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  • Thurber's tail: How to survive your sharp-toothed puppy

    TomPurcel|Sep 13, 2023

    The bloodshed was everywhere. It was all over my house, my parent’s house, my neighbors’ houses and splattered at any location in which anyone dared to pet my 9-week-old bundle of joy, Thurber the yellow Labrador. I was desperate to stop Thurber’s reign of puppy-toothed terror, but how? Why Are a Puppy’s Teeth So Sharp? Puppies, like humans, are born without teeth, but by the time they are 2- to 4-weeks old, they start growing “deciduous teeth” — the sharpest blades known to mankind. In the wild, razor-sharp teeth are needed to help puppies...