How to raise a new dog you have brought home and what to pay attention to, this is a problem that every novice will encounter.
What dogs eat, how much to eat, when to start getting vaccine , when to deworm, what toys to buy for dogs, what to do if they have diarrhea and vomiting, etc. Today, based on the growth experience of your own dog, let’s talk about raising dogs~
Things to note for beginners to raise dogs?
1. Observe and feed
puppies and take them home, especially dogs brought back from the kennel. Because they cannot find out the source of the dog, they cannot understand whether the dog carries parvovirus (usually dogs under six weeks of age are more likely to be infected) or other diseases. Therefore, when purchasing a dog, they need to negotiate with the seller to exchange, or directly do a small test for the dog before deciding whether to buy it. The dog that has been decided to buy and has taken home will be observed for a week. The puppies have weak resistance and must not take them out to play or take a bath. Within a week, observe whether the dog has vomiting, diarrhea, and depression. At the same time, equip the dog with complete living equipment, such as puppy food, dog kennel, and utensils for eating and drinking water. If the dog is healthy within one week (seeking medical treatment in time if vomiting or diarrhea or bloody stool), and eating, drinking, feces and urine are normal, it can be temporarily considered a healthy dog and feeding it normally. How much to eat
? How to eat it? It's a problem.
Take the feeding habits of your own dogs as a reference, and talk about my feeding experience (prerequisite: my dog is now five years old and has taken good care of it. He has never had minor illnesses or serious gastrointestinal diseases):
1. Buy a small bowl first, the size is shown in the figure. It is sold in the supermarket. It is a small bowl for children to eat
2. Pour one-third of the bowl of puppy dog food (the dog grows up and is also a stage where you like to eat, and it can be increased appropriately on this basis). First, use boiling water to pass a dish of water (removing oil), then soak it in warm water and then feed it to the dog (hard dog food is not good for dog teeth. When the dog is slightly older, that is, when the dog is four or five months old, you can eat dry dog food directly).
If possible, you can feed a sweet potato or egg yolk every other day, eat it alone or dress it up in dog food (egg whites do not digest it, so it is best not to feed it). According to this dose, if you eat more than one meal a day, it is best to control it within three meals to prevent the dog from overeating and causing obesity problems. As for the same sentence, if conditions permit, you can equip dogs with nutritional health products, such as dog gastrointestinal treasures or high-unit activation probiotics, such as calcium tablets, cod liver oil, and nutritional creams.
3. Cultivation of eating habits: Puppy training starts from scratch, just like children should start teaching from an early age, and develop good habits of eating (choosy or anorexia in the later stage is a headache, cherish this stage when dogs prefer to eat).
Own home instruction method: regular meal timing, constant temperature, quantitative, fixed point. Don’t bother the dog during the meal. The limited time is within fifteen minutes. If the dog doesn’t eat it, take it away directly. Place it where the dog cannot see it. You must not treat children like you, feed them and keep them, and you must not be accustomed to them. At the same time, to develop good habits, we must start from the owner himself. That is, when the owner eats, he needs to develop his own diet time. Do not let the dog surround the table when eating, and do not feed the food eaten by the dog people while eating.
2. Targeted feces, urine and vaccine issues:
Puppies do not hold back their urine. Urination and defecation are the norm at home and anywhere, and it is also the problem that breeders complain the most. The same is true for my dog.
I have bought shit and urine inducer, bought Internet dog pressing toilets and urine pads, and everything is futile. I have searched many related tutorials online, teaching airbox auxiliary tools, etc. However, each dog has different obedience, and it can only be called a tutorial online, which is not very applicable. In the end, it is a simple newspaper, which naturally solves the problem. That is, lay a few newspapers near the dog's kennel, spend time staring at the dog after the dog's meal, and when the dog is about to turn around and get to the excretion, he directly catches the newspaper, pointing his hand to the newspaper, telling the dog (although this is a bit far-fetched and treacherous, it is really effective, as if the dog can understand it) and let it pee in the newspaper. Try a few more times and you will basically succeed.Although you can make intermittent mistakes by chance and still excrete in the corner of your home, you will develop the habit of feces and urine in newspapers most of the time. As you get older, dogs will become more sensible, and the so-called excretion problem can basically be solved.
