01)----------How to Pick a Healthy Puppy

Most of the time when people have a dog, they will buy it from a pet store. However, there are repeated unpleasant experiences of newly purchased puppies being unhealthy. Even when prospective dog owners bring their puppies to veterinary clinics for checkups, it is sometimes difficult for veterinarians to accurately assess the true health of a pet without enough basic information about the state of its living and eating during a clinical examination. The author would like to summarize ten easy-to-follow selection guidelines to help prospective dog owners identify puppies with low health risks.

A normal appetite, eating, drinking, playing, sleeping, and defecating are the four major needs of a puppy's normal growth. Puppies that have just changed environments, foods, or are experiencing motion sickness may temporarily lose their appetites. However, puppies that are severely dehydrated, have latent illnesses, gastroenteritis, or are in pain may also lose their appetite. Prospective owners should take a wait-and-see attitude when this happens. Ask the store clerk about feeding times and then schedule a visit to observe the change.

Two, no nasal discharge pets cold, sensitive nose or upper respiratory tract infections will be nasal discharge. After being infected by bacteria, the secretion will turn milky, yellow or green pus. In addition there is food squirting out of the nostrils, which indicates over-eating and problems with the swallowing mechanism or a congenital structural defect.

Three, no coughing dog cold, sensitive throat, cloudy air environment, bronchitis and bronchitis can make the puppy cough. A severe cough combined with a lot of phlegm can lead to a loss of appetite and poor nutrition.

Four, moderate body fat and thin body has always been used to measure the nutritional status of the traditional indicators. When you are thin and physically weak, your immune system will naturally be affected, making you susceptible to disease and slow to recover.

Two points should be mentioned in particular:

(1) The fatness indicator is the body under the coat;

(2) A big belly is not necessarily fat. Normal fat and thin of the puppy's chest ribs should be covered by muscle, fat on average, not easy to clearly touch one by one. If the hand gently dial, the chest has been washed shirt version of the obvious bump, even if there is a longer hair, the dog is also too thin. In addition, the thickness of the muscles on the back of the belly can also be used as a guide.

Fifth, the eyes bright eyes cornea (the front part of the eye) is transparent, so that people can clearly see the color of the eye pigment layer. Hepatitis virus can cause the cornea to turn blue; a foreign object in the eye or trauma can cause the eye to swell and close up tightly or the mucous membrane (the white part of the eye) to turn red or the cornea to turn white. Infection with distemper virus and other ophthalmic agents can lead to abnormally high eye secretion and pus.

The hygiene of the puppy reflects the quality of the environment and care. Many infectious diseases and parasites are transmitted through urine and feces or body fluids. So getting covered in poop can increase the chance of exposure to pathogens. Even if the puppies are kept separately, the chances of gastrointestinal upset will increase if they lick the dirt.

Seven, no pain if the puppy does not eat and only focus on the side of the curved back moaning, we have to especially check whether the belly pain. Belly pain is one of the signs of enteritis and hepatitis. If the puppy walking around screaming pain, or even unwilling to walk, it is necessary to check the skeleton limbs in particular whether there is musculoskeletal trauma.

Pets|Eight, the stool normal normal puppy stool is mud glue like strip. Just change the environment, food or overfeeding, worms and intestinal inflammation can make the puppy diarrhea. If the stool is softer than toothpaste or contains transparent mucus, it should be viewed with caution. Nine, blood color turn over the lips of the dog's mouth can see the blood color of the flesh. Severe malnutrition, worms, hematopoietic disorders or exposure to shock can make the blood color pale.

Ten, no pus bubbles and excessive dandruffDry skin, sensitive skin, or ectoparasites can cause a dog to scratch or lose a lot of dandruff. If the environment is not clean or neglected, the skin is prone to red spots and pustules. These are not serious diseases, but without proper care, they can seriously affect a puppy's appearance and odor, causing concern for the owner. Finally, prospective owners should check their puppy's vaccination records and verify their dog's identity.

The law requires that all dogs kept for sale in pet stores be vaccinated against distemper, viral enteritis and viral hepatitis by a registered veterinarian in order to minimize the spread of common infectious diseases in dogs. It is important to remember that even vaccinated puppies are not invulnerable or immune to prevented diseases. When in doubt, check with the shopkeeper before deciding to buy, and try to arrange a visit during feeding time to observe the puppy. If you are still unsure about the basic state of the dog after observation, you can consider taking it to the veterinarian for further information (see the complete manual of dog ownership

02)------ dog owner's job duties

If you live in the city and want to be a pet dog owner, please check whether you can do the following two eight:

Job requirements:

One, loving and responsible;

Two, don't mind the dog's health;

Two, don't mind the dog's health;

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Two, don't mind leaving more than ten square meters of space for the dog in your tidy living room, so that it can move freely;

Three, in the cold winter, at five o'clock, get out of the hot comforter to take the dog for a walk;

Four, mop the floor more than once a day;

Five, cancel the plan to travel to Jiuzhaigou, and take the money out of the dog on the account of the dog;

Five I'm not allergic to dog feces or handkerchiefs full of dog urine, and I don't mind carrying a small shovel and a bag for dog feces when I take my dog out;

Eight, I don't have any children under the age of three at home, and I don't intend to have any children in the next five years.

