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How To Choose A Right Puppy For Your Family?
Choosing a puppy is a decision to add family member. It should never be a quick, instant decision. Even though a puppy is for your children, picking up the right puppy should be an adult decision. Here are couple of basic guidelines how to choose a right puppy for your family.
First, meet the parents and check living conditions of puppies: you will get the idea of functional and behavioral characteristics of the puppy from its parents. Clean living environment is very important for little puppies not to get any bacteria which can be harmful to puppies.
Healthy looking: there are couple of indicators of healthy pups - glossy and soft coat, no bald spots on its coat, smooth skin, pink tongue, no bad odor in its mouth and breath, no secretion in its eyes or ears. Nose should be cold and wet, eyes have no drainage which is often sign of an eye infection.
Observe the puppy in its group: don't make a decision right away. Spend sometime to observe how puppies play each other. Is this puppy active, curious, shy, agressive,
even is he barking, then in what condition? Is he barking simply because you are a stranger? or is he barking out of fear? If he is afraid, the dog could possibly grow up to be aggressive and dangerous, since fearful dogs protect themselves through barking and barring of their teeth. But you should be able to distinguish between friendly barking and fearful barking.
If everything looks ok, ask again to yourself if this puppy is right size to your family such as your kids' age, housing condition, if the personality of puppy is well matching with you such as how much attention this puppy requires, how much training it needs, and how much activities it needs. Again, choosing a puppy is adding a companion to your family who will be with you and your family for the next fifteen, sixteen years.
Finally, make sure you get all medical history of puppy from breeder and follow up with appropriate checkups and vaccination.
Useful Links:
Puppies on Sale
Breeder Directory
Breed Information
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