A dog’s mouth

My Blondie had dental surgery recently because A. she’s old and her teeth are showing it and B. I am a bad mother who did not notice how extra rancid her breath was smelling until things were in pretty sad shape.

So she’s home now and has been on pain pills and looks fairly at ease. For some reason, this led me to think that I should look in her mouth to make sure all looked ok at the sites where teeth had been extracted and/or worked on.

So as she slumbered in pain pill heaven, I reached down and opened her mouth and looked in. It was about then that it occurred to me that I didn’t know what a dog’s mouth was really supposed to look like inside so how the hell would I know if it was good or bad absent an abscess so big it had it’s own blood supply.

Then I closed her mouth and took a nap.