so sadie is here with me to give you guys some pet updates
starting with the cats back in February we took the base paws DNA cat test to find out what breed groups
Sadie and JJ are a part of but also got to see how their oral health is
so in April after Sadie and JJ's yearly health exam at the vet, my vet concluded that it would be best for Sadie
to get a dental cleaning because of her gingivitis
so we went ahead and booked that and my vet actually had reached out to me and asked if i had wanted
to spend the day at the vets observing all of the surgeries as well as filming sadie's dental for you guys
it was such an awesome experience and i liked being behind the scenes at the vet
seeing how everything gets done so now on to sadie's dental
Trigger Warning: footage includes cat under anesthesia, tooth removal and teeth scaling, (feel free to skip to 2:52)
in order to do the dentals sadie was first put under general anesthesia
prior to this she had blood work done to ensure that there weren't any underlying issues so the
first step was for them to take x-rays of all of her teeth cats have 30 teeth in total and the
x-rays can help show if there are any bone loss, fractures, tooth root abscesses, impacted teeth,
tooth resorption, extra roots and tumors so getting the x-rays done is super important because it can
see something that you wouldn't see just by the naked eye
Sadie actually only has 29 teeth because she had a premolar removed a while ago due to it growing in the wrong spot
and causing irritation
cats actually have two tooth roots so if the tech is able to fit their probe between those two roots which is called a furcation
this isn't a good thing luckily Sadie did not have any of those
you can though see the red line on Sadie's top gum line and this is an indication of gingivitis which
is why Sadie is having a dental
Sadie also had another tooth removed this was one of her back molars which is extremely tiny
and this brings her down to only 28 teeth
so after the x-rays and probing and tooth removal they can begin to scale the teeth to remove the excess tartar
if we were to just leave Sadie as is with her gingivitis it could eventually lead to tooth loss,
bone infection and bacteria entering her bloodstream
so it's important that she gets this cleaning done
while i was observing at the vets an elder dog came in who actually had to have all of their teeth removed
with the exception of two teeth because they were so rotten
and this is why it is so important to look after your pet's teeth
once the scaling was done the teeth then get polished and after that Sadie was done and she recovered great
i'm so excited because we actually get to see if Sadie and JJ's oral health has improved after brushing their teeth daily
with cat safe toothpaste and after the dental
by using the Base Paws oral health kit
so back in February JJ had a medium risk of periodontal disease with a score of 5.89
he had a low risk of tooth resorption with a risk score of 1.51
and his risk of bad breath was also low at 2.86
now for today's results his risk for periodontal disease is now low with a score of 1.01
his tooth reabsorption is low with a score of 1.05
and his risk for bad breath is also low coming in at zero
now for Sadie's results back in February, she was at a high risk for periodontal disease with a risk score of 8.27
for her tooth resorption, she also had a low-risk score at
1.62 and her risk of bad breath was high with a score of 8.06
as you can see Sadie's teeth are much worse than JJ's
so for her results now she has a medium risk of periodontal disease with a score of 3.56
so it has significantly went down
her risk for tooth resorption is low at 3.28
so it has gone up i'm not quite sure why but it is still a low risk
and her risk for high breath is still high Sadie has always had stinky breath
and she has a score of 7.38 it has gone down slightly but
Sadie just always has had bad breath
so by using the Base Paws oral health kit every couple of months this helps give you a baseline of how your cat's teeth are doing
since JJ is here with us right now i can kind of give you a little bit of an update on him
because we went through a little bit of a fear period
a couple of weeks ago i woke up from a nap
and JJ was absolutely terrified of everything in the house
he was scared of things that were there for months and weeks and he was scared of just
everything and he hid under my bed for two days pretty much, i was having to feed him his food under the bed and i had to bring the litter box
into the bedroom um i don't know what the cause was i wish i wasn't napping but
it is what it is he is much better now there are still some things that spook him but he isn't staying under the bed 24/7
i also wanted to quickly show you guys my elephant ear plant that i got recently
look at this-this is a brand new leaf that just put out it's like already massive and i can't wait for this thing to grow
huge um for those of you who really like plants
and plant videos i'm going to be doing an updated plant tour video within the coming weeks so look
forward to that
you want this fenugreek? oh wait give some Lola
there you go don't steal it
so here are the bunnies they are doing pretty well as you can kind of tell Lola's a little
bit better now but you can see her like little molting patches she has been shedding like crazy
guys don't steal it from her mouth look i'll get you
here's another piece
you guys like fenugreek hey oh it's good
here share with your sister
share with her
and Cleo recently had to have some mats cut out from her bum that i hadn't noticed and
i had to have a friend help me thankfully i was able to hold Cleo while my friend was able
to cut and kind of brush them out
but they were very sneakily underneath her butt area
and Lola look at these little i want to pull these hairs that are just hanging by a thread but she
hates it
Cleo- Cleo has a couple too
let's see
oh there we go there's one oh leave her alone
look here have your own fenugreek look look look
they love fenugreek you guys
and look who else is awake actually it's like 7:40pm.
