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Raising a puppy like a baby

One of the things that we tend to forget the dog owners (and I include myself) is precisely that they are dogs that behave like dogs, they like to do things like dogs and dogs are related, so I get confused and end up not having very clear what he is and what we are. An example of this is to Pipo, a puppy abandoned at birth and raised by a family with good intentions.

Pipo and his siblings were born where they and their masters must not hesitate to get rid of them stranded by the train tracks. When Mary, who was passing by, found the only litter was alive Pipo, who took home engaging with Lola, his mother, to find a good home when he was a little older. Lola, who had raised a daughter, did not hesitate to raise the cub in the same way.

Thus the fate of Pipo changed completely, from dying waiting for death in a plastic bag to live with a family whose life revolved around her. Her adoptive mother was fed with a bottle and milk for puppies and Mary was always willing to play with him.

Mary and Lola were in charge of bottle feeding every three hours , it was day or night, losing sleep. Pipo will alert when they forgot or were delayed, barking non-stop until he attended. All his experiences were limited to what happened behind closed doors of the house, guess that there might be a different world beyond, and even does not suspect the existence of other beings other than humans who came to visit, which was very easy to get attention. Thus passed the first two months of life Pipo, considered a human as they gave everything I wanted and without facing new experiences. Even when it reached one month old Lola, conscious of raising a baby, was raised to begin solid foods.

Knowing how crucial are the first months of life a puppy for their development, Pipo's example shows several things you should not do:

• Permissiveness : a two-month puppy used to sleeping on the couch will be an adult with the same custom, and if large breed will not fit anyone else.
• Address all requests: begins because "it's just a puppy" and when it grows is the easiest and fastest way to stop barking. Food
• wrong: during the first month of life should be fed with milk, but since then it has to do it gradually to solid foods. Will delay the transition will cost more, apart from the possible consequences for their health and physical development.
• Times unnecessary: \u200b\u200b is related to the previous, much as a baby needs to eat every three hours, a puppy does not need the food cycle and can spend the night to sleep. Also as they grow and take solid food, and this was the case with Pipo, continue with the routine and asked meal any time of night. Null
• socialization and speak of this stage of the puppy and its importance. In this case Pipo is not related to other dogs that subsequently hinder their coexistence with them. Does not live too much experience and in the future there will be many things that scare.

This series of errors took their toll on him Pipo when two months entered its new home and a family that included an adult dog. The difficulties of being in a strange place with strange people was added the aggravating food because he found that I gave him something he did not know. The coexistence with the bitch was hard to not have had contact with other dogs before, but Pipo was not aware that both were of the same race. With humans would not be much better used to getting attention constantly emerging new problems related to food: the barking asking the bottle until he got used to feed and barking at night asking food woke up the family and neighbors' complaints originated.

This story attempts to illustrate the impact that education, experience and environment have puppy later in life, and many of the errors that can occur are related to the humanization of the animal, to the point of becoming more permissive a puppy with a small child. To take a simple example, everyone rebuke to her 5 years if painted on the walls of home, but instead many of us leave our puppy gleefully chew our shoes 2 months.

The protagonist of our story, is a real dog now has a two years and a perfectly normal behavior, but under another name. Also real is the story itself, with some small changes to make it as anonymous as possible.

How did Pipo life with his new family. Was with them between two months and one year of age, had no choice but to get used to eating feed and forget the bottle, but no one tried to correct his habit of barking to order food. Thanks to the carelessness of their owners at that time lived locked in the kitchen, with little contact with family, and nobody bothered to take him out. The year is tired of the animal and adopted another family that currently lives and achieved with time and patience Pipo correct behavior.