Brush your teeth and get cleaned up for the week ahead! These animals answered the call of good dental hygiene. Here: Hamster holds toothbrush. (Photo by Neo Vision/Getty Images/Amana Images RM)





A woman cleans a greyhound's teeth with a toothbrush, 1955. (Photo by Harry Kerr/BIPs/Getty Images)





February is National Children's Dental Health Month, and here at the New England Aquarium in Boston, even Chuck the harbor seal gets his teeth brushed once a day by senior trainer, Erin Clark. They use malt for tooth paste and an electric brush, along with the manual one too. He also gets mouthwash and a treat afterwards – a fish! (Photo by David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)





A grasshopper proves an early morning surprise as it sits sunning itself on a toothbrush on a bathroom window sill on September 8, 2012 in West Hoathly, Sussex, England. (Photo by David Cannon/Getty Images)





A Maine Coon Cat gets his teeth brushed while looking in a bathroom mirror. (Photo by Ryerson Clark/Getty Images)





Brushing a yorkie's teeth. (Photo by Liliboas/Getty Images)





Pig brushing teeth, close-up. (Photo by Digital Zoo/Getty Images)





Pembroke welsh corgi dog licks a tooth brush and tilts its head to the side. (Photo by Paul Park/Getty Images)





Female Syrian hamster brushing her teeth with toothbrush. (Photo by Pyza/Puchikumo/Getty Images)





A volunteer uses a toothbrush to clean an oil covered white pelican found off the Louisiana coast and affected by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico at the Fort Jackson Oiled Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Buras, Louisiana, June 9, 2010. (Photo by Saul Loeb/AFP Photo)





Volunteer Samantha Emmert brushes the teeth of LuSeal, a harbor seal, during a show August 7, 2010 at Woods Hole Science Aquarium in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The aquarium, which features non-releasable seals, fish and animals of the Northeast and Middle Atlantic waters, and touch tanks where you may find lobsters, tautogs, quahogs, horseshoe crabs, spider crabs, sea stars (starfish), and hermit crabs, attracts thousands of tourists during the summer months. (Photo by Don Emmert/AFP Photo)





Elephant “Mogli” holds a giant toothbrush at the animal park Hagenbeck in Hamburg, northern Germany, on September 27, 2011. (Photo by Angelika Warmuth/AFP Photo/DPA)





Maine coon cat dental hygiene. (Photo by Ryerson Clark/Getty Images)





Zoo keeper Paul Kybett cleans Nicky the Pygmy hippopotamuses' teeth with a new giant (5ft) toothbrush at London Zoo on July 20, 2006 in London England. The Zoo's two hippos, named Nicky and Thug, have a pink and blue toothbrush respectively and to celebrate the arrival of the new toothbrushes, the zoo is holding a half-price entry “Don't Forget Your Toothbrush Day” on July 23. (Photo by Claire Greenway/Getty Images)