mr mans
so speaking of mr manz who wants to come out
let's see
It recently was his birthday on july 5th come here
and i made him a little cake and everything so i'm going to insert that footage right now
so Mabel's not quite up just yet but i did want to add in some more
bedding to her enclosure because there's some areas that kind of just need some more
um and when i set up her cage i didn't have any left so this is the full cheeks paper
bedding in white this is what i use for Mabel for Dipper and Waddles they've got the full cheeks
brown bedding why i use brown versus white it look-i don't know it- they- I just do it like that
oh hi miss maam
hi you coming out
come here
good morning
so Mabel came out to say hello she was just in her burrows i could hear her so she was already awake
hey so you guys always ask me where i got this play toy for the hamsters this is made by living world they no longer make this exact one
mine's a little destroyed i don't know if you can tell
Mabel making the great escape while i explain things to people
listen up miss
you can't do that
but i actually found some very similar ones on the american amazon
so i went ahead and ordered them they came in a pack of two
there's this smaller one that opens both these
Mabel are you putting on a show
and then there's one that has like it opens like this and it opens like this
which i'm excited about so each of the hamsters is going to get one of these tonight to play with
let's start with Mabel
you guys are so cute look at them laying together
oh the the stretch of a lifetime
use your brain
see you almost did it
oh there you go
there you go good job Mabel
there's just some black oil sunflower seeds in there
there you-ohhhh see she's too smart for those ones she just
flicks it right open
all right on to Dipper let's see he's done this before on the other one so
it should be oh okay
you know what to do
it should be fairly straightforward
this is why the old one is very chewed up mainly because of Dipper
you guys are way too smart for these puzzles
i need to get something a little bit harder
okay that's that's not part of the
the thing
so it is 9:40 p.m and Waddles has finally woken up as you can tell he's a a later
mabel! he's a later riser than the syrian hamsters and that's okay
but i am going to give him
his enrichment toy he gets this bigger one
because i think this is easier for him to kind of flip
do you want it i don't know if you're gonna even use it cause you're so small
okay
go check it out whoa
he's chewing it like what
close but that's not exactly how you're supposed to open it buddy
look you move this like this
there you go yeah use your teeth
wow you did it
good job so
if you are interested in seeing more Waddles i definitely would recommend checking out his what
my chinese hamster does at night video
because he does some pretty interesting things
he gets up to a lot of burrowing, foraging, chewing, digging all that jazz
oh yes oh my gosh
a literal genius i actually wasn't expecting him to get it at all because he doesn't really like boredom breakers
so kind of shocked
yeah push it
you are definitely my softest hamster
chinese hamsters feel like no other
he's like mother please stop touching me
i'm sorry oh is this in the way
there you go oh you got it
okay well i think that is it for today's video and updates i hope you guys have
enjoyed seeing all of the animals
and i will see you in my next video
say goodbye
bye