An Elephant for a Dog

I bought this elephant at a pet store last month.  It's too cute to be chewed up by a dog.

Tusks are enlarged incisors. Baby elephants are born with milk tusks the size of a human little finger. After a year, they are replaced by permanent tusks. They grow throughout an elephant's life - four inches a year for males; three inches for females. The two tusks are usually of unequal shape and length.

In African elephants, both sexes have tusks, although they're larger in males. In Asian elephants, tusks are primarily found in males; females either have no tusks or they're rudimentary.