As not on the planet of two absolutely identical people, there are no dogs, which in their development and life paths would completely repeat each other. But at the same time, each dog, appearing on the light, passes certain stages of development. And all the breeders who have to deal with puppies should be understood that it is a period of newborn PSA.
Features of development
Puppies, like all mammals, are born viable, but helpless animals. They do not see anything and do not hear, they are not able to survive on their own. Since the birth of kids are in the vegetative period, which lasts 10 days.
These days are aimed at adapting a puppy to environmental conditions, first of all, to temperature and odors. On the first day, the puppies still resemble soft fluffy lumps, and already on the second day they become more dense, elastic, the wool starts to beautifully glorify them.
At this time, newborn puppies grow very actively: in the first week they are twice as weight. The kids every day are becoming more and more active: the owner even in the vegetative period can already determine which puppies in the litter is stronger. If a puppy is strong, he tries to first break through to the mother breast, weaker kids are forced to give . Strong pebbles are gaining weight faster, they earlier with eyes open and develops ear.
The breeder should be tirelessly watch the kids and their mom: weak puppies need to be put under the dairy nipples on time. For the cleanliness of the bitch's nest usually follows.
The opening of the eyes and the auditory passage of the puppies fall on 10-14 days of life. This is a transitional period in the development of a dog or a wake-up phase. Kids can see the world around, hear sounds. At the same time, their milk teeth are dispersed.
If the puppy refers to a shallow or medium breed, it already tries to get up on the paws, walk. Large breed puppies try to stand for 15-17 days . They still look like plush bears, the sounds do not make any doggy, but very quickly learn to grow and bark.
From two weeks to the month of the puppies are experiencing a period of transition to independence. Puppies in 3-4 weeks are already much less dependent on the mother. When the owner sees the first milk teeth from them, he can begin to give lures. Food should be liquid.
By 3 weeks, the lure will already be given 2-3 times a day. By the month, the kids are almost completely moving to ordinary feed.
It is a month that the puppies begin to truly get used to the owner. At the same time, the kids become very curious: they are interested in everything that is around, they boldly explore the territory, try everything tooth and, like all the children, love to frolic and play.
Psychophysiological stages of the development of a puppy | Basic moments |
Neonatal or newborn period (1-10 days) | The rapid growth of the puppy, the development of unconditional reflex reactions, intense growth of the brain. The main reaction of the baby is positive on a woolen warm surface. In the absence of mom's puppies, they sleep with a handful, so they are trying to preserve heat, because they are still far from perfect (the reaction of missed). |
Transitional period (10-30 days) | Baby show interest in meat and other hard food, they appear chewing movements. Food conditioned reflexes are formed. Natural estimated reactions begin to work, as well as conditional defensive reflexes. |
Primary socialization period (35-80 days) | Conditional reflexes are formed with an impressive speed. The motor activity is rapidly increasing, the game and research activities are puppies. |
Then the juvenile period begins (12 weeks +), which forms the typological features of the dog.
How to determine the floor?
No other way of determining the floor of the dog, except for inspection of genitals, no. Methods for the definition of "muzzle" or "in character" are very dubious.
Sex signs of a male puppy.
- Dogs have up to 8 weeks The genital organs were formed not expressively, the testicles are not yet visible, but the tiny penis can already be found.
- In the zone slightly below the navel, Where the wool is actually absent, the newborn will have a tiny fold with a small protrusion. If the dog is a long-haired, then this place will be a well-noticeable bunch of wool.
- Under the tail of a dog There will be an anal hole between the paws - a small bunch of wool (here in the future there will be testicles).
Sexual signs of puppy-bitch:
- In dogs-girls near the navel, there is no beam of wool or clearly tugged, but there are usually small nipple marks (although they are also in dogs);
- Under the tail slightly below the anus, almost between the legs will be a small seal (floor slot).
Inspection must be carried out delicately, because the kids are fragile and vulnerable. It is not necessary to touch the newborn - in the first days you can and not disassemble it, but we can weaken the smell of a mother's puppy such views.
The most informative inspection will be at the third week of life and further. You can also note that puppies-dogs will be slightly larger than their sisters.
To carry out the correct inspection, the owner needs to take a towel (terry, heated on the battery), put a puppy on him on his back, hold on hand. Blog baby, try to relax it.
What to feed puppies?
To feed the dog of the fellowship is easy, but feed correctly, according to the standards - the case requiring knowledge. Alas, but the dogs often tolerate the poisoning of non-peaked food, and not street hungry dogs, but pets. Products that will have your favorite should be fresh.
For feeding a puppy, the following products are used.
- Milk. Up to 4 months, it is present in the kid's diet. Many experts advise a more useful goat to give a puppy, but since it is necessary to get it problematic, a whole cow is suitable. By half the amount of milk decreases, then it is completely removed from the diet, leaving only fermented dairy products.
- Dairy products. They need a dog for calcium intake to the body and for comfortable digestion. Useful for puppies serum. But the grazing dog is only twice a week eating a sour milk. For progress in the training of the baby, you can sometimes treat solid cheese.
- At least 40% of food in the diet should have to meat. It can be given in cheese, covered or boiled form. Puppy can be fed with chicken without peel, turkey and veal, beef, horse.
You need to include in the menu of dogs and meat offal. They all cut into small pieces, but you do not need to turn them into mince. Meat begins to feed the 20-day puppies (in about this age they appear teeth).
