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Health, Food & Care Info...Must read...to purchase. Breeders will ask certain questions to make sure you have read over this page. www.puppies234.com CAN I CHANGE MY PUPPIES NAME ? Yes, your new puppy will learn it's new name the first day in your home. Does my puppy come w/ shots? wormed? guarantee? Health record ? Yes, Puppy's come with first puppy shots completed and wormers completed by age 8.5 weeks. Shots and wormers will be listed with types, and dates on the health record that comes with the puppy. Be sure to ask the breeder about shots, wormers Guarantees and a health record. Health records should include Breeders name and contact information, Buyers name and contact information, Price you paid for the puppy and the date you purchased the puppy, Puppy color, sex, date of birth, age, and parents breed information. As a buyer you will still need to worm your new puppy one more time and you will still need additional shots and a rabies shot also. Please confirm this at your first vet appointment. TOY BREED PUPPY ~ VS ~ BIG BREED PUPPY WHATS THE DIFFERENCE ? When you bring home a new puppy, a Toy Breed puppy only weighs between 1 and 3 pounds at 8-10 weeks of age. Larger breeds will weigh 2-5 times more at the same age. Why does this matter so much ? When puppies move from one environment to another they do things like not eat and drink right away, or maybe a little less for as long as 1-4 days,.... or worse, not at all. It is perfectly natural for a dog/puppy to do this when moved from one home to another, its completely normal. But very dangerous for the puppy that only weighs 1-4 pounds. Larger breed puppies do not suffer dire consquences as fast as the Toy Breed puppies do. Its a weight issue. Its all about weight. So, while A *Large Breed puppy may not send you to the vet with low sugar, lethargic weak behavior, a seizure, dehydration, kidney damage or failure, The Toy Breed Puppy you are thinking about buying just may.... if it chooses not to eat or drink when moved from our home to yours and you do nothing about it. How common does this happen.... About 1 in 20 will stop eating and drinking all together. About 80% puppies will eat and drink just a wee little less over a period of 1-3 days...doing no harm. One out every ten puppy buyers do not care for their new puppy properly after the puppy leaves its birth home. Main cause... lack of food, and too much play time with young children and not enough rest time. HOW BIG IS A TOY BREED PUPPY'S STOMACH ? A 1 pound-2.5 pound puppy needs to be fed 6-8 times per day. It's stomach is the size of a golfball, yes that's tiny huh ? Not only can you NOT fit alot of food in a golfball, but it goes thru the food quickly, about 4 hours. It only takes a 1 pound-2.5 pound puppy to burn thru all of its food's nutrients and energy supply in about 4 hours. How long does it take to dehydrate a Toy Breed puppy ? 8-16 hrs. Yep thats it ! The less it weighs....the faster it happens. So what can you do ?? There is no guarantee that you can avoid this issue completely... but you can certainly take steps to help your puppy make this environmental change as smoothly as possible without complications. It does require a caring person to do so. If you aren't fond of the idea of helping your new Toy Breed puppy eat manually or are the type to just stand and do nothing about your new non-eating puppy...then you shouldn't be considering a toy breed puppy. Buy a bigger breed. 1. You must make sure your new puppy eats and drinks 4-8 times per day depending on its weight and stomach size. 2. Make sure your puppy knows where its food and water bowls are and please take the puppy to the bowls several times through out each day. 3. Have a heavy supplement (vitamin) bought and ready to use before your puppy arrives. One that caters to Toy Breeds and environmental change. 4. Instead of just plain water, add clear (no food coloring) Pedalyte to your pups drinking water. Make it half and half. Use a small bowl and change it every morning. When your container of pedalyte is gone, you do not need to purchase anymore. 5. Use the same dry food the breeder was using for atleast 14 days. Be sure to ask what your new puppy was eating. Depending on your puppy's weight, breed & stomach size you will be putting down between 1/4 cup and a 3/4 cup every morning. It should last the entire day. Monitor how much the puppy is eating. If the puppy eats it all...give it more. Do not mix anything with the dry food. Dry food should always be kept dry. When you mix water and or soft food to your pup's dry food it will statrt to grow bacteria within 4 hours. 6. Wet or soft food which comes in can, tray, and or pouch. When you sign up for your puppy, the operator should tell you what type of wet food your puppy is currently eating or you can ask for the breeders contact info and they can tell you. When feeding wet food, it should be 3-4 times per day, a puppy should eat about a teaspoon to a tablespoon at each serving depending on puppy size.... not heaping spoon fulls. 7. Cottage cheese. What a wonderful food for toy breeds. Full of nutrition. Tasty. Most breeders use cottage cheese when breeding. Cottage cheese is sometimes the first meal a young puppy will be offered (around 4 weeks) and its not just for puppies but for the mothers too, before and after birthing. Don't buy fatfree cottage cheese. When feeding Cottage Cheese, it should be 3-4 times per day, a puppy should eat about a teaspoon to a tablespoon at each serving depending on puppy size.... not heaping spoon fulls. 9. Baby Food.... If after the first day your new puppy still doesn't want to eat full meals you can also purchase baby food, like Chicken/Turkey and rice or Chicken/Turkey and vegetables, no pasta please. Baby food in a jar is another food replacement that can be manually fed through a syringe. Put the syringe in the front of your pups mouth, (not the side it will drip or pour out) just squeeze out the baby food and since its liquid your puppy has no choice but to swallow. Make sure you hold the pup's head in up right position until it swallows it. You cannot suck up dry dog food or wet food in a syringe...... baby food is another great weapon against hypoglycemia when purchasing a new toy breed puppy. 10. Other healthy enticing foods.....you can give your puppy are boiled chicken, scrambled eggs, brown rice (no white) peas, carrots and Hamburger. 11. Under no circumstances..... should you stand back and do nothing about your new puppy not eating and drinking enough that first week. You have purchased a toy breed, they cannot skip meals or continuously eat too little over a period of 2 or 3 days. PUPPY STRESS LIST....ITS REAL !! 1. CHANGE OF FOOD 2. A BIG HOUSE OR TOO MUCH AREA TO RUN FREE IN 3. IF WATER AND FOOD BOWLS ARE HARD TO FIND 4. CHILDREN, BEING LOUD, RUNNING, GRABBING AND OVER HANDLING THE PUP. 5. LOUD NOISES, MUSIC, TRAFFIC, YELLING, ALOT OF PEOPLE, VACUME, KITCHEN APPLIANCES 6. NEW SMELLS, SOUNDS, AND ENVIRONMENT 7. NOT ENOUGH FLOOR TIME...ALWAYS BEING HELD 8. ABUSE, HARSH PUNISHMENT 9. THIER FIRST VET VISIT, SALON APPT, DAYCARE, DOG PARK, STORE 21. GOING OUTSIDE FOR POTTY TIME WHEN ITS COLD. The end :)
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