Bringing Home a New Puppy

Bringing Home a New Puppy: Tips and Checklist

Bringing home a new puppy is exciting and life changing. There is a breed to fit every lifestyle whether you are active, sedentary or simply enjoy some companionship in your day to day activities. However, bringing a new puppy home means there will be some things you need to know as you get ready to have a new canine friend in your life.
Where you get a puppy can affect what you need for their arrival

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Feeding Your Puppy: Everything You Should Know

Bringing a young puppy home is one of the best feelings in the world. Regardless of the dog in which they will grow up into, they begin as an adorable fur ball that is always looking at you with admiration and love. As is with all the best things in life, having a puppy is not as easy as it sounds. Feeding your puppy correctly, as well as housetraining it, and teaching it some commands is essential for the best development of your canine companion.

5 Awesome Puppy Care Tips

5 Awesome Puppy Care Tips

Owning a puppy is one of life’s little pleasures. However, the reality of having a puppy is far different from what mass media would tell you, as every sweet moment of cuddles and puppy kisses is matched by a difficult time of cleaning after the puppy and fearing for its well-being. Your head is probably filled with a lot of fantasies of adorable fun-filled moments playing fetch at the park and taking long walks around the neighborhood.

Best Puppy Pads

Best Puppy Pads

Puppy pads are indispensable for pet parents when house training a puppy, but these pads have many other uses, too. If you live in an apartment and it’s not always easy to get outside with your dogs or if you have to leave your pet alone for a few hours, puppy pads help ensure dogs don’t make huge messes.
These absorbent training pads are great for older dogs suffering from urinary incontinence or when your dog is getting sick

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Puppy Flea Treatment – Best Practices

Puppy-flea-treatment; image by Rayaah/flickr.comIf you have a new pup in your life, the time to think about puppy flea treatment is now! Flea bites cause puppies all kinds of problems. Flea allergy dermatitis is the most common skin ailment for dogs.

Every time a flea bites, it leaves behind saliva that irritates the bite, often causing an allergic reaction. The resulting dermatitis is very uncomfortable for your little dog and can lead to infection…

Fleas can bite dozens of times an hour or more, they feed on a tiny bit of blood with every bite, so puppies can become anemic with a large enough infestation. These bugs also spread nasty parasites, including one variety of tapeworm. Luckily, with proper care, fleas won’t be a bother. You just have to know what to do.

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