Secondly, you can walk your dog diligently. If the dog develops the habit of feces and urine, it will rarely excrete to the home. It should be emphasized here that when the dog poops or pee in an incorrect location at home, the owner will get angry, and even if it is worse, they will take the dog directly to the excrement, scold them loudly and corporal punishment. This will cause mental panic to the dog, and will cause eating your own poop. It will be very difficult to correct mistakes in the later stage, and I hope the owners will pay attention to it.
Vaccine injection:
Generally, the first vaccination is required at 6 weeks of age, that is, 42 days, (in case of uncertainty about whether the dog is vaccinated, antibody testing can be performed)
6 weeks of age first shot, 9 weeks of age second shot, 12 weeks of age third shot, and 15 weeks of age rabies vaccine injection (there are generally differences in time, just follow the doctor's advice). The content of the vaccine for your own dog is as follows:
vaccine injection, as directed by the doctor, after the first shot, there will be relevant vaccine documents. Doctors will generally indicate the injection label and time and the next injection time, and directly follow the vaccine time on time. After the vaccine is injected, it is normal for dogs to experience increased body temperature, depression, decreased appetite, pain and other problems, and generally return to normal after 1-2 days. Remember to bathe your dog within one week after vaccination to prevent your body's immunity from declining. (The serum antibody test after the last shot of the vaccine is often ignored, and doctors will not actively inform you. Those who are interested can try spot checks.)
. The last thing to add to the vaccine is that novices often ask, how many combinations of vaccines do dogs need to be given, can dog rabies vaccine be given with the last shot of the vaccine, etc. Let’s talk about the following couples of vaccines. Several couples are not a few shots, but a type of vaccination to prevent diseases. Secondly, the vaccine has a reaction period of about 21 days. During this period, the dog’s immune system must fight against the vaccine injected into the body. Therefore, after the last shot of the ordinary vaccine, it is best to get the rabies vaccine after 21 days.
3. Daily cleaning and care (if you have the conditions, you can ignore it if you often bring it to pet stores for treatment)
Dogs are like children, and they also need to put in some effort in care. Care for eyes, ears, oral and other care is also a relatively important detail.
Things to note:
1. Human-used washing and care products are not available. Because the pH and alkalinity of dogs and the formulas are different, blindly used will cause burdens and unnecessary abnormalities to the dog's skin. When taking a bath, you need to clean the dog anal glands . At the same time, blow dry in time after taking a bath. Do not use summer because the temperature is too high, many pet owners will directly let their dogs dry in the sun by themselves. This method is not advisable and can easily cause skin diseases such as mites. At the same time, let dogs develop the habit of cutting their nails since childhood. Blood lines grow with the nails, and excessively long nails can easily affect the dog's walking.
2. People can't use toothbrushes to brush their dog's teeth. Dog toothbrush toothpaste products are too expensive, and brushing teeth is easily overlooked by the owner, so it is often impossible to either not brush your teeth or choose to use a toothbrush if the dog's too expensive toothbrush products are too expensive. Dog oral care is very important. Just like humans, they are prone to periodontal disease and are in great pain. Dogs basically do not cooperate with brushing their teeth. You can buy glue, tooth rope or tooth stick for cleaning for dogs.
3. Clean the corners of your eyes every day or clean the dog's ears from time to time. Eyes are also more important for dogs. Observe the secretions of dog's eye bores and see if the dog has eyelashes that are inverted. Some time ago, a news article about the owner cutting double eyelids on the cat appeared on the Internet. After in-depth understanding, I found that because the cat's eyelashes are long upside down, cats' eyes are prone to tears and even risk of blindness after long-term stimulation. Therefore, it is particularly important to observe the eyes. Secondly, what can make perfect about ear cleaning, plucking ear hair, dropping ear oil, cleaning ear mites and .The special ear canal structure of dogs can easily breed ear mites in humid environments. Once the dog's ears are found to have brown, black or reddish brown secretions, use medicine to treat them in time.
