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Tips When Bringing a Puppy to Your Home

  • 28/12/2016

Bringing a puppy to your family home can add an exciting new chapter to your life. You’ll incur a lot of responsibilities and have to get involved in time-consuming and strenuous activities, but the end result is very rewarding.

To help things run smoothly after you purchase your puppy and bring it home, we’ve listed a few tips below to help you out:

Home Environment

Try to bring your puppy home to a quiet environment. It’s important that you establish a daily routing before inviting friends around.

Your puppy will need its own space, a bed, water and food bowls. Your puppy most likely won’t be house trained unless it’s had a previous owner. Make sure you’ve got plenty of newspapers and training pads, for if you are going to housetrain indoors.

Food

There are also a lot of food’s that you should not feed dogs. The most common are chocolate, milk, cheese, grapes, raisins and onions. These foods can be harmful. To keep your puppy health, try to stick to pet / puppy food.

So when do you feed the puppy? This depends on the puppies age, typically you’ll need to feed your puppy three or four times a day with half a cup of food, mixed with water.

Training (You Can’t Teach an Old Dog New Tricks!)

Like humans, puppies can struggle to learn new things as they become older. The earlier you start training your puppy the better. If you aren’t 100 percent sure how to communicate with your puppy, then head down to your local library. These days, YouTube also do online lessons for you to take a look at.

Daily Walks

Ensure you take your puppy out at least one a day. Depending on the bread and age, you’ll likely have to head out for multiple walks each day. These walk actually help keep your dog healthily, and encourage a positive state of mind. Don’t forget to buy a collar and leech for your puppy!

Health Checks & Microchipping

Its recommended that you get your puppy checked over to look for any potential health problems. With dog microchipping now being a legal requirement, you’ll also need to make sure that your puppy is chipped.

Remember that purchasing a puppy is a responsibility for a pet that you are required to look after. Ensure that you are in a position, to look after, afford and keep the puppy for life prior to buying. A dog is for life. Buying a puppy is an ongoing reasonability!

About the author: Alice Porter is a freelance writer who specializes in a number of core areas, including animal protection, rights and law. With a love for animals, Alice used her journalism degree to gain access to a number of related cases and contacts, where she was able to build her portfolio of feature articles.

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Comments (1)

Said this on 04/01/2017 At 06:25 pm

Very informative article! I love that you pointed out that a puppy needs its own time when it is in a freshly new environment in order to get familiar and to feel safe in a new home.

So try and keep away all of the happy eyes of the puppy for the first few days because they will just confuse and scare your puppy.

One more thing I would like to add to the article is the habit of sleeping. Your puppy will at first sleep when it feels like it but eventually, your puppy will try and mimic your sleeping patterns and eventually it will get familiar with how you operate and will try to do the same.

The reason for this is that your puppy will want to spend as much time as possible with you and it will try to adapt to your behavior and this is good. You should help your puppy to blend in with your patterns by trying and doing thins for some time always the same and by patterns. 

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