What to look out for when raising a new puppy

Can’t take a bath

The dog just came home, and many owners want to wash the dog immediately and hold it in their arms fragrantly. But taking a bath is a must for a baby who has just returned home. The puppy has just returned home and will not adapt to the new environment. At this time, the resistance is very weak, and it is easy to cause respiratory infections after bathing. In severe cases, it can cause pneumonia, and may even kill the baby.

If the puppy is dirty, you can restrict the area of activity, or use a pet shampoo

to clean it, but remember not to get wet all over the body, otherwise it will be too pitiful to take injections and medicines when you are sick.

Forbidden to go out

Why is it forbidden to go out? The vaccine has not been completed, and the puppies have not produced enough antibodies and have no ability to resist infectious diseases. Once they go out, there is a very high risk of contracting major infectious diseases such as canine distemper. These diseases are extremely harmful to puppies. Parents Be careful.

Drink enough water

Prepare clean containers, the water should be fresh and clean, if the weather is too cold, parents should Let the puppy drink warm water.

Pay attention to keeping the puppies warm

The puppies are weak and should avoid getting cold in the cold weather. Parents should prepare warm puppies for them. mat.

ensure adequate sleep

puppies sleep for a long time, most of the time sleeping, parents should not call them Wake up, especially if there are children at home, the puppies must keep enough sleep to be healthy.

Inject the vaccine on time

The injection time is about 2 months old. At present, the better vaccine brands are British Tweet, Merial, Pfizer, etc., parents can choose according to the doctor’s advice, and must complete the whole set of vaccines on time.

Deworming on time

Deworming is also very important. Must pay attention. Deworming is divided into surface deworming and internal deworming. The common body parasites in puppies are fleas and lice, and the internal parasites are roundworms and tapeworms. And solve.

Observe the puppy’s ear canal and skin

Under normal circumstances, the puppy’s The ear canal is free of odor and secretions, and the skin is pinkish-white. However, because the puppies have not been bathed after birth, the ear canal of some dogs will be very dirty and smelly, and there will be a lot of brown secretions, especially dogs with long hair in the ear canal, such as Poodles, Bichon Frises, Schnauzers, and some dog skin Rash, itching, ulceration appear. If parents find such a situation, they should take the puppy to seek medical attention in time.  

Healthy diet

Choose high-quality puppy dog food, and soak the dog food in an appropriate amount of warm water in advance when feeding. Feed three to five meals a day. If the dog has leftovers, it is best to discard it, and do not save it for next time, so as to avoid the bacteria produced and cause the dog to have diarrhea. Parents can add goat milk powder to puppies to enhance nutrition, but don’t drink milk, and can’t eat human table food, otherwise it will hurt the dogs’ intestines.

Let’s focus on the foods that are not allowed to be fed to dogs (young adults need to be fasted):

1. Do not eat green onions, onions, garlic and other foods. Because these foods can cause acute hemolytic anemia, the clinical symptoms of dogs are vomiting, diarrhea, depression, red or reddish-brown urine, and even death.

2. Don’t eat chocolate. Dogs are very sensitive to the caffeine and theobromine in chocolate, and there are no enzymes that decompose caffeine and theobromine in dogs, so they will accumulate in the body and cause poisoning. When the body content exceeds 200mg/kg, it will cause neurological symptoms.

3. Do not eat grapes, because eating grapes will cause acute renal failure in dogs, which may cause death in severe cases.

4. Do not feed foods high in sugar, fat and salt. High-sugar, high-fat foods can easily make dogs fat, and obesity can easily induce a series of diseases, such as fatty liver, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, coronary heart disease, etc., which damage the sports, circulation, reproduction and other systems. These diseases will threaten the dog’s life as the dog enters old age. Excessive salt intake by dogs for a long time increases the burden of renal excretion and affects the health of the kidneys. At the same time, the imbalance of various minerals and vitamins in the body directly affects the health and resistance of the skin, causing various skin diseases.

5. Bones of various animals, corn cobs, some hard foods. In fact, a lot of dogs eat their food whole, and they eat them without chewing much, especially in front of their favorite foods. At this time, these hard foods may not be digested, and they can only be removed by surgery. .

Parents’ feeding methods are related to the health of dogs. In order to make dogs grow up healthily, parents should be as careful as possible.

Warm reminder: Click “How to raise dogs can help dogs grow up healthily” to learn more about raising dogs.

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