cavimom
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My Lily is about 4 months old and I am trying to gather more information on overbites. Here is the situation - when I was talking to the breeder we ended up getting Lily from, there was no mention of her bite issue. The day we were to drive 4 1/2 hours to meet them and pick her up we got a call (3 hours into my drive). They had just returned from her vet visit and found out that a) she has a hernia (no big deal to me) and b) she has an overbite. The vet marked it as severe. I was not too worried when I saw her as it did not look severe to me and I didn't think it was much to worry about. When I got home and took her to my vet they suggested teeth pulling. I read all around this site and saw ho most say let it be as things sometimes correct themselves and why pull yet. So, I decided on that. Especially since one of the vets said something about pulling 8 (EIGHT!!!!) teeth and seeing how her jaw grows. I just couldn't do that to her. That is a lot of teeth at once, and she was eating just fine. I am just wondering if I made the right decision. Wait? Do something now? Do something later? She is in no pain and seems oblivious to the bite problem. Any thoughts?