Puppy Breath
Written by Deb on August 16th, 2009
Puppies at age 4 weeks
We have a litter of Labrador puppies here, born on 7/12/09 so thought I would share a couple of photos of them.
Everybody always talks about the sweet smell of “puppy breath”. If you haven’t smelled it I really have no way to describe it to you but any dog breeder knows what I am talking about. So what causes this delightful (to dog lovers anyways) smell that only lasts a short time? The theories I have found say that vets guess that puppy breath is a result of their healthy, mild diet of mother’s milk and then puppy food, and the enzymes that break the food down.
Sleeping pups, age 4 weeks.
Since puppies don’t eat “big dog” or table food, they don’t have “big dog” mouth bacteria or the plaque problems older dogs develop so their mouths are clean thus no bad breath.
Can’t you just imagine the puppy breath just looking at these sleeping babies?
More information and photos of our sweet pups can be found on our web site.
Oh Deb they are so cute!
Thanks! We think so. So far they are all pretty even — will be hard to decide which one to keep.
Oh my, those are too cute for words. Brutus just turned 1 year on 8/31. I was feeling hopeful that his puppy gnawing/digging days were drawing to a close but then I see that picture. I get all mushy and nostalgic.
The first one left for her new life today (Miss Pink — Miss Purple is our pick girl)– very hard to see her go. This litter has been such an easy litter to raise. Summer is definitely a nice time to raise pups.