If/When Your Dog Breaks a Tooth

No matter how much you try to protect your prairie dogs, sometimes they rush the door, and manage to fall to the floor (a good reason to avoid a high cage, if possible). Because of this, or even just chewing on the bars, a tooth might be cracked or broken. With any luck, they won’t…

When a Pup is in Pain

Prairie dogs have precious few ways to tell you when they’re in desperate need of something. Pups have even less. If they start gnashing their teeth, there is something seriously wrong, and you need to respond immediately. This is something I missed when I had my first prairie dog. She started making the sound with…