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Receiving a Dog. Information on receiving a dog by shipment or courier. Learn how to get a dog to adjust after being shipped.
Receiving a Dog by Shipment If you buy a dog that comes to you by express and has had a long trip, having left ht's home to come to a new one and among strangers, and he at first should act scared, shy or sulky, and, of course, then not look his best, don't conclude that the dog is not as he was represented by the seller, and that you have been fooled, but speak to him kindly, pet him, and it won't be long till he will see that he has found a friend in his new master, and while,, no doubt, he may think of the home and friends he has left, and very often silently grieve for them, yet he will quickly learn to love 'the new master, "and show by his actions how happy he is in his new home.
When thus at his ease and recovered from the strain and excitement of the trip, he will act and look myself again, and now is the time 'to judge him and see if he is not as represented, which he will prove to be, I think, especially if he was purchased from a reliable breeder. When you take the dog out of his crate, unless he has a collar on and you at first hold him by this or his chain, the best plan is to take him out of the box in a yard or room, for he might be badly frightened under the circumstances and get away from you. Also see the first thing tha't his collar is tight enough, so no danger of his slipping it over his head if scared, and getting away perhaps. Very many dogs I receive for shows have a collar on so loose that, if from fr.'ght or any undue cause, they could easily slip it off and escape. Don't have it so tight, that it chokes, but just so you can run your finger around under it is right and safe. While for many years I have been a professional handler of dogs at bench shows, having at some shows as many as seventy dogis of all breeds to receive and care for during the week, and the greater part of them being strange to me, this being our first introduction, I never had any trouble, and riot a dog in the many I have thus handled for others but was just as good a friend of mine, and quickly, too, as were my own favorites that I had brought from my kennels. After receiving a dog, give him a chance in the yard to attend to nature s calls, which he will very likely want to do, and you watch, to see the condition of his bowels.
He may be either constipated or vice versa, either due to having "held in" for too long a trip in his box. Very many matured dogs will not "empty"' in a box on a trip, and herein lies the greatest danger of long trips by express when they do not empty in box, the very natural result being either inflammation of the bowels or kidneys either or both. If dog is bound up, the feces being voided with a hard effort, and it is dry and very hard, give the dog a dose of castor and olive oil mixed. If bowels are too loose, passage running from dog too freely and very thin, attend to this, as treated under its heading, but such cases 'generally yield to proper feeding for a day or so with foods to fit the case. A puppy will often stand a long trip (if fed and watered en tfoute) better than an adult dog, because the pups will attend to nature's calls en route, which is all the better even if it arrives soiled from so doing almost certain to be 'so, confined in a box.
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