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Receiving a Puppy. Information on receiving a puppy. Learn how to care for a new puppy you just received.
Receiving Puppies Many people who buy puppies do not give them proper care on their arrival in the new home.
How to Care for a New Puppy In order to insure success with a puppy, take it carefully from the crate in which it is received, making as little noise as possible in so doing. Speak to it in a pleasant and sympathetic way, calling it by its name, if it has any, which fact should always be ascertained before receipt of the puppy from the seller, if possible. After removal from the crate, be careful that the puppy does not get frightened and run off and hide. In order to avoid this, let the youngster out into a space of moderate size at first. Bear in mind that the journey, however short, has had the tendency to frighten and make nervous any young dog. After allowing the puppy some freedom and an outing in an enclosure, for sufficient length of time for it to attend to nature's calls, give it a bowl of boiled milk and bread broken up, or a soft-boiled egg or two. Feed light for a few days, at morning, noon a.nd night. If kept out of draughts and petted, the puppy should soon get fully accustomed to his new home, and the sooner it is made to feel at home by kindness and attention the better it will thrive and grow, and the less will it feel the shock of the change to its new quarters. Remember that while it may, and probably did, start clean, it may reach you soiled, due to getting in its own filth in box, so this must be considered, and you remember that a bath, if only a sponging off, if in winter, and on their very thorough drying, will soon very much improve its appearance. Before you buy a pup, or even an adult dog, find out from its seller if it has been thoroughly and successfully treated for worms, and if not, attend to this promptly (See Worms).
Very few breeders, however, nowadays, but do treat all their puppies for worms before selling or shipping which they should do. The dog you receiive may howl or cry the first nigiit in his new home, don't be surprised if it does (you might do the same under the same circumstances), but put up with this the dog is worth afl the trouble or interruption it might cau&e you and kindness will soon cure it of this.
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