ITS ARRIVAL IN HIS NEW HOME

You have just acquired a young Schnauzer pup, or you are about to do it.

Its health, its growth and its education will depend on you.

Your pup has just left his/her mother and his/her sisters and brothers for a new house which is completely foreign for him.

When the pup arrives at your home, nothing is not familiar for him. Imagine its distress... It undoubtedly is distressed, stressed, frightened and needs you to help it to acclimatize itself gradually to its new residence and its new owner. Let explore it rooms, coin by coin so that it is accustomed and there left its odors to it, discovers new noises, new feelings, new decorations. Speak to him gently, reassure it but be sharp with it never.

Show him then his "small at his place": its basket, its plate, its bowl of water, its toys... If you wish that it only sleep, as of the first niot place it in a part separately and do not yield to its calls. If you crack in front of its thrown into a panic tremors and its yaps, it will be then difficult for you to retrogress. Do not forget either to place near its basket a newsprint or a layer on which it will be able to make its needs, as well as a water bowl.

ITS FOOD

A food of quality, correctly balanced, supplemented by a regularly practised vermifugation and a vaccination, are the essential factors as well as possible to obtain an adult "schnauzer" of its form. Your new companion is nourished since his weaning with top-of-the-range food and it is accustomed to eat at fixed hours with the same site. To limit the risks of torsion of stomach of the giant schnauzers, we give them to eat in two meals, so that they avalent step a too great quantity into only once. For its health, we thus advise you to keep this method. Do not supplement especially the ration out of minerals, because the croquettes are already very largely equipped with it and phosphorus and calcium excesses cause incidents quite as serious as the deficiencies. Try to preserve this type of food very adapted and avoid the changes, because the dog is subjected to a mode of digestion very particular, different from ours. The least upheaval in its food practices causes most of the time diarrhoeas and a more or less long time of adaptation.

ITS HYGIENE

teeth: It is good good keep the white teeth. In the immediate future, it has baby teeth, the problem is not posed. But when it has its final teeth (of which you will have supervised the pousse), you can, if you see that they tend to yellow, brushing them with lemon juice. Around 4/5 months, at the time of the final growth, do not draw on the toys, rags, etc... which it will have in its mouth. You are likely to make him fall a tooth in formation and it could not be confirmed any more. Eyes: It may be that the eyes cry. That is due, very often with a lash, or a hair of the cap which comes to irritate them. To clean with a good ocular solution, and cut the hairs slightly. Whenever the symptoms persist, consult the veterinary surgeon especially (if the picotements are accompanied by other signs; loss of appetite, misses spirit...). Ears: How to clean its ears? Once all the eights or fifteen days, make sit your dog and make hold its muzzle by a member of the family. After having drawn the house from the ear to the top, introduce a cleaning solution first of all: in great quantity, then mass the base of the conduit, upwards, for distributing the product well. The end of the bottle must disappear completely. What runs out is recovered then with a piece of cotton. Especially do not introduce does not matter that they drops in an ear without taking opinion of an expert. Sexual formation: For the males, supervise the descent of the testicles.

ITS EDUCATION (Source : http://www.wanimo.com)

You have just acquired a small pup and your only desire is to spoil it much and to make it happy. This is completely comprehensible but it is necessary all the same to know to give limits bus to be happy, a dog does not need to be the king at the house. Happy and to be balanced, a dog must have at his place its place of dog which is a place of dominated since it is you, the owner, the chief of the pack and the house.

Indeed, will know that the relations between dogs are based on reports/ratios of predominance. The dog is a hierarchical animal: it lives in a pack where the animal dominating has various prerogatives, of which that to eat in first, slowly, in front of its pack, that to supervise and control displacements in the pack, and that to have the priority with the reproduction. So that your pup is in its place in your family (i.e. in her pack), it is quite obvious that you must be dominating it. If there is a blur as for this hierarchy in the spirit of your dog, i.e. if you leave him certain prerogatives of dominating, he will be able to rebel and become possibly aggressive or destructor later.

This is why it is essential to put upon the departure your small pup at its social place of dominated.

It is necessary to make it to eat after you (or then an hour before if that is not possible for you), in an isolated place and in your absence. The mess tin must be withdrawn at the end of fifteen minutes even if it is not finished: a pup which haggles in front of its croquettes is often a pup which tests you to see whether it can adopt a behavior slightly dominating. If the pup grogne when his mess tin is withdrawn to him, it is necessary to take an authoritative form (bust ahead, arms drawn aside, strong voice) and to thunder it. Caution: The dominated dogs also can grogner when one approaches the mess tin, but they are withdrawn to leave the place with dominating very quickly. In fact generally dogs eat very quickly and which do not leave remainders (for fear dominating it arrives and that it prevents them from eating).

To prevent that it mordille your pieces of furniture or others, give him bones in skin of buffalo (on sale on the great surface) so that it is made the teeth. Avoid giving him old shoes, it would not be able to make the difference with those which you still use! Be unaware of its silly things if you do not catch it in the act, the dog is not able to include/understand a punishment "with delayed-action", it does not make the relation between the past and the present. Your pup is still too young to retain itself a long time, accustom it to be clean upon the departure in the following way:

Exits:

- immediately with its alarm clock the morning. - at the end of each one of its meals or its drink catches - after each one of its nap - with your return of an absence - the evening before laying down you ?

When it makes in the house:

- Taken on the fact: take it without too being sharp with it and leave it. Never to put the nose to him inside. It would not include/understand anything and you are likely more to destabilize it to arrange the problem compliment it when it makes outside. - In the contrary case: be unaware of its silly things and clean apart from its presence. For him, that could resemble a mark of interest for its exactions and it could make use of it, thereafter, to draw your attention to him.

Socialization is a decisive stage to found from the beginning. As soon as your pup receives its second injection of recall (in 3 months), do not hesitate as often as possible to leave it in crowd (on the market for example). It is necessary that it is put in contact, as of its youth, with a maximum of people. That will not altèrera of anything its qualities guard. A dog, whatever it is, should not bite, but dissuade by its attitude, its facies and its voice.

Schnauzer is a guard of the family and her goods. You must be able to put your hands in its mess tin without any demonstration of hostility of its share, to walk it without it drawing on its leaves to attack a passer by or congeneric. All these things are to be taught him whereas it is still pup.

It is you who must manage the contacts with your young pup: you must choose yourselves the moments of plays, caresses and câlins with him. They is always you who must initiate the contact when you want of it. This also makes it possible to avoid too large hyperattachement your pup for you. Per moment, if you do not want to play, it is necessary to arrive at saying to your pup to go to lie down in its basket: it is not him which must decide but you. It is true that it is not always easy and some variations are possible: all also depends on the character of the pup. Certain pups will indeed need an education less firm than of others. There is no absolute rule.

The final acquisition of the hierarchy is done with puberty: it is thus beneficial to do everything for best from the beginning. But the errors of education are not irreversible... and more one is caught there early, plus the things are easy to change. Indeed, a dog can and must understand by education that, in a family, the men are the dominant ones and is dominated to him. On the other hand, when they are relationship with the other dogs, the intervention of the man is not used for nothing. It is necessary indeed that the dogs draw up their relationship dominant/dominé between them.
< last page
next page >