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How to Deal With Whelping and Weaning
Dog owners would be able to tell you that puppies can bring a lot of excitement to your home. By making use of a few simple tips, the process of raising your puppies can be a lot easier. This article will show you how you can whelp and wean your puppy.
To begin with, see how packs of dogs bring up their puppies. This will give you a lot of insight on how to successfully create an atmosphere that will let the mother of your puppies correctly nurture her offspring. Select a room in your house that can be used by your dog for at least a month to whelp her puppies. This room must be kept dark for most of the time. Black or red light bulbs can permit humans to check in on what is going on. A bright white light can cause some damage to the eyes of a newborn puppy.
The whelping room that you set up should look more or less like a cave in the sense that it should be dark and warm, and have some areas for the mother to cool off in. Also put in a sofa that the mother can use from time to time to get away from the little puppies and get some rest. The chair or sofa should however be close to the puppies so the mother can still see the puppies while resting.
You should at all times have enough food and water available to the mother so that she can eat and drink as is needed. Always try to manage the amount of people that are trying to enter the room. Usually there should be one person assigned to the duties of supplying food and water, and see that there is clean linen. The mother can easily become stressed if there are too many people in and out of the room, and mother dogs that are stressed out and anxious can react in a very unkind manner.
Offer your puppies and mother dog a secure and calm setting, and try to keep away any strange sounds from inside the house. Having puppies can be a very exciting experience, but infant puppies should not be touched directly except if it is entirely essential.
When the puppies are still very young, only one person should be allowed to handle the puppies.
Always try to make slow movements so that the mother dog comprehends what is going on. By following these simple tips, your puppies will make the transgression from this stage to the next stage in a strong manner. The next stage will see them being very explore investigative and intermingling with all the sounds in their environment.
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