Good Veterinary Care is Important for Your Puppy

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Good Veterinary Care is Important for Your Puppy
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It is important to have all of the equipment
needed to raise a puppy, but good veterinary care
for your growing puppy is essential to ensure
good health. Puppies are requiring to be
vaccinated every couple of weeks or so just like
human babies to ensure that they will grow up to
be happy healthy family members.
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Most veterinary hospitals start vaccines at or
around 8 weeks of age and vaccinate until at
least 16 weeks. If you have an older puppy or
adult dog that you need to get vaccinated, that
is okay, vaccines can be started at any age. Your
breeder may have started some of your puppies
vaccines at 6 or 7 weeks of age and that is fine
as well. Your breeder may have also started
de-worming your dog for internal parasites also.
If they have not, then the veterinarian will ask
for a stool sample to be brought in at the first
visit to check for internal parasites such as
round worms, hook worms, and whip worms, giardia
and coccidia.
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As soon as you get your new puppy you should make
an appointment with your veterinarian to make
sure that your puppy is happy and healthy. They
will check for congenital defects such as cleft
palate, open fontanel (soft spot on top of the
head), loose knee caps, heart murmurs and loose
hips. If you have any questions about house
training, behaviour, what kinds of food, toys,
crate, or any health questions, ensure you ask
your veterinarian.
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Throughout your puppies next few months it will
be getting vaccinated every 2-4 weeks. These
vaccines are important to stop the transmission
of some viruses and diseases that can be
transferred from mother to puppy and puppy to
puppy. Some examples would be Bordetella a very
contagious upper respiratory virus that causes a
goose like honking cough. It is usually treated
with an antibiotic and causes no long term
damage. Another example would be Parvovirus a
very contagious gastrointestinal virus that
causes vomiting, bloody diarrhoea, lack of
appetite, and sloughing of the GI tract. If
caught early, this virus is treatable, but can be
expensive to treat and is potentially fatal.
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At around age 5-6 months you will want to have
your puppy spayed or castrated. In males this
will help with marking of their territory and
aggression issues, and decrease the likelihood of
testicular cancer and prostate issues when they
are older as well as not having unwanted litters
of puppies. In females it helps decrease the
likelihood of breast and ovarian cancer when they
get older as well as not having unwanted
litters.   With good veterinary care you can
ensure that your puppy will grow into a happy and
healthy adult dog. Find a renowned dog grooming,
Gold Coast based centre that offers high level of
services.
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