Work:

I. Purchase the dog from the proper channels. If you figure cheap: Figure convenient to buy dogs from the illegal dog market, on the one hand, disrupting the social order, for some to sell for a living of idle or even illegal people to provide an opportunity to take advantage of, and on the other hand, can not guarantee that the dog baby whether the pedigree is pure, healthy. If you spend the money to buy shaggy dog, buy a shaved hair of the big woodchucks, that's not bad, after all, it is also a lively and lovely little guy, can bring you unlimited fun, but once you buy a sick dog, let you work hard, in the end, "dog" two empty, helpless to watch the little life day after day by the disease The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on a new dog, and then you'll be able to get it to work.

2. Let your dog have a legal identity. The smart and well-behaved dog baby brings us infinite fun, should we also give it a basic life security? Being locked up in the home can not enjoy the sunshine, can not enjoy playing the little baby is poor, confiscated by the law enforcement department of the little baby is innocent, the fault is all in your body ah! It is you who deprived the dog of its basic right to live with its y attached owner***.

Three, timely to the dog baby vaccination. If you do not vaccinate, the dog is very easy to get sick, in addition to the first time to repeat the vaccination, the rest of the year only must be vaccinated once. A few dozen dollars a year, you can greatly reduce the chances of the dog baby disease, completely exempted from rabies and other malignant diseases.

Four, have enough time to play with the dog baby. Dogs and people have deep feelings, the owner and it play together, will make it very happy and satisfied. If you can only have one or two hours a day with it, and the rest of the time you can only lock it at home, you'd better not have a dog.

Fifth, don't let your dog baby's feces pollute the environment. If you don't want to step on other dog's feces, don't want to smell the stinky dog urine, and don't want your beloved dog baby to be infected by contact with sick dog's feces, please walk your dog with a small shovel and a bag, and shovel up the dog's feces at any time. Don't worry, no one will laugh at your superfluous, only more and more people follow your example. Sixth, train your dog. Excessive pampering will only allow the dog to develop a variety of bad habits, such as barking when they hear movement. When a dog does something wrong, you must criticize it - of course, do not use violence against the dog until you have no choice, it will make it sad.

Seven, if your dog attacks people or damages public property, you are responsible for taking the loss and giving compensation. It is recommended that when you take your dog out, you must use a dog chain, one can avoid the dog attacking people or damaging public property, and the other can also prevent the dog from running around and losing or being hit by a vehicle.

Eight, do not abandon the dog. The dog is very cute when it is small and healthy, it is old? What about when it's sick? What about when it is on the verge of death? Never leave it on the street because of these things. Dogs are very affectionate, at first the dog won't know that it has been left behind by its owner, it will think that the owner is also anxiously looking for it, when it understands all this, the loyalty in the dog's nature will make it suffer immensely. If you love your dog, you need to make it feel safe and loved. The Complete Dog Handbook (15) ------ Feeding Misconceptions

Some people think that feeding their dogs with the best meats will make them grow strong. In fact, feeding a dog this way is not only costly, but also causes diarrhea in most dogs, creates indigestion, and is difficult to absorb. Puppies need to break down the proteins in meat in order to get energy; in fact, these can be obtained entirely from carbohydrates. In addition, meat also lacks vitamins A, D, and E.

In general, any dog that is overfed meat or fed only meat (especially from 3 months of age to 12 months of age) must have faulty bone formation because of an imbalance in the ratio of calcium to phosphorus from the meat. In other words, there is less calcium and more phosphorus. In addition , feeding only meat will also cause the dog's nutrition not to produce good, born chondromalacia. Whether or not the dog we have is a purebred, we need to start feeding the dog some calcium powder from puppyhood. Calcium powder has the same effect as calcium tablets and is important for the growth of your dog's bones. Without calcium, the teeth and bones will not function properly. This is especially true for dogs with a large proportion of bones, such as Boxers, Rottweilers, St. Bernards, Great Danes, and Rhodesian Lionhounds, which need calcium as puppies. That's why it's important to add the right amount of calcium to the food we feed our dogs every day.

Calcium is more easily absorbed by dogs. So how much calcium powder is the right amount to feed? Typically growing puppies need one teaspoon of calcium powder per day for every 2.2 kilograms (about 5 pounds) they weigh. In other words, as your dog gains weight, the amount of calcium will increase proportionally. When the dog reaches 1 year of age, it enters the adulthood stage; from then on, it needs one teaspoon of calcium per day for every 4.5 kilograms (about 10 pounds) of body weight. From then on, one teaspoon of calcium per 4.5 kg (about 10 lbs.) per day is needed. This amount has been relatively halved, as the growth of bones and teeth stabilizes after the growth spurt, so that more calcium is not needed. Another point to note is that the dog must be given proper exercise every day in order for the calcium to be absorbed; otherwise, feeding the dog too much calcium will be detrimental to the dog's health.