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Originally Posted by rcooled

Be prepared to part with at least a few hundred bucks if you ever need to have her teeth cleaned. Dental care for pets will really put a dent in your budget.

Holy carp. We've got a mini dachshund. For his first 10-ish years, minimal money spent on teeth. Then we moved to an apt and his teeth got bad. I'm not sure if something in his chemistry changed because he was getting older (same food) or maybe when we lived at home, he'd chew sticks in the backyard. I think we probably spend $3k-4k on his teeth between 2 or 3 cleanings where he had several extractions and issues. I brush his teeth twice a day now, after breakfast and dinner (he doesn't much like it). I wish I'd started brushing his teeth years ago. He's only got about 6 teeth left.