4. Deworming inside and outside the body
In the early stage of raising a dog, I only knew how to deworm the dog internally. Later, with the reminder of my friends, I realized that there was also a saying of deworming outside the body. Because of the lack of knowledge about deworming, it is easy to cause incomplete deworming. It is recommended to directly find a local pet store, the kind that can see a doctor, and perform internal deworming under the guidance of a doctor. My dog usually has external Fulaien + intra-body dog heart protection. As for whether to deworm thoroughly, I have never been able to do so. I will explain in detail after consulting with a professional doctor.
5. Common diseases and treatment
1. Vomiting, diarrhea, cough: In the case of mild symptoms, such as the dog will not feel mentally depressed or blood-filled excrement, you can observe first and then determine whether to seek medical treatment depending on the situation. Fragile stomach and intestines of dogs are common knowledge that dog owners must know. If you are not careful, you will become acute gastroenteritis or easily cause problems such as small (for puppies). You can always keep gastrointestinal treasures or high-unit activation probiotics at home. When dogs have symptoms of vomiting and diarrhea, feeding powders to relieve the dog's condition, or use infant medicines, such as infant venom, , infant Jianpi San, , etc., and feed the baby dose.
2, mites and fungal skin diseases : For dogs, this type of skin diseases is relatively stubborn and can recur if they are not cared for each year. Among them, ear mites are the norm. Basically, they can recur if they do not pay attention to ear protection when taking a bath or do not pay attention to cleaning in daily life. Common ear mites for treating ear mites: ear mites can basically solve the problem. For reference only. Secondly, regarding mites or fungal skin diseases other than ears, the ointment used by my dog is as follows, which can solve basic skin abnormalities.
6. Bones cannot be fed, bones cannot be fed, bones cannot be fed, bones cannot be fed
For those owners who think that dogs only have a lifespan of more than ten years, eat as long as they want, and there is no problem with eating for the time being, can directly ignore this. Pig bones, sheep bones, and chicken bones cannot be given. For dogs with poor gastrointestinal digestive function, they may easily become acute gastroenteritis if they are not careful. It was a bloody lesson for me. Because I once fed bones, the dog vomited and had diarrhea and bloody stools. So I hope to attract everyone's attention. It should be said here that once the dog is found vomiting or blood-extracting, do not hesitate and send it to the doctor for treatment in time.
7. In order to be able to live in harmony with the owner, it is recommended to teach dog-related skills from an early age, such as sitting and lying down. Skills such as turning around, crawling forward, pretending to be dead, and you also need to develop the good habit of leashing out. Let’s focus on the importance of leash:
I often hear people say, “My dog doesn’t bite people.” I want to say that you are not your dog. You overestimate the dog's temperament. Once the dog has an injury incident, it will be too late to apologize and regret it. To yourself, not taking a rope without tying a rope. Need to be taken seriously.
or above are some of my thoughts and suggestions on raising dogs. They are for reference only and are not comprehensive. You are welcome to add them. Raising a dog is a way out. It is difficult for people to say clearly what the meaning of raising a dog is, but since you have raised it, you must raise it well. Raising the dog is also a very meaningful thing in itself, right?
Quotes a sentence from "The Secrets of Dogs" produced by BBC:
We have a very special relationship with dogs. Our love for them exceeds any other animal on the earth. It may be that dogs know how to distinguish our emotions, which makes their relationship with us humans very special.
Dogs are human best friends, and this friendship has risen to a scientific level. Some experts say: When you want to relieve the stress of your work, come on, bend down and caress the pet dog under your feet is the easiest way. So, when IT people can’t understand the organization of programs, creative people can’t write good plans, and reporters’ thoughts are confused when writing articles, it turns out that what we need is not coffee or chicken soup for the soul - what we really need is a dog.
I hope all dogs can be treated well, and the dogs will be happy~
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