Overbite by 8 month old female - Page 1

Hii someone know if there is something i can do to correct this ? i think maybe 5-6 mm overbite. Best regards

As far as I know there is nothing you can do. If the dog is a pet I don¿t think it should affect her too much, but for a show or potential breeding dog it will. At show I was at last year a judge saw this on an 8 month female and gave her insufficient, he did explain to the owner that there was still a chance it could correct itself, but that it would not be very likely at this stage. This puppy had had a normal bite when she was tatooed.

wait till 10 moth,s pm

Not likely, watch to make sure this does not result in the canines creating sores in her mouth.

Sweetie, I had an old timer German Shepherd breeder tell me years ago how to correct an overbite. We tried this method and it works remarkably!! Buy a huge knuckle bone or 2.Boil them an hour or so,or if you prefer you can give them raw,as I do in the cold weather to the dogs outside. Let the 8 month old chew constant on that big round knuckle bone as long as he wants.Make sure he dont chew it too small,if he does replace it with a big one again. The old timer explained to me that the bottom jaw is exercising and with this type of exercising it will grow to meet the upper jaw,and correct itself.It only works in pups still growing and I think you will be able to correct this because hes only 8 months. Make sure you get the big round end knuckle bones .we got ours at the slaughter house and froze the extras untill we needed them. hope this works for you,it sure did us.

Serious overbites will not correct. It is hard to know just how severe the overbite in your dog is without seeing a photo. It is true that while young sometimes the jaws can grow at a little bit different rate and create a very small and temporary overbite, but it is rare. A serious overbite will be a serious fault. Giving a dog a marrow bone (soup bone, or also called knuckle bone) is always something good to do to encourage chewing and muscle development, but it has little to do with actually causing a bone to grow or not. However, NEVER, EVER boil or cook a bone before giving it to a dog. To do so weakens the bone and makes it far more brittle and dramatically increases the chance that the bone will splinter. Splintered bone swallowed can easily cause life-threatening problems. I personally do not like frozen bones either as they too are much weaker than when fresh. If you must give a frozen bone, make sure you supervise the dog very carefully and take the bone away at the first sign of chipping or breakage.

I was referring to the knuckle bone of an adult cows leg.I always boiled mine for the inside house dogs and always took it away when chewed down real small,which very rarely were ever chewed down.I have never seen one of the huge round bones splinter actually with our dogs,and I am very much aware of how leg bones can splinter,EXPESSILY WHEN SAWED,WE NEVER GIVED SAWED OFF BONES.Only if sawed right to the ball,then then theirs no chance if splinter,in my experence.So we only get the big round end knuckle bones.Actually they are bigger than a big coconut!a dog can not even fit the whole bone inside their mouth. when we freeze bones ,I am speaking of storage ,as my butcher friend gave me 40 pounds or more of knuckles.these bones are as big as a coconut's sometimes bigger. I did not mean any harm intended to anyones dog,I just posted something that we have known for years,and never had ill affects. We give raw (huge) leg bones threw out the intire winter with both knuckles still on.these bones can be 2 ft long some times.and I always boiled bones that were for the inside house dogs.raw bones in a house can smell pretty ripe in a day or so.

I have a female that can devore a raw beef knuckle bone in a short time. She once got herself impacted because she found one that I missed picking up in the yard and ate it or most of it (I usualy let them have bones for a few hours then throw them away). Now she can only have the cannon or marrow bones. She doesn't seem to be able to break them at all, my guess because they are round and that gives strength. I only give mine RAW bones. And I watch "that little cookie" everytime! I am not sure if chewing a bone will help your pup with his overbite but it sure cannot hurt! I was under the impression if the bite was not correct by 8 months it would not change, but it would be really great if you kept us posted on this!

thanks for your nice replayes.i will tell you how it goes and yes i still hope for the best becourse she is really a beauty. Sweetie