Expert Puppy Information from professional dog behaviourists
"Puppy Care" DVD - NEW OWNERS GUIDE
Duration - 51 mins
Nothing beats the joy a puppy can bring to your life, but with that joy comes responsibility. Whether you have a pedigree or a mixed breed, the same general rules apply when caring for your puppy.
With puppy care advice from our dog experts we’ll take you through all the necessary steps to ensure that your puppy grows up to become a healthy, well behaved and much loved addition to your family.
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"Puppy care" DVD covers the following:
Dog breed & sex differences
How to choosing your puppy
Puppy proofing your home etc...
Establishing good habits
Importance of puppy socialisation
How dogs learn
Pens and basic puppy equipment
Barking and house training
Puppy classes
Puppy health and teeth care
Pet Insurance
Puppy exercise, grooming and feeding
Dog identification and neutering
Puppy and Dog Facts - Did you know?
Like people, all puppy's have different personalities and no two are exactly the same. For this reason, owners of new puppies or dogs will have to take time to get to know them, to build trust and to discover what actually motivates them.
Puppys are born blind, deaf and toothless.
During its first week 90% of a puppy's time is spent sleeping and 10% eating.
A puppy will sleep for fourteen hours every day.
Puppys are considered as adults at the age of one year. At this age it is as physically as mature as a fifteen year-old human.
At the age of three weeks a puppy will develop its sense of smell.
Dog’s nose prints are as unique as a human’s finger prints and can be used to accurately identify them.
If you have a mixed breed puppy, its important to understand what possible breeds of dog are in their background. This might give you clues as to what your puppy will be good at, and some of the problems that might occur in the future. Your puppy will show features of the breeds that have made it, and you need to be able to provide for all its needs.
When your dog barks, it can mean a variety of things. An excited alert bark may alert you to a familiar person approaching. A deep bark combined with a growl can warn you of a stranger approaching. Your puppy dog may even use a short quick bark to alert you of a need of some kind.
A dog’s smell is more than 100,000 times stronger than that of a human’s
