Friday, March 11, 2016

Developmental Changes You Expect From Newfoundland Puppies

By Christopher Sanders


Most people are eager to have a young puppy at home because they are easy to train and manage. However, most people do not know the right age of any puppy on sale. The bigger challenge that a big number of buyers have is understanding the changes they should expect from the Newfoundland puppies they have bought within the first year. This is what you may expect.

When dogs are three to five weeks old, they are able to smell, see and hear. At this stage, their sensory systems effectively develop and the pets are now aware of the surroundings. This awareness enables the puppy to interact very well with their mother and litter-mates. In fact, the dogs will also start to play, chase and growl, bare their teeth, wag their tails, bite their litter-mates, bark and walk. Their teeth also begin to erupt setting them ready for soft solid foods.

Puppies start to develop independent characters at week five to seven. At this point, the dogs are old enough for weaning. It may not be easy to clearly explain the unique behaviors dogs exhibit at this juncture as their behaviors are quite unpredictable. You may realize that the dogs seem to be in fear at all times. However, this should not hinder you from introducing them to the environment with different experiences. It is also the right time to develop sentimental attachment with your dogs.

The sensory system of most dogs develops fully at week seven to nine. Here you will notice that your dogs are very curious to discover new things. They will do crazy things with an aim of learning new things. They also become more mature, in the way they behave when with people and litter-mates.

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.

At the age of nine to twelve weeks, the puppy begins to become very sensitive to the environment and this can be noted very clearly. Their mobility skills begin to grow also. Puppies are able to know the behavior that are fit in certain times, even though their attention span is known to be short at this age. They treat you and your family members around as their close litter mates and do their best to win your attention.

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 phase may continue even after the puppy is sixteen weeks and over. They will not chew because they are teething but because of unstoppable curiosity and exploration. Puppies past sixteen weeks should be trained to walk on the grass, tile, blacktop, carpet, cement, gravel and linoleum among others. You should also introduce them to people of different handicaps, races, genders and ages.




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