Friday, March 11, 2016

What To Expect From Newfoundland Puppies As They Grow

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.

Dogs start to hear, see and smell between week three and week five. During this period, your dogs are sensitive to the environment. There sensory systems are well developed to enable them detect activities going around them. They are also able to interact with their litter-mates and mother with much ease. Another change you will observe is that the dogs will become more playful, walk, bark, and bite their litter-mates.

At the age of five to seven weeks, the dogs begin to develop independence character and they are ready to be weaned. Many people do not understand most of the habits the dogs develop at this age because their uninhibited curiosity is exponentially growing. Though your puppy will seem to develop certain fears, it is the right time to introduce them to environments abundant with stimulation and variety. Furthermore, it is the right time to expose them to humans to help them develop deep attachments.

Normally, dogs will start getting curious and investigating any strange thing when they are about 7 to 9 weeks. This is a stage where their sensory organs are fully developed. They start developing sociable traits such as making friendship with anyone they come across. Most of them at this stage start to convey the characters they should show while in the company of people.

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.

Puppies develop their mortal skills at week nine to twelve of their development. Here, you can easily realize that the dogs are very sensitive to the environment. Although the dogs are not able to remain attentive for a long time, you can notice that they are keen on the way they behave during certain times. They also demand more attention from the people they love. They treat people they know, with love and friendliness.

Teeth development or teething is evident when the dogs are thirteen to sixteen weeks old. Many puppy owners detect teething when they find the dogs with incessant desire to chew any object they come across. Those training their dogs can attest that dogs begin to defy certain training rules and commands at this age. This occurs because they are still eager to explore the environment further without you.

Chewing may not stop even after the teeth are developed. At week sixteen, you may find your dogs with the desire to chew. Here the dogs chew due to curiosity to explore things. At this point, it is better to introduce more advanced training such as how to walk on linoleum, gravel, cement, carpet, blacktop, tile and grass. You should also expose your dogs to people of different races, ages, genders and handicaps.




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