Friday, March 11, 2016

Developmental Changes You Expect From Newfoundland Puppies

By Christopher Sanders


Many people always want to keep young puppies at home due to the fact that their management and training is easy. There is a specific age within which a puppy should be sold, but unfortunately most people do not know. The big problem that most buyers have is to know the changes they should expect from the Newfoundland puppies they are breeding at home within the first year. Below are some of the changes you should expect.

When dogs are three to five weeks old, they are able to smell, see and hear. At this stage, their sensory systems effectively develop and the pets are now aware of the surroundings. This awareness enables the puppy to interact very well with their mother and litter-mates. In fact, the dogs will also start to play, chase and growl, bare their teeth, wag their tails, bite their litter-mates, bark and walk. Their teeth also begin to erupt setting them ready for soft solid foods.

Puppies start to develop independent characters at week five to seven. At this point, the dogs are old enough for weaning. It may not be easy to clearly explain the unique behaviors dogs exhibit at this juncture as their behaviors are quite unpredictable. You may realize that the dogs seem to be in fear at all times. However, this should not hinder you from introducing them to the environment with different experiences. It is also the right time to develop sentimental attachment with your dogs.

The sensory system of most dogs develops fully at week seven to nine. Here you will notice that your dogs are very curious to discover new things. They will do crazy things with an aim of learning new things. They also become more mature, in the way they behave when with people and litter-mates.

During this age, the dogs also begin to treat the world around them with caution and become fearful to both sounds and movements. In fact, they begin fearing activities they once easily handled such as playing with certain toys and entering or sitting in crates. If you notice the puppy has developed this new attitude, avoid painful, frightening and traumatic situations at this age to avoid weakening their self-confidence.

At the age of nine to twelve weeks, the puppy begins to become very sensitive to the environment and this can be noted very clearly. Their mobility skills begin to grow also. Puppies are able to know the behavior that are fit in certain times, even though their attention span is known to be short at this age. They treat you and your family members around as their close litter mates and do their best to win your attention.

Your dogs will start to develop teeth at week thirteen to sixteen. One sign of teeth development is seeing your dogs with undying desire to chew every object they come across. The dogs also become aware of themselves. They start to be hardheaded. They refuse to hinder to certain rules and regulations they once adhered to. They seem wanting to be more independent. Training at this stage is quite challenging, as the dogs are adamant to hinder to instructions.

Due to curiosity of exploration, dogs at sixteen weeks and above may still be in the chewing phase. Remember at this age the puppy is through with teething and the training level should now advance to another. Such training include, walking on different objects such grass, tiles, carpet among others. They should also be allowed to interact with people of different kinds such as gender and age.




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