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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