By Neil Williamson
After you successfully potty train your pup, it’s not time to crate train them. When you crate train a puppy, remember that you are introducing a home for the mutt. With that in mind, you might want to build or create a crate that’s almost the same of his favorite hangout. That’s where your observation skills come in. No matter how cozy and beautiful the crate is, your dog will still prefer to stay in a place where the dog feels secured.
You can slowly introduce the crate to your puppy by placing food inside the crate of the puppy. There are owners who successfully crate train a puppy by just placing treats inside them. The dog will notice that a crate is one place that has lots of food and it’s also a perfect place to stay. You can also crate train a puppy like a treasure hunt. The puppies will go looking for the food they are introduced in and they will always find it in their crate. Before you know it, they will be staying in the crate more and more.
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When you crate train a puppy, it’s the best opportunity to introduce better manner and limit your dogs about certain actions. As of this stage, all you have taught your pup is how to urinate and poop properly. Crate training is a great way to teach discipline. If your dog is not behaving properly, you can tell them to go to their crate. It’s a great way to control them and through time, the dogs can just look for the place themselves.
Another good thing when you have successfully crate train a puppy is you’ll be able to give them a healthier environment. You can give them a cozier place compared to their traditional refuge. Cleaning up is also a breeze when you crate train a puppy. It’s a natural trait for a dog to clean up their surroundings especially their special place of refuge. They will never spoil this place and would rather urinate and poop in somewhere else. That’s why you have to partner the crate with a litter box. This litter box should be as much as possible a replica of their favorite spot. You don’t have to place the litter box 24 hours with the crate, it’s just enough that you place them with the litter box at night when the house is locked and they can’t just go out to relieve themselves.
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2007-09-24
2007-09-19
How to Treat a Puppy
By Neil Williamson
You are planning to bring home a puppy through adoption. It’s a very cute mutt that you wanted to keep him for good. But before you go ahead and bring the mutt home, you need to know how to treat a puppy first.
There are basically four things you have to remember on how to treat a puppy: food, vaccination, training and their proper place in the family.
If you have decided to bring a puppy home, you should give them food that is fit for their age. There are different kids of dog foods and they are divided into age groups. Since the puppy is very sensitive to the hardness of the food, you have to give them a food that’s fitting for them. Feed them thrice a day and control their food. Obesity is one of the biggest problems of dogs so we need to look out for their eating habits. When they grow older, they should be fed only twice a day.
The next stage on how to treat a puppy is proper vaccination. You should give mutt complete shots to ensure protection against various dog related diseases. The vaccination will start from the dog’s sixth week to his sixteenth week. This weekly shot will make sure than his body will have the proper immunity against common but deadly diseases. Rabies will also be controlled because of these shots.
You are planning to bring home a puppy through adoption. It’s a very cute mutt that you wanted to keep him for good. But before you go ahead and bring the mutt home, you need to know how to treat a puppy first.
There are basically four things you have to remember on how to treat a puppy: food, vaccination, training and their proper place in the family.
If you have decided to bring a puppy home, you should give them food that is fit for their age. There are different kids of dog foods and they are divided into age groups. Since the puppy is very sensitive to the hardness of the food, you have to give them a food that’s fitting for them. Feed them thrice a day and control their food. Obesity is one of the biggest problems of dogs so we need to look out for their eating habits. When they grow older, they should be fed only twice a day.
The next stage on how to treat a puppy is proper vaccination. You should give mutt complete shots to ensure protection against various dog related diseases. The vaccination will start from the dog’s sixth week to his sixteenth week. This weekly shot will make sure than his body will have the proper immunity against common but deadly diseases. Rabies will also be controlled because of these shots.
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Training is also an important part on how to treat a puppy. This stage will usually last for two months depending on the learning ability of your dogs in you training, you’ll be teaching the dog on when and where they should urinate and poop. This will take time and they will make mistakes but you don’t have to shout at them or hit them. All you need to do is to be assertive with the word NO to remind them they have done something bad.
Lastly is their place in the family. We acknowledge that having a dog means having a new member of the family. However, if we know how to treat a puppy the relationship with your mutt should be a teacher student relationship. Dogs need someone to tell them what to do. Some may have the mind of their own but they would still depend on someone to take care of them. That’s why even though we love our dogs; we still have to be strict on them on the things they have to do. Otherwise, they will just force their way to do the things that they want.
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