What Food Your Puppy Will Be Eating
And Accesseries Your Puppy Will Need
This is Millie. She is Punk and Snicker's pride and joy.
She lives with her new family in New York, and I hear she still loves her treats.
Uey's Homeraised Puppies
Dunnellon Florida
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Below is a list of the foods your puppy will be accustumed to. I keep the dry food down at all times. Twice a day, I give puppies under 4 pounds canned food. Do not change their diets or you could make your puppy sick, especially the tiny chihuahuas. If your puppy ends up with a stool problem, it is nice to know there is a serious problem instead of blaming the problem on a change of diet. The smaller the puppy, the more likelyhood of causing severe problems with diet changes.
Pedigree Canned Puppy Lamb And Rice or Chicken Formula
Purina Pro Plan Canned Puppy Food, or Mighty Dog (canned food twice a day and no gravy)
Chicken Jerky strips from Sam's Club or Wal Mart (favorite food)
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As far as toys and accessories go, your puppy will need plenty of chew toys. Avoid stuffed animals that have eyes and noses. The puppy will rip them out and possibly eat them. Also avoid rawhide products. I never like to listen to warnings, but when it happens to my dogs, I learn real quick. Rawhide will and does get stuck in the intestines of dogs and puppies. I learned the hard way when I had to rush one of my dogs to the emergency hospital, and they found a piece of rawhide in her intestines. My dog almost died and I had to pay almost $900 in vet bills. I keep NylaBones with them at all times. They love Nylabones, and Nylabones are very durable. Stuffed animals are great for the smaller puppies too. They not only play with them, they also use them as pillows. I like to use blankets for beds rather than some of the beds you can buy in the stores for puppies. I have went through hundreds of beds because they either pee on them or they chew them up. They especially like to chew the beds that have a foam bottom. Avoid those types of beds. If you can see foam when you turn it upside down, do not get that bed. They will eat the foam, and it could get lodged in the intestines.
As far as crates are concerned, I basically hate crates. I have dozens of crates here because I need them in the winter during the night, but I would never house train a puppy strickly by using a crate. That is extemely abusive. I know I would not want to be locked in a crate all day and all night long. I would not want to be locked in a bathroom all day and night either. I know all too well that you cannot just let a puppy run the house. I confine my puppies with either a baby gate in the bathroom so they can see out or a playpen like the one pictured below. I perfer the playpens. You can use them with or without the swimming pools on the bottom. If you have tile floors, you can open it wider and not use the swimming pool. I keep them away from the walls though. The puppies will stick their little noses through the openings and chew holes in your walls.
I find that keeping dry food down all the time is best for growing puppies. I put canned food down in the morning and in the evening, but do not mix it with the dry. If your puppy gets stressed out, he/she may not want to eat. YOU HAVE TO MAKE SURE THEY EAT!!!!!!!!! Stress causes the bad bacteria in their gut to take over the good. If this happens, it can hit them harder than parvo and can kill them within 24 hours. This is the main reason I do not let my chihuahuas leave here until they are nice and strong. If you take a tiny little thing like that and stress them out, the stress can kill them. Anyone that sells young super tiny chihuahuas is taking a big risk. Certain enzymes and vitamins help fight off the bad bacteria and causes the good bacteria to flurish. I make up a mixture of nutrients and give it to my puppies twice a day. I will provide you with enough of what I use to mix in with the canned food when you pick up your puppy or when he/she is shipped. If your puppy is not eating enough, get him or her a bag of Chicken Jerky dog treats available at Sam's or Wal Mart. My dogs and puppies love these more than any food. The cute little puppies will actually get physical with each other over them. I give them to all my dogs and puppies at least twice a week. Each puppy comes with a sample bag of dry food. The bags I use are my Chicken Jerky bags or a bag that had other treats in it. Each bag is a very big bag from Sam's Club. I save all the bags and use them to put the dry food in to let my customers know that I am not just talk: My dogs really are spoiled rotten. Not many kennel owners spend 150 a week on treats, but I do. It is worth the money just to see how excited they get.
Here is a tip for getting your new puppy to go potty on the newspaper. It can edventually be wee wee pads, but the puppies are used to newspaper, and it works best at first. The best thing to do is put him in a confined room where the paper is. You will have to keep him there a lot for the first few days until he establishes where he needs to go. He goes on the newspaper (big pieces) only if he is in a confined area. Once you open the area up, it takes a while for them to learn where to go. If you catch it soon, he will be a good boy (or girl of course) and use the paper. If he starts picking his own spots, he will want to continue to do things his way and you will have a problem. I would get a baby gate and put the newspaper (puppy pads work even better) in the laundry room. After a few days, he will know this it his spot to go. Keep in mind: when dogs and puppies finish eating or wake up, they usually have to go to the bathroom. This is the best time to confine them in the room. Since they are used to confined areas, it is best to continue this at first in their new home. Once they see that you are the boss and this is where they need to go, it is where they will continue to go. Letting them run all around your house lets them decide where they want to go and makes training a LOT harder. Once they are going on the paper all the time, you can open up the gate, and the little baby will walk into the laundry room to go potty.
NOTE: To prove to my customers that my adults all get treats each day, I cut up 4 empty bags and in front of each customer when they buy a puppy. These large treat bags cost me about 10-12 dollars each. I do it to let everyone know that the price they are paying for their puppy helps go towards doggy treats to keep the parents of their puppy happy. I also send the torn bags with each puppy I ship. In other words, I spend a small fortune on dog treats and prove it to my customers.
This is how the back of my suv looks after a trip to Sam's Club.
I believe ALL dogs deserve treats, even kennel dogs in a breeding program.
Sure, I could give the $400 or so I spend a week to Louie Vuitton, but
this is more fun for me. I love watching my dogs all munch on their treats each day.
It is the highlight of my day, and if I could not continue to do it, I could not breed dogs.
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