If that fantastic moment has come when you have decided to expand your family with the incorporation of a puppy. Congratulations! Now your life will be filled with more love and joy, but surely you will also have doubts about how to take care of a puppy from the appropriate form. Are you ready to learn everything you need to know about taking care of puppies? It will take you a few minutes to read all this information, but you will learn everything necessary for your little dog to grow up healthy and happy, guaranteed.
Choose the most suitable puppy for you and your home
If you are going to acquire or adopt a puppy, remember that not all puppies are the same, since each type of dog or breed has specific characteristics and these must adapt to your environment. If you live in a small flat or apartment, it is best to adopt a small puppy, since a large breed puppy can feel uncomfortable due to the lack of space when he grows up. Remember that puppies grow very fast. The climate of your area is also very important, if you live in the South of Spain where it is always hot, it is not recommended to adopt a dog adapted to northern climates, such as an Alaskan Malamute or a Siberian Husky. If you live in a family environment, choosing a puppy with a calm character is recommended so that both the puppy and the children are safe. Avoid adopting a very active, nervous or dangerous breed dog. Adopting a Pinsetter puppy (like a small Doberman dog) is not the same as adopting a Great Dane puppy (a very large dog). Remember to decide properly and you will not have problems in the future.
Prepare your home for the arrival of the puppy
Taking care of a puppy requires taking certain precautions in our home, to avoid getting hurt or suffering an accident. It is something similar to when there are small children; the puppy will try to play and bite everything, so we must prepare ourselves and make our home a safe place for the puppy. It is essential not to leave cables or electrical devices within reach of the small puppy, the puppies are very innocent and very curious, playing they can nibble on a rope and get electrocuted by accident. The same happens with chemical products as the utensils that we usually use to clean our home. Or if we live in a country house and have rodent traps, we must remove them so that the puppy accidentally eats the poison. Remember that puppies pee and poop anywhere, so while they learn to do it outside the home, we must collect rugs that are valuable to us, because they inevitably end up pissing on more than one occasion.
Prepare a space at home for the new puppy
Puppies are susceptible to diseases, parasites, and climatic changes. That is why they must live with us in the home at least until they are adults if we choose to leave them outside in the garden they can suffer serious health problems. We must prepare one or two beds for our puppy at home, is recommended to put a bed where we live, how in the living room, and the other eats in our office, next to our bed. The foundations of our puppy must be very comfortable and cosy, it is useless to put a towel or an old cushion on the floor because the dog will not feel comfortable. Try to choose fluffy beds, where you feel happy.
How to feed our puppy
Your dog’s health is directly related to the quality of the food we feed him. If you do not invest in the quality of their food, sooner or later they will get sick, and you will have to spend on veterinary expenses.
Feeding a puppy less than three months old
Puppies with a life span of fewer than three months should be forced to feed on breast milk, through their mother’s breasts. It is the healthiest and healthiest way to eat.
The feeding of an orphaned newborn puppy should be based only on special milk for dogs, which we can acquire in veterinary clinics. Dogs should not drink cow’s milk because it contains lactose and will cause illness and diarrhoea.
Puppies are usually weaned after three months of life, so we can start adding a little exceptional dog food, always moistened and making a kind of puree or porridge with it, to make it easier to digest.
