Dog Health Care: Be Careful Where you Buy Your Puppy
When buying a new puppy it is important to think carefully about where you buy it from.If you buy a puppy from the wrong source you might end up with heart breaking dog health care problems on your hands. This is because of the danger of unwittingly buying a puppy who was born in a puppy farm.
Dog health care is a long way down the list of priorities for puppy farms and their proprietors.On the contrary the puppies that come from them are rarely healthy. Such puppies often suffer with grave physical and psychological illness. They also frequently demonstrate problem behaviour.
The problems arise from the conditions in which the puppies are kept. Conditions are very poor because profit is really the only concern of the owners. The dogs have little or no space to exercise and nearly no contact with humans.
These dogs are also prone to poor health. Mother dogs are malnourished because of the poor quality food they are fed in only the smallest amounts. Females are forced to breed as often as they physically can from the age of four months onwards, only being allowed to stop when they die or become too ill.Such frequent breeding leaves mothers and puppies unhealthy.In order to increase profits, puppies are taken away from their mothers too early so that she may then go on have another litter. This, coupled with a lack of contact with humans leads to dog health care problems and behavioural disorders.
Puppies which are bought from pet shops are almost certainly the product of puppy farms, so it is not advisable to buy a puppy in a shop. It is also difficult to be sure where puppies in internet or newspaper adverts have come from. As such, anyone considering buying a puppy from an advert found in a newspaper or online should be sure they see the puppies with their mother.Any seller who makes excuses when asked this is not to be trusted.Farmed puppies might be offered cheaper than the going rate, but the saving is next to nothing when extra future vet bills, behavioural problems and heart break are taken into account. Reputable breeders stay well away from puppies from farms, so other dog owners may be able to recommend local breeders.
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