We wish you many, many years of love and fun with your new family member! If you are reading this, you have bought a puppy from Lifetime Pets. Below you will find important information about Vaccination, Worming and Flea Treatment, Microchip, Feeding and Toilet Training - If you have any other questions or queries, please be sure to send us a message or give us a call!
You can find your puppies microchip number and due date for their next vaccination on the vaccination certificate. Until the second vaccination it is important that you do not expose your pup to unvaccinated dogs as they do not yet have the protection from nasties like kennel cough, parvo etc.
Keep your pup away from dog parks, the beach or places where dogs might run free. This does not mean that you wrap your pup in bubble wrap as this is a very important time for them to be socialised and exposed to as many different things as you can.
You can take your pup to visit friends, even if they have a dog if you know that their dog would be vaccinated but do be aware of what you may be exposing your dog to before that second vaccination.
Intestinal Worming treatment has been administered at two, four and 6 weeks with Drontal then at eight weeks with Advocate (worms and fleas ) & Virbac (Tape Wormer). After 8 weeks they have been wormed every 2 weeks up to the age of 16 weeks, if they are still at the homestead. It is essential that you continue to worm your dog, for ongoing worming we recommend a monthly dose of Advocate as this covers fleas, worms, ear mites and heart-worm and is very simple, administering one dose to the back of your puppies neck on the first of each month is easily done and remembered.
Your pup has been raised on Advance Puppy wet and dry food. For the last weeks it has been predominately dry food. We have supplied you with both wet and dry food.
It is very important when bringing your pup home that you continue with the food that they have been raised on. You can change later on and feed them another food if your prefer but give the pup a chance to adjust to his new environment before making this change.
Today is a very big day for your pup as the whole world as they know it has changed drastically. They may be a little overwhelmed with all the changes and it may result in them not being very interested in food.
While an adult dog can go a day or so without eating, a puppy cannot. It is important that your pup does eat in the first day. This is the reason we have given you wet as well as dry food. If you feel that you pup has not eaten much at all you can offer it some wet food. As an extreme, if you feel your pup has not eaten hardly at all during the first day you can offer it some chicken. Not that you are going to spoil them but they must have something in their stomachs in those first days. Once they are in and settled they can get the bad news that its not chicken every day but they do need to eat in those first days.
Your pup has been microchipped with our details. The form you have filled out will enable us to transfer your details to the number. You don't need to do anything except to respond to the email you will receive from Central Animal Records. Once you approve the changed the new certificate will be emailed to you.
It is not uncommon when pups go to their new homes to have a bit of diarrhea, even at times with amounts of blood and mucus in it. This looks horrendous but is most often just related to the stress the pup is feeling. Even if they don't seem stressed, their lives have been turned upside down and there is nothing familiar to them in their new world.
If your pup is still eating and drinking well, is playful and active and seems well then just monitor the pup and this should improve in a couple of days. If your pup becomes lethargic and seems flat, that is very different and you need to call us!
If the diarrhea continues for more than 24 hours then change the pups food to boiled chicken and rice with some mashed pumpkin. This should clear the issue up very quickly.
Your pup will have the early concepts of toilet training, even as an 8 week old pup and the older the pup is the more this is established.
The pup already knows that it doesn't want to toilet where it is sleeping and spending most of its time. They will move away from that area to go.
The trouble is when they get to your house, they do not know what is inside and outside and they may think that the area down the hall or the corner of the room is outside. They need to learn where to go so we teach them this by taking them out all the time, even as often as every hour. Try as much as you can to catch every time they go and take them to the spot you choose. They usually go upon waking, after eating and after play, by observing the pup you will start to recognise when they are about to go so can take them out.
You may well have accidents. Pups don't get much warning themselves however it is very important that you don't reprimand them for this, while they are pups. They will think that you are telling them off for actually toileting not just because they are inside. They will then get very confused and try to hide from you when they want to go, and go behind the couch etc. Different with an adult dog, they know better, but don't reprimand a pup.
Do be diligent with this. Some pups will get it in days and some will take longer but all dogs need to be toilet trained, so continue with this until you get the result you want.
We hope you find these notes helpful. We would have touched on these issues when you picked up your pup, but we know you were just too excited to remember it all!
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