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Food we recommend and feed the Puppies - Life's Abundance Premium Health Food for Puppies and Adult Dogs. We love this food! Our puppies are doing really well on it and our adult dogs love it. It's a holistic all stage food. You can read more about it here. The puppies are eating the dry food. You cannot purchase this food in a pet store. It must be ordered online or by calling Phone: 877-387-4564 Hours 8:00 AM to 7:00PM EST Please use my ID Number: 20005984 when calling HealthyPetNet directly. Why is Life’s Abundance Better?Life’s Abundance foods are veterinarian-formulated with select ingredients help your dog achieve optimum health. We use a “fast-cook” process at low temperatures to help preserve the nutritional value of each and every wholesome ingredient. And we maintain strict inventory controls to ensure the quality and safety of our foods. Life’s Abundance foods are made with the finest
ingredients, including …
Choose Life’s Abundance for your dog because a recipe for a better life is more than meeting minimum requirements. Your puppy kit will include a small bag that will last a few days. Do not overfeed regardless of the pet’s acceptance and eagerness. Overfeeding is the most common cause of digestive upset in pets. Make sure you purchase the food before your puppy comes home. If you're in Florida, it only takes 1-2 days for the food to be delivered fresh. In other states it's 2-3 days. If you're going to switch to another brand of food. Please, do this gradually. Most Vets recommend you start out 3 parts old and 1 part new food. Gradually increase the new food over a 2 week period. Puppies have sensitive stomachs, the less stress you put on their systems, especially when they're changing homes, leaving littermates, Mom, etc. the better. CLICK HERE TO ORDER THE FOOD ONLINE - There are 146 cups of food in a 40lb. bag. Puppies eat 1/2 a cup, 3 times a day. A 40 pound bag will last 12 plus weeks. A 50lb dog will eat 2 cups a day. A 40 pound bag will last a 50 pound dog approximately 10.5 weeks. VITAMINS -
Order your Nuvet Plus Vitamins! (click here) or Call 1-800-474-7044 order code - 4576151 NuVet scientists, veterinarians and formulators began with the premise that most pet diets are lacking the proper amounts of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants. There are important nutrients that animals once received when they were living in a more primitive environment that are not available in the modern diet. Commercial pet foods contain numerous by-products that can make them poisonous, toxic and incapable of reducing the devastating effects of unstable oxygen molecules, also known as "free radicals." Free radicals have been implicated in more than fifty health problems in humans and animals including various forms of cancer, heart disease, arthritis, cataracts and premature aging. NUVET PLUS
Significantly reduces the risk or eliminate many problems that strike your pet:
Moss Creek Goldendoodles are started on NuVet Plus Vitamins – daily at 6 weeks of age. We highly recommend this vitamin for your new puppy. Your puppy kit will come with a 6-day supply. You will need to click on the NuVet Vitamin link above to order online before your puppy comes home. It takes about a week to get them. CRATES - Click her or on the banner below to order the crates we use and recommend.
Vet Appointment - Make appointment with Vet for new puppy wellness check up. Socialize your puppy - Some great articles that are a must read on early puppy socialization - Puppy Socialization Tips - Click Here! What is Puppy socialization? - Click Here! Why Socialize your puppy? - Click Here! Obedience classes - Start shopping for Obedience classes in your area. Health Risks of Parvo - You should not allow your puppy to be out in high risk public places - dog parks, pet stores, rest stops, doggy day care, kennels - until after the Parvo vaccinations have been completed, 16 weeks/4-months. You should wait at least 2 weeks after the last booster. Speak to your Vet about the risk in your area. If Parvo is not an issue in your area, you won't have to be so strict. Don't be afraid to socialize your puppy! This is a great article that is a must read for new puppy owners - Socialization Tips - Click Here! Potty training and crate training - gate off an area with the potty door in it. Use the same door every time you take your puppy out. Hang the bells (found in our store) on the door and ring them, with their foot. We say "Go Out" - Let's "GO OUT" once the puppy is on grass, we say "GO POTTY" - "LET'S GO POTTY" Goldendoodles are extremely smart and eager to please. Once they go potty, Praise them and tell them how fabulous they are for going potty outside. The key to house training your puppy is you have to be consistent and have patience. This is all new to your puppy. They don't know what you expect from them until you teach them. Never use anything but positive reinforcement with your Goldendoodle! They will understand quickly with just the tone of your voice. Watch your puppy constantly! If you can't watch the puppy, crate it. Crating the puppy for naps and periodically during the day will teach your puppy to hold for longer period of times and get your puppy used to being calm it's crate faster. Always potty your puppy before and after crating. The rule of thumb for how long your puppy can hold it in the crate during the day is it's age in months. At 8 weeks old - 2 months, your puppy can hold it 2 hours in the crate. 3 months, 3 hours. We begin crate training at 3 weeks. We start by leaving a crate in with the puppies with no door. They love to pile in and sleep together. As they grow, we introduce a second crate and this time we leave the doors on. We start by closing them in for 10-15 minutes at a time, before gradually working up to 4-6 hours at night. We take the water away by 6 pm. The last time out is around 11 pm. Once your puppy is asleep, if s/he wakes wakes up crying in the middle of the night, s/he probably has to go out. You should take the puppy out, say "go potty" or any cue but be consistent, when he/she does, it's directly back in the crate. Let them know that middle of the night trips is all business. No playtime, no drinking etc. We recommend a 42" or 48" wire crate as the permanent crate for standards and the 36" for Mini's. Make sure the crate has a divider. You will want to section off a small space in the beginning, just large enough for your puppy to stand up, turn around and lay down in. You can put a blanket around the crate to make it feel more like a den. Puppies, by nature, prefer to be clean and will not lay where they have had an accident. This makes the crate an invaluable training tool, as it is safer for your puppy to be crated than unsupervised. Teaching the
puppy to sleep in the crate and not soil it, is an intensive and
exhaustive task. We do more than just introduce your puppy to a
crate. We actually train your puppy to sleep in its own crate
through the night. The early days of this process are the most
difficult. We have implemented a system that slowly teaches your
puppy to enjoy being in the crate without soiling it. This makes for
many sleepless nights on our part. We feel this early head start to
crate training makes the transition to your home less stressful for
the puppy and you! Our puppy owners are worth this extra effort.
Goldendoodle ear care - Ear care is very important! The number one reason dogs visited a Vet last year was ear infections. This is not Doodle specific but with all dogs. We use Derma Pet's Malacetic Otic weekly and after every bath, swim and groomer appointment. Order online at CHOMP or purchase at your Vet's office. You can read more about proper ear care here. Goldendoodles are floppy eared dogs - which doesn't allow air flow to the ears. It's very important to keep their ears dry and clean. Don't be afraid to let them swim! Just make sure you use this product or another drying solution afterwards. We have learned being proactive with ear care will save you lots of trips to the Vet. How to clean your dogs ears - click here!
Trained to the Bell - Poochie-Bells work! Hang them on the door you let your puppy out. Every time you take the puppy out, say 'Let's go out' and ring the bell with one of the puppies paws. Once you get to the grass you say 'Go Potty'. At first you will take them out often. For the first week or two they should be let out: ˇ when they wake up
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after they eat ˇ after they drink
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before and after they are crated
Thankfully puppies sleep a lot. But the trick is to let them
understand that outside is for relieving themselves. It's a new
concept for them - but if it's clear, then they will understand
what they need to do. The less accidents they have, the faster
they learn. It takes some dogs only a few days to learn to ring
the bell to ask to go out. (And for a while there, you're
trained to the bell, because they go often - but it's worth it
in the long run.)
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