Bye-bye baby teeth

A beloved dog toy around our house is the empty plastic milk bottle. We drink a lot of milk, so we have an empty every few days, and when we rinse one out and toss it to Tucker and Dionne, they get a lot of pleasure out of batting it around and chasing each other for possession of it. We can't let them keep one for long, or they chew the plastic into shreds that cut their gums. But for a few minutes, it amuses them. 

Yesterday I thought I'd blown it when, just a minute after doling out a freshly empty bottle to Dionne, I noticed it was finely coated with blood. Then I realized what had caused that: Dionne has been shedding her baby teeth right and left. They look like this: 

And their loss is a bloody business.  At another point yesterday, I found patches of blood all over Tucker's head, from the same cause.

Steve, the resident tooth-brusher, thinks Dionne only has one or two of the little guys left.  This should come as a huge relief to Tucker. She still loves to chew on him, but the bigger, rounder adult teeth hurt less.

Happily, teeth were the only thing she deposited around the house today. Yesterday morning, despite all our restrictions and confining her to an easily digestible diet, Dionne vomited yet again.