Puppy Guidelines
Welcome to your new chapter in life with a wonderful companion.
If at any time you have any questions please feel free to ask, if we fail to know the answer to your question and feel that we don’t have an adequate answer, we are more than willing to call our Veterinarian or our Vet Tech.
Currently your baby is being wire cage trained. Your puppy sleeps all night in a wire cage, with toys, blanket and a little music playing in the background. When leaving your home and if you are not taking your puppy, place your baby in the cage, making sure they have had time outside before putting your puppy up for a nap.
We started house breaking at 5.5 weeks of age. This is our program in place; the puppy is carried outside as soon as we greet them in the morning. We never let their feet hit the floor before going outside [after being in the cage for any period of time]. When you are home please keep the door open on the cage as your puppy will love to go inside the cage to take naps and to play with toys.
House Breaking:
Your baby knows the word “outside” and “potty” as the term to go outside and he/she will run to the door of your choice. Please use the same exit and entrance until your puppy is about five months old. Take the puppy out as often as you feel necessary, any time your puppy has his/her nose to the floor snooping it is time to make a trip outside. Being consistent will always help the process go smoothly.
Feeding as follows:
Kirkland Lamb Rice and Vegetables [ all natural purchased at Costco] and we do treat with oranges. One or two slices of fruit are plenty for the baby at this time. In about two weeks you may fresh steamed veggies and rice to his food just a couple spoonfuls, three or so times each week.
In the warm months please keep water available for your puppy or adult at all times, but at night you can remove the water. Same applies to food, we keep dry food available for our Cotons at all times, with the exception of taking the food up at or around 6:00 PM. This helps with the house breaking as well, additionally removing the water an hour or so later, [ but not in the warm months] then we keep water down at all times. Since we live in the desert we are accustomed to always having plenty of water available, as we only have 10% humidity, so dehydration can come on suddenly.
The Cotons are not predisposed to over eating, if you decide to keep food down just make sure to monitor their intake.
The process of serving food and water to your puppy or adult dog is all in part of the bonding process.
We ask that you continue the cradle hold with your puppy, well into their youth.................again this makes for excellent bonding and is all part of training the puppy that you are the boss or "alpha".
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