Assisting New
Owners with Puppies
1.When your new pup awakes he will want to urinate (pee), you must put
the pup outside immediately, if you say wait a minute you will be to
late and it will have made a puddle on the carpet.
2.When your pup has been fed he will need to be put outside immediately,
see above.
3. Don not walk your pup outside of your property until one week after its
12 week vaccination (C4).
4. When teaching your pup to walk on a lead you will find it easier if
you put a small collar on it with 6 inches of a light chain attached,
and let it walk around the yard for a week, this is to get it used to
something around its neck,
A light line about 5 feet long such as that used to pull up venation
blinds with a small solid chrome ring attached, used like a noose is
fine to train a pup to walk, but don't try to walk it away from home,
put the pup under your arm walk 20 yards away from the gate put the pup
on the ground and walk home, it always will walk home, then make a big
fuss of it telling it how clever it is, repeat until the pup will walk
both ways just to get the praise.
5. When you receive the pup from us it will attack its food as though it
is starving, but after a little while the pup will decide to do a little
training on its own behalf, and you will be the recipient of the
training, firstly it will start leaving some of its food, and you being
the average pet owner will start getting worried and think that it is
getting sick of the same food all of the time so you will get some
different type of food, the pup will eat the new food for a few days and
then start leaving some, this will be repeated time and time again until
in  desperation
you will do what you should have done in the first place and given me a
bell to sort out your problem, what I will tell you is to go back to the
way of feeding the pup that was on the menu that you received from us
with the pup, but with this addition, I will tell you to put down the
pups food and start counting slowly to 10, then pick up the bowl whether
it is finished or not, if there is food on the bowl cover with Glad Wrap
and put in the fridge at the next meal time take out of the fridge give
to the pup and start counting I have never known any adult dog to go
more than 4 days without eating, your pup will only miss a couple of
meals and your problem will have been solved.
6. Dogs are pack animals, in a pack there are leaders and followers,
make sure that you and all members of your family are recognized by the
pup as leaders, the pup will need discipline, a crack with a rolled up
newspaper with a loudly shouted no works wonders.
7. If you have a problem that you can't solve we are only as far away as
Your telephone, it is unlikely that you will have a problem that we have
not had over the years, please ring us with your problem. At
07-54978736.
Dabews Miniature
Bullterriers notes on rearing puppies after Caesarean
I
do not wait for the bitch to start whelping, I keep a close watch on her
temperature by putting my hand on the abdomen of the bitch, her
temperature is 101.6 F mine 98.6 F, her temperature will start to drop
until she is cooler than me, she will have the pups within 48 hours.
I
watch for the pups to move back then drop, her motions instead of being
firm will soften considerably as she cleans out her bowels in
preparation for whelping, I then make an inspired guess when I think she
will start to whelp, the object being to have the caesarean
approximately 1/2 to 1 day early so that I do not have to get my Vet out
of bed in the middle of the night.
As my Vet operates, he extracts the pups and hands them to me in their
bag, I take then out of the bag, clamp, tie, and cut the umbilical cord,
shake the fluid out of the pup, roughly and vigorously dry it to get it
breathing, I then hand the pup to Anne who dries the pup more carefully,
makes sure that the pup is OK and puts it in a small cardboard box on
top of a hot water bottle.
When we arrive home, we lay the bitch on her side, she is still affected
by the anesthetic and put all of the pups on to her teats, more often
than not the bitch does not have much milk but it is essential to leave
them on for about 1/2 hour to help bring down the milk.
We have a heated humidity crib which is oxygen enriched in which we
place the pups, the next step is to tube feed the pups with 2 ml of ½
strength Biolac into which acidophilus powder has been added, 2 hours
later we again put the pups on to the bitch, after we remove them we
then again tube feed them.
We do not leave the pups with the mother until she willingly washes
them, even then we watch her closely as they have a habit of trying to
remove what is left of the umbilical cord.
Our whelping box is 30 inches square and has a trampoline on top of the
pig rail that deflects if the bitch should lie on a pup allowing the pup
to squeal for attention, it is vital that the pups do not get chilled.
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