Your puppy should have the next inoculation as recommended by your vet.
Take a stool specimen with you to the vet for examination. Make sure you feed large breed puppy brand food.
After age one you should switch to adult food. Fresh water should always be available to your puppy.
Bath as needed with puppy shampoo; towel or blow dry very carefully, do not allow the puppy to get chilled.
FEEDING
We suggest feeding 3 times a day.
At this point in your pups life, free feeding is not recommended. You should feed your puppy at the same time each day.
Leave food down only about 10-15 minutes.
If pup doesn’t eat or just plays with food, take away until next feeding.
If puppy eats all food offer more at the next meal. This will help in housebreaking.
No dog treats or in-between snack's should be given during the housebreaking period.
HOUSEBREAKING
Housebreaking, in theory, is very simple.
It is finding a means of preventing the puppy from doing his/her duty in the house and giving the puppy
only an opportunity to do it outside. Think positively!
To housebreak a dog is to teach them to relieve him/herself outside of the house.
It is not to teach the puppy that you become angry when it relieves him/herself indoors
We suggest Crate training:
- Confine the puppy to a small area or crate when you are not at home and at night when you are sleeping.
- By confinding the puppy, you are conditioning the puppy not to relieve itself until it leaves the confined area.
- Feed puppy at the same time each day.
- Walk puppy at the same time each day and at the same spot.
- Do NOT correct the puppy for a mistake unless you actually catch them in the middle of it!
- Give lots of praises when puppy gives the correct response!
CONFINEMENT
The
confinement is crucial because dogs are animals who do not like to foul
the area in which they eat and sleep. By confining the puppy, your are
conditioning the pup to not do anything until pup leaves the confined
area. The only time the puppy should be confined is when your not home
to watch him/her or at night when you are asleep. This area should NOT
be used for punishment purposes! You want puppy to feel relaxed and
comfortable when you are around; the puppy will not feel this way if
everytime the puppy dose something wrong you confine it.
The area or
room for confinement should be very small. It should not allow enough
room for the puppy to relieve itself and be able to walk away from it,
sleeping in another area. You may want to buy a crate. Most pet stores
sell them. The crate should only be large enough to stand up, turn
around,
and lying comfortably. You can buy a large crate and just partition it
off while in training. Puppies will learn that the crate is their den.
The door should be left
open when you are not confining your puppy, so the puppy can go in
crate if it wants time to itself. Never pull puppy out of crate,
that
is your puppies safe spot.
Remember when you are at home, puppy should
be loose and always in your eyesight. This will always give you a
chance to correct the puppy should it have a mistake. The first few
nights will be the hardest. Walk your puppy before you go to bed. Place
puppy in crate. You can add a towel or toy. Let puppy cry itself to
sleep. It may wake up and cry, but make sure you leave puppy in crate
for at least three hours. After three hours if puppy is sleeping, let it sleep
and take it out to the bathroom when it wakes. If it is awake, take
outside to bathroom.. Put it back in crate and let it cry. You must be
consistent. Puppy should be sleeping through the night in about one week.
Three hours is the crate limit at this time. As the puppy gets older, you can add one hour to time for each month.