Hi Wendy - thanks for this - I feel very relieved - I was starting
to think I had bought a bad one and its my first one!
You know what, I got her into the yards over the weekend and was
going to take a picture of her jaw alignment so I could examine it
closely in my own time - without stressing her too much as shes not
all that happy with people [I am working on that!].
Anyway, I found a large abcess on her chin- underneath. Its well on
the way the healing but I hadn't noticed it - probably because she
is black and easily spooked?
Now I am thinking, maybe thats why she was holding her jaw/lips etc
in such a way to expose her teeth.
I will watch now as she heals up.
Mandy
--- In AlpacaTalk@yahoogroups.com, "Wendy Edwards"
<wendy.edwards@...> wrote:
>
> hi - here's another thought about visible teeth - i bought a 6
month old male who looked absolutely perfect - by 9 months old his
teeth protruded and there appeared to be a widening gap in the upper
lip - one of our girls had prominent "baby teeth" that came out when
she was about 2 1/2 so i wasn't concerned about this boy's teeth
right away - But as he got older i became very concerned, as he
seemed to have a very odd mouth - to make a long story short, i
called the man i'd bought him from and explained the situation and
my concerns - he asked me to bring my boy back to his farm - he
called in a very knowledgable alpaca vet who examined my boy and
said "nothing to worry about - nothing wrong" - his bite is in
perfect alignment - his teeth did not need trimming - he said some
alpaca's are born with a perpetual smile. My boy is two years old
now, and sometimes he has his "bugs bunny smile" and sometimes he
doesn't -
>
> Has anyone else ever run into this?
>
> Wendy
> DreamWeaver Alpacas
> BC
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