Hiya,
Don't worry - all sounds normal to me - Max went through the same at around the same time too! He started chewing & biting things & his breath started smelling 'bloody' & he was scratching at his mouth etc, poor thing!
The good news is that it only lasts a few weeks & generally doesn't bother them too much - he might go off his food a bit & possibly have a bit of an upset tum or runny bot, but nothing too major.
We used to soften Max's dry food, gave him plenty of hard chewy treats & chewable toys to play with & tons of ice cubes - he loved them! We were lucky in that we had a stretch of ok weather when he was teething, so I used to give him frozen ice cubes made with flavoured stock etc which he'd eat & chase around outside on the patio - bit messy for indoors!
You can buy all sorts of puppy teething toys which you freeze & someone recommended a wet, frozen, screwed up flannel which sounded brilliant but Max is a crafty git & when he discovered it wasn't food of any sort, he was disgusted with it!!
Don't be worried if you spot some bits of blood on his toys &/or some of his little teeth either on the floor or embedded in his toys/chews - it's perfectly normal - freaks you out a bit to start with, but it's ok!! We reckon Max must have swallowed most of his - we only ever found a few - we were woken up by the sound of him crunching on something one night & by the time we'd put the light on & checked him, whatever it was had gone, so we reckon that was a tooth too - yuk!! Doesn't seem to do them any harm though!!
Max had one last 'hanger on' towards the end of his teething which was really bothering him - it was so loose & it kept twisting round all over the place & he was rubbing his face on the floor a lot, so we decided to help him out & played a good game of 'tug' with his ropey toy one night & out it popped!! Bless him - he looked almost instantly relieved!!
Oh, one last thing - don't panic if Freddy's new teeth seem to be growing in next to his old ones which haven't fallen out yet - I freaked out when Max had this & took him to the vet who told me it was quite common & they'd only intervene if the old teeth were still there when most of his new adult teeth were in place!! (One of Max's old teeth looked 'dead' - it was grey - again, normal according to the vet - bless her - she must see me coming & think 'over anxious mummy' !!)
