jshe65EE0So > kittycat
>> Anonymous
>>345682
Nah I didn't mean that you should be worried about the drooling, as it's probably not really interesting for his further health anyways. Just meant to say that the 'problems' with his teeth are probably even more insignificant.

And yeah I do think he's got all his teeth, it just looks like for some reason they didn't all pop out very far. Why exactly that happened, I don't know. Seems far from concerning to me though, so yeah, I'd just maybe ask about it the next time visiting a vet for a regular checkup or something, definitely not worth going to a vet just for that. Just keep a look out yourself for anymore changes, but the fact that you even noticed something like this tells me you'd probably do that anyways.
>> Anonymous
He's fukken adorable.
>> Anonymous
>>345674
what a wincat! He looks so full of character =3
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>>345881
>>345713
:D
>> Anonymous
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>>345914
=D in return for whoring ur kitty for us, i offer you Yuki!
>> Anonymous
>And I'm not worried about the drooling

Yeah, cats drooling when they're happy is just one of the occassional oral fixation things that get left over from kittenhood at times. If that's the only time he drools, it just means he didn't get to nurse enough with his mom or something like that.
>> Anonymous
>>345990
Oedipus complex?
>> Anonymous
>>345990
Well I had the sudden thought that maybe my sister found him abandoned behind someone's house because he had this suspected palate/harelip problem and he couldn't feed properly..? But I'll never know :3
>> Anonymous
>>346081
Im the anon who posted before. As I said he might have had a verrry mild harelip type thing, but this case is far from bad enough to make it hard for him to drink.

And the paw kneeding is just what a lot of cats do, especially cats that have been taken away from there mother a bit soon. One of my cats used to slobber al over my sweatshirts too if i let her.
>> Anonymous
>>346091
Yeah, I understand what you meant about the dribbling thing now - from your first post I didn't though! I wonder if others might feel like taking a quick photo of their cat's teeth for my own edification..?
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He's handsome!
If he's eating fine and doesn't seem to be in pain, his breath doesnt smell too bad (only if it smells rotten, cat's don't floss so a bit of smell is ok) then there's probably nothing wrong :) His teeth look very healthy in fact, a little wonky but they do look all there.

My grandmother got given a cat who had all his teeth removed due to gingivitis, owners didn't want to pay £200 so left him in the car park, but his breath stank and he drooled a lot, his gums were rotting.

He now eats perfectly fine with no teeth, and it's cute when he gums you.

Pic related, toofless berty, he now has GINGERvitis, ho ho ho!
love marmie splattered kitties.
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>>346097
Oh lawdy, he's gawjus XD Looks like he's just removed his collar and is all, "Don't try that with me again muddafuddas."

I took my other cat in recently for treatment of an ongoing bladder problem (nobody wants to tell me exactly what it is but it has something to do with feline lower urinary tract disease. Basically she's got to be fed a special food for the rest of her life, which may or may not be shortened because of it. But anyway, they told me she had gingivitis. I think they were full of shit, but I paid the huge amount to have her teeth cleaned (no teeth removed, no noticeable change in behaviour). I'm not one of those anons that has to be prodded into vet attention, I just suspect their motives a lot of the time. :( I wish I didn't have to.

Now they tell me my cats should have their teeth brushed several times a week... Wtf :/ I can't get them to eat chicken necks, so I might have to resort to that, but it sounds like it's rather unnecessary to me.

Here's both of em!
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>>346096
Yeah sorry, I sometimes explain things a bit vaguely.

Not my own cat, but pic is a pretty much 'ideal' set of teeth. Compared to yours the upper teeth don't have the spacing in the middle, and there is no portruding tooth in the lower section. That's about it, and none of those are really something to worry about.

>>346100
You're certainly right to question them sometimes. It's kinda the same with human health care, you expect they know what they're talking about so you almost have to trust their judgement..
As for brushing, my vet also recommends it somewhat, though more for dogs than cats. He recommended me to just rub their cheeks over their teeth to help clean it a bit, and recommended feeding more dry foods instead of meat.
I study veterinairy medicine and I don't think even there they have reached a concensus about wether it's really necessary or not.

I myself don't brush my cats' teeth, and have only had slight problems with one of my cats. She developed quite some plaque, which had to be removed, but she didn't have gingivitis. With my other cats (3, and 3 more which have died fairly early) I have never had any problems whatsoever, maybe except for just a liiiitle bit of plaque now and then. I feed them dry food as well as flesh, but almost no extras.

From my personal experience, I'd say just check their teeth regulary. If there's a lot of plaque forming, you might wanna get it cleaned before it gets more of a problem. If the gums start turning red, maybe even bleed now and then, you should really visit your vet soon.
>> dylan ford
Well my cat got hit by a car and lost song teeth when she was like 2 but I dont know about this it looks like a defect or growth problem to me. Don't worry about my cat she's tough as hell.