Kemosabe Teeth Trimming
via animalwondersmontana:
New video about Kemosabe getting his teeth trimmed. Also a few of the other animals that needed some checking up on: Ash the chinchilla, Pearl the Columbian black and white tegu, and Joy the blue and gold macaw.
In the wild prehensile-tailed porcupines would naturally file their teeth down using their top incisors against their bottom. All rodents do this since they have ever growing teeth. Kemosabe had a nasty infection in the root of his incisor when he came to us and we had to remove the entire tooth. Since he only has one top incisor the bottom incisors don’t align properly and become overgrown.
I’m happy that this is something that we can help him with. If this happened to a coendou in the wild they would die from the infection in the tooth. Other than his visits with the vet for his teeth, Kemo is happy and healthy. Oh, and he loves bananas.
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