- Fish or seafood kid give twice a week . But river fish is not the most successful option. Her puppy eats her puppy, but the consequences can be deplorable: the river fish is often infected with helminths, and the baby can be stored bone.
- Vegetables . Vitamins are full of vegetables, because they are mandatory in the diet. They are usually mixed with porridge or cottage cheese. You can stew vegetables, and you can wipe on the grater. Puppies can be given pumpkin, zucchini, beets, carrots. It is better to start with a grated carrot with sour cream.
- Ceres. Kashi serve as an addition to the main diet puppies, which consists of meat and dairy products. In the first months after birth, porridge kids are boiled on milk. Evaluate how the dog is tolerates the barbell: some puppies do not fold with buckwheat, for example.
Crupes and vegetables pets are boiled soups. The weekly puppy is such a food, of course, it is impossible to feed, but a three-week baby can be (but not very often, 2-3 times a week).
And kids can be given egg yolks (perfect, if it is quail eggs). Fruits like some puppies, and if they are finely transferred, you can offer PSAs from time to time such a treat. But only in a safe form, for example, slices apple. But fruit with a bone, as well as grapes and currants, do not even offer puppies.
Sometimes there is a question about how to irrigate puppies, if the dog has no milk or if they were very small without a mother. Instead of a children's dairy mixture, how many owners make it, it is wiser to use an adapted mixture for newborns puppies.
Bottles are sold in Zooaptecs with which dogs are sold.
Care rules
Many breeders even take a little vacation at work, as soon as newborn puppies appear in the house. And if this is the first brood for bitch, such enhanced care from the owners is quite logical. At an adult dog, not the first time experiencing the experience of the birth of offspring, Maternal instinct Silen.
Caring from the breeder is to monitor the situation, ensuring the heat and peace of mind of the dog and its offspring. She cares about feeding, on licking kids, but unforeseen difficulties may arise (postpartum complications), which is important to see in time.
Major departures for puppies.
- Thermoregulation. For newborn puppies, she is still imperfect, so even if it is zyabko, you will not notice a characteristic trembling. Therefore, it is important to monitor the temperature in Lena (if the kids will grow without mom). If it is colder than +30 degrees, kids can freeze.
Weak, not very long hypothermia strengthens the immunity of the dog, the puppies are getting used to growth in natural conditions. But if they are frown and are in a state of hypothermia for a long time, this is a serious threat for kids.
- Claws. Around the 8th day of life, they are puppies for the first time "manicure". Cut claws ps need every week. If this is not done, during the suction of the maternal milk, the puppy can scratch the bitch of the skin. Cut follows only sharp edges (hooks).
- Digestion. About the problems with digestion, the intestinal infections may indicate a special renovation smell of a puppy, it will have yellow characteristic traces around the anal hole. Intestinal disorder often leads to the death of PSA, because it is necessary to react immediately.
The tip of the baby in the kid needs the first days of his life to lubricate with greenflaw. If the umbilical umbilical bitch overloaded with sick teeth, it may cause bacteria to enter fresh umbilical wound.
In the first week of life, care for the kids is easy: they sleep almost all the time or eat. If the puppies are shuddered during sleep, they are not worth it, it is not necessary to scare this.
But when the kids will already grow up and they will be a month, the time of first treatment will come. Puppies waiting Anthelmintic therapy . It is held several times (the exact chart will give a veterinarian). Usually, anthelmintal means are given twice with an interval of 10 days. The puppy tablet must swallow, you need to trace.
And even though the licking dogs give almost immediately, only about 45 days of life they can start adequately to respond. Closer to two months it becomes clear what kind of dog is growing with you, what is your temper, character. From that time, the puppy needs to communicate with a person. It can already be truly educated, start training . It is time to go to the "big world" with him.
Possible problems
Alas, not always the development of the dog passes well. In earlier childhood, problems that make a puppy painful, and even lead to his death.
Consider the most common of them.
- Supercooling. In the first week of life on the bed, the kids should be the temperature in the area of 29-32 degrees. If you understand that the puppies have frozen, you need to reconsider the place where they are equipped with a mom's mom. If they grow without mom, you can warm the kids by attaching to your own body.
It is dangerous to feed the chilled puppy - the digestive system may not cope with the load. First you need to warm it, put in order.
- Small weight gain. By 8-10 days, the weight puppies doubles, if this does not happen, the dog needs a survey. The puppy can be born not enough and in such a case the tactic of its sticking is the sphere of the competence of the veterinarian. If the kid is diarrhea, it will lose weight.
But diarrhea is dehydration, dangerous pathology. In this case, the puppy needs to give a solution of Ringer-Locke, which in half is mixed with a glucose solution.
- Toxic milk syndrome . If the bitch is mastitis or inflammation of the uterus, it can be toxic milk for his offspring. It is possible to understand this in diarrhea and bloating in puppies. Such puppies are constantly singing, they have increased saliva, they look painful.
Any problem associated with the health of newborns or the younger puppies is the reason to show the kids to the veterinarian. Before you give puppies in good hands, they should also be shown by a specialist. He will hold a full inspection, will make the primary vaccination and the corresponding marks in the medapation.
Attention, care, monitoring, the timely reaction of the owner on emerging problems is the key to the fact that the puppies in his house will grow strong and healthy.
You can learn from the next video of the newborn puppies from the following video.