Placing cleaning agents and other chemical bottles on a high shelf or in a locked cupboard. Putting up small hazards, such as coins, paperclips, pins, marbles, and rubber bands. Using baby gates to block off rooms and areas that you do not want your puppy to enter.
Placing cleaning agents and other chemical bottles on a high shelf or in a locked cupboard. Putting up small hazards, such as coins, paperclips, pins, marbles, and rubber bands. Using baby gates to block off rooms and areas that you do not want your puppy to enter.
If you do not want to purchase a bed, then designate a few blankets as your puppy’s bed. Fold and stack them to make a soft place for your puppy to sleep.
If your puppy chews the wrong thing, pick up its toy or bone, go to it and take away what it has with a stern “No” and then give your puppy its toy or bone. When it starts chewing the toy, give it praise. If you don’t give your puppy something to chew, it will find something to chew. Puppies need to chew to help relieve their teething pain.
Good breeders begin vaccinations very early before the pup is ready to come home with you. Ask your breeder for its puppy vaccination records so you can give it to your vet. If you are adopting the puppy from a shelter, its early vaccinations should also already be taken care of, but make sure to ask! Puppies are often born with worms and may need to be dewormed by your vet. The breeder or shelter should have already done this, but ask to be sure.
Heartworm can be treated, but treatment is very expensive and the treatment itself kills the dog in about half the cases.
Keep in mind that a microchip does not work like a GPS device. It only serves as a way to identify your pet if it gets taken to a shelter. Some countries, such as the United Kingdom, legally require dogs to be chipped by 8 weeks of age. Check with your country’s laws and regulations to see if microchipping is required.
Ask your veterinarian or the breeder or shelter for a recommendation if you are unsure about which type of puppy food to buy.
For example, you could feed your puppy at 7 AM, 11 AM, 2 PM, and 5 PM. Continue feeding this way until your puppy reaches 14 weeks, and then switch to 2 feedings per day.
For example, try placing the bowl in the corner of the room where the puppy spends the most time. If you take your puppy outside to play, bring a bowl of water outside too.
When it wakes up in the morning After it eats When it wakes up from a nap After it has just finished playing Before bedtime Every 20-30 minutes when its awake
For example, if you are trying to teach a puppy to sit, use a treat as a lure and hold it up in the air to get your puppy to look up at it. When your puppy’s butt hits the ground, praise and pet your puppy and give it the treat. Then, repeat the activity while saying “sit” as you hold the lure. After a few sessions, your puppy will begin to understand that “sit” means to sit and that it will get praise by doing this.
The breeder or shelter should have already started socializing your puppy by handling, exposure to different smells, and toys. Ask the breeder or shelter how they started socializing the puppy so you will know what types of exposure the puppy has already had.
Everything your puppy experiences during this time will be forever imprinted in him. For example, if a man with a beard does something to frighten your puppy, this is not a positive experience. Expose the puppy to bearded men who provide a positive experience so it doesn’t grow into a dog who is fearful of, or aggressive toward, men with beards.
Make sure that you only allow the puppy around other animals that have been vaccinated.
