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Puppy Care After Your Purchase

Health

Your new puppy comes with all vaccinations and worming current to the age of your pup. The general schedule of medications is as follows:

• 21 days: Worming.

• 31 days: Worming.

• Between 5 and 6 weeks: Fecal exam.

• 8 weeks: Fecal exam and 1st 5-way booster vaccination.

• 10 weeks: Fecal exam and 2nd 5-way booster vaccination.

• 16 weeks: 3rd 5-way adult vaccination and adult rabies shot.

• 1 year: Annual booster shot (your discretion) and rabies.

Temperament

Your new puppy will have experienced all age appropriate socialization while at our kennel. A few of the things we do are as follows:

• Stress exercises between 3 and 16 days including temperature and position change.

• Noise stimuli.

• Different surfaces.

• Interaction with lots of different people.

• Visits to training day.

• Visits to Pets Mart, Wal Mart and Home Depot.

Your puppy will need to be taken EVERYWHERE! You need to expose the puppy to as many different sounds, sights, surfaces and people as you can before 16 to 20 weeks of age. This is a critical period where the puppy learns almost all of its socialization. Once you get passed this period of time, the pup is pretty much finished as to what it will be able to take as an adult. Lack of socialization in this breed is one of the number one causes of poor temperament in pups who 'should' be strong and stable.

All interactions need to be positive. If you see the puppy begin to show some hesitation or fear of an object or situation, stop and ignore the pup. Walk slowly up to the object or situation and try to call the pup up to it. If he comes, praise him if he doesn't, ignore him. DO NOT praise a pup who is acting fearful, this will only serve to reinforce the poor behavior. Remember, startling or reaction to things is normal, its the recovery time you want to watch. In well bred puppies, it should be minimal.

Food

The pup should be fed a good quality food with a protein level of 26% or below. Avoid foods with corn or other non meat fillers as one of the first 2 or 3 ingredients. You want to only feed the pup enough to maintain a healthy, lean weight. The slower a pup grows, the better and bigger is NOT better. Watch the pups rib cage. You should see a good bit of rib, but not hip or spine bones. Leaner is better, but not unhealthy. Almost always feed less than it says on the back of the dog food bag. Also, avoid puppy foods. Its unnecessary and often too high in protein.

Ear Cropping

If your pup came with its ears cropped, it may need to have the stitches removed. Call your vet and make an appointment within 10 days of the crop. DO NOT EVER USE ACEPROMAZINE WITH THIS BREED. Also make your vet aware of the sensitivities this breed has with anesthesia. He should only use enough to put the dog to sleep, not what he may think the pup needs. After the stitches come out, the pup may need to have the ears taped. Put something in the ear about the size of your middle finger then wrap tape around it a few times. Leave them taped for 3 days and remove. Repeat if they fall down.

If you need your pups ears cropped, here are instructions and pictures. Tell your vet to find the folded flap of skin that is about 2 or 2½ inches from the top of the head. Move up the ear about another ¼ inch and that will be the length of the crop. For the bell of the ear, use a Doberman pattern and cut on the outside of the pattern instead of the inside.

Here are a few pictures.
 

Length too short. Bell too short.

Length too short. Bell good.

Length good. Bell too short.

Length perfect. Bell perfect.

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