| While I have owned a lot of dogs over the years | | | | as long as you keep the temperature area remains |
| and they have all always been a very important part | | | | comfortable you will be OK. If you are building a dog |
| of my family, when I recently found myself getting a | | | | kennel please make it waterproof as there is not |
| new puppy for my family I was reminded of the | | | | much worse than wet and cold blankets for your |
| basics needed in choosing a new puppy. I have given | | | | new puppy. |
| you a quick list below showing some of the do and | | | | Please remember that dogs are pack or family |
| don't that you should remember when choosing | | | | orientated animals and that you should consider this |
| yourself a new puppy. | | | | when placing or choosing the future bed place. A dog |
| Here is the do and don't list below | | | | or puppy is more comfortable being near you than at |
| Love and attention | | | | the other end of the property. Be warned though |
| Please remember that a young puppy needs a lot of | | | | that any bad habits you teach your puppy in the |
| love and attention and the more attention you give | | | | beginning will be hard to retrain later. |
| to this puppy the easier you relationship will be in all | | | | Pay attention |
| aspects. This love and attention should immediately | | | | Remember that your puppy is just a puppy and has |
| incorporate all you training aspects from the very | | | | to learn a lot of things, and if you do not keep a |
| beginning. Both good and bad things that the puppy | | | | close eye on developments you could end up with a |
| does need to be commented upon, and trained into | | | | few disasters on your hands. Details like the safety |
| the puppy gently and with love. A puppy is a very | | | | of the puppy around children or swimming pools are |
| apt pupil and will respond to both the "good dog" and | | | | the same as you would need to consider if it was a |
| the "bad dog" comments readily. | | | | human child. But remember that the puppy is more at |
| Toys | | | | risk than any small children that are playing with the |
| A puppy is going to need a lot of toys to plat with | | | | puppy. It is not unheard of for a child to kill a small |
| and to chew on, and the more you supply to the | | | | puppy. |
| puppy the less of your home will become chewed up. | | | | Scheduling |
| You will find some great toys at your local pet shop | | | | Toilet training is a task that is much easier to control |
| and these toys are likely to become favorites of the | | | | if you stick to a schedule. Food and eating schedules |
| puppy if you play along with the puppy. | | | | are equally better handled if controlled. A puppy will |
| Comfort | | | | generally eat 3 to 4 solid meals a day, and if you get |
| Please remember that your new puppy is just the | | | | into a routine where you take the puppy to a toilet |
| same as a small baby and needs a warm and | | | | area after eating and when the puppy wakes you |
| comfortable sleeping area to call its bed. It does not | | | | should find problems are minimized. |
| really matter if this bed area is inside or outside and | | | | |