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My 12 year old girl Bitsy is going in for a dental in mid April (her first ever, plus her first ever time being under anaesthesia since she was spayed as a kitten before I adopted her!! I am super nervous) and I’d like to start brushing her teeth a few weeks after that once she is all healed and stuff. I know it’s a bad idea to start before, so I won’t do that. The vet says she will need a few extractions and that she suspects she has some resorptive lesions, so I would like to help prevent further issues for her once that’s all dealt with and her teeth have a clean slate so that she hopefully won’t need more cleanings under anaesthetic in the future when she’s even older.
Has anyone had success with introducing a senior cat to having their teeth brushed or did you try and they totally weren’t having it?? I know it’s something that is ideally started in kittenhood, but she is generally an easy to handle cat so I hope she’d be OK with it with a slow introduction/positive reinforcement. I started brushing my new-ish 10 month old kitten’s teeth and we are having some success with it, getting better every time, so I’ll hopefully have the technique down pat by then.
Has anyone had success with introducing a senior cat to having their teeth brushed or did you try and they totally weren’t having it?? I know it’s something that is ideally started in kittenhood, but she is generally an easy to handle cat so I hope she’d be OK with it with a slow introduction/positive reinforcement. I started brushing my new-ish 10 month old kitten’s teeth and we are having some success with it, getting better every time, so I’ll hopefully have the technique down pat by then.