my neapolitan had started a very promising show career just before her pregnancy,during a rough play fight with my rotti she has managed to knock out her bottom left canine tooth and i have had the remaining root removed.Otherwise ,unless you look very carefully into her mouth she looks and acts no different.Do you think i can still show her as she does not have any other faults,and the tooth came out in an accident?? i have a letter from my vet explaining the situation??

You need to send your vets letter to the KC to ask for permission to show, because the operation was to repair the damage done in an accident then you should get that permission.

The judges will make up their own minds as to the relative importance and they may ask how it happened or if the dog was born like that. Or they may not notice, I know of a very high winning dog that was born with a tooth missing. Some breeds put a lot of importance on the teeth and the arrangement of such, you will know if that is so in your breed but I doubt it as the teeth, from an outsiders point of view, are a little untidy anyway.

As long as you can tell that the mouth is correct and the missing tooth was due to an accident I don't think that you wd. have too many problems. It's always the way that you top dog always ends up doing something that affects their showing!!!

I had a dog knock a tooth out and as in our breed there are a lot of mouth problems it was held against him. At the time I was showing two similar looking dogs and the judge at one Champ show who had not looked in the mouths of any other dogs made a great show of checking my young dogs mouth. He then commented 'oh I thought he had a tooth missing' Question@ how would he know that?' I then showed my older dog and this time he found what he was looking for and did not place the dog. The laughable thing was he had given the dog a Best Puppy in Show at a Club Champ show and he hadnt had the tooth then either. After he knocked another tooth out he was only a few more times but he was'nt getting placed. The trouble is to a judge it is an obvious fault and it is one more they safely not place.