6 Puppy care tips
For new born puppies, early care is of utmost importance. Proper care of their diet and nutrition, ample love and affection, behavior and training, all aspects taken care off at this stage can help in bringing up a healthy, well behaved dog. We have put together essential puppy care tips. Read on and adopt these tips while bringing up your pup.
1. Handle cautiously
Try to hold your puppy only as much as it is essential. Handle them when you find them in poor sanitary conditions or there is a need of feeding them. It is necessary to take hold of and raise them when they need to get warm. During the first two weeks of their life, they need your care while you handle them. Do not over handle them as it may annoy or upset their mother. Keep them warm, well-fed and unsoiled. Give special consideration to hygiene.
2. Adopt appropriate manner of feeding your puppy
At the age of one to three weeks, there is nothing like the mother dog’s milk. It contains all the necessary nutrients that are essential for a pup. But if due to any reason its mother dog is not able to serve it or you are looking after an orphan, then do take the suggestions from a vet. Consult him regarding what and in which amount you should feed your puppy. Puppies need to get fed from a milk-bottle or syringe, but this has to be done in an appropriate manner. You can also learn the way of feeding from a bottle by an experienced person. Incorrect and improper manner may harm it.
3. What to feed a newborn puppy?
During the starting three weeks of their age, nurse them with liquid feedings and after that you can make the transition to solid eatables. At this stage, you can start to incline the time-interval of feeding. Now you can use milk replacers and warm water, and can serve dry puppy kibble flooded in it. You can go with gruel as well. Give the different combinations of gruel in a day. At the age of seven months, you can decline the amount of milk replacer and can start enhancing the amount of dry kibbles.
Do not prefer any store-milk or cow’s milk. These replacers can cause diarrhea and can create trouble for you and your puppy. In fact, before using any prescribed milk-bottle available in the store that is specially made for puppies, consult the veteran.
4. Serve the reckoned amount of calories
The weight of your puppy depends on what and in which amount you are serving when it is starving. It is entirely up to breeding that may double or even triple the weight of your puppy. A healthy pup gains around 12 to 16 % weight of its birth which is necessary to survive as well.
5. What to do and what to evade?
To keep your pup warm, you can use wrapped water-bottle in a towel or can go for a heating pad. Give efforts to keep them warm. Handle them gently and tenderly. Do not scold or over praise them. Do not allow your children to handle them without any supervision of adults. At the age of three years, their teeth begin to grow. This is the stage for socialization so hold them in short span of time. Give proper vaccination to them, and a rabies vaccination can be given at the age of three months.
The room you are placing the new born puppy, should consist at least 70 degree F temperature. Avoid placing them to chilling floor. Look after if they are asking for help or are starving. Rough handling can put it in danger so beware.
6. Understand their behavior
During first week, they just sleep and grow while sleeping. The puppies are born blind and start to open eyes fully at the age of 2 or 3 weeks and begin to see around. And at this same age, they begin to hear. Try to understand their movements and whimper to know when they are hungry. A puppy's behavior is the refection of its mood and body state. Try to understand this.
