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Puppies

Puppy Protocols: Introducing a Young Dog Into Your Family -- Introducing a puppy to your home can cause a lot of upheaval. You might need to move furniture and make your home dog friendly, or just change your lifestyle to make sure you are available to exercise or feed your new pet, when she needs it.
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Your Puppy Won't Use Her Crate? Our Expert Tells You Some Inside Secrets -- Many people view a kennel or crate from a human perspective - a cage, or prison. Yet, if it is properly introduced, a dog crate provides a sense of security for your pet; a place of her own. At the same time, a dog that is comfortable in a crate is easier to housebreak and travels well.
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Cultivating Good Behaviour In Your New Puppy -- The most crucial aspect of house training a puppy is to teach it how to remain clean in the house. Dogs are not shabby by nature - they would normally urinate and defecate away from their sleeping and feeding area.
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Puppy Training: What Type Of Collar Should Your Puppy Have? -- Whether the concern is to train your dog or impart an identity to it, dog collars and leashes play a crucial role. Dog collars come in a variety of shapes, sizes and styles, and are much of a fashion statement nowadays. A dog collar could be a lifesaver for your puppy if, God forbid, it disappears from your residence.
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Buying a puppy? We give you some tips to help you make the right choice. -- We have all walked past the pet stores and seen the cute puppies for sale. How sweet they look, don’t we all want one? However, when you see a puppy for sale, never buy one on impulse.
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Playful Puppies -- Puppies are just so cute and irresistible. Not many can resist there charm. A child will see one and will probably soon be asking their parents if they can have one.
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Puppy-proof Your House -- You must first "puppy proof" the area in which the new puppy will spend most of it's time and then the rest of your home, outside included. There are several considerations you must think of first to make sure that nothing unwanted happens to your things or to your puppy.
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How to Stop Your Puppy from Biting -- Puppies are like tiny tornadoes. They are so full of energy and joy that it sometimes takes a bit of work just to keep up with them or clean after them. They never cease being cute and adorable even when they start biting, which is a problem, considering that it's not the kind of behavior you want to encourage and you have to stop your puppy from biting.
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Nutrition for Your Puppy -- The mother's milk provides the puppy with all the nutrients and antibodies he needs for the first four weeks of life. You can introduce moistened puppy kibble around the age of four weeks. This will be introduced to the puppy as he continues to nurse. You may feed the puppy his kibble twice a day as long as he is still getting enough of his mother's milk.
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Behavioral Training for Your New Puppy -- It has been shown that obedience training is very important for a puppy and behavioral training is just as important. In some puppy/dog training camps, behavioral training is considered to be training a puppy/dog to be "good" or "well behaved". In other training camps, behavioral training is considered to be "correcting a puppy/dogs bad behavior". For the sake of arguments, we will describe behavioral training in this article as training a puppy or dog to be well behaved as in house training and good manners when around people and other animals.
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Health Problems in Puppies -- Because their immune systems are still being developed, newborn puppies are very susceptible to health problems. To prevent the possibility of infection or other health problems, puppies must be well cared for. Here, we will go over some of the puppy health problems that can occur.
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