Many people love loyal and loving dogs. Before getting a dog, choosing a dog is an important task that should not be ignored. It is easy to buy a dog of the week if you are not careful. Today, I will teach you 10 ways to pick a healthy dog and avoid being cheated by unscrupulous merchants.

1. Look at your mental outlook
The mental outlook is intuitive, at a glance, the healthy dog looks energetic, lively and active; On the contrary, it looks listless and listless. Nine times out of ten, it is a sick or weak dog.

2. Look at your body
Observation of the dog's body appearance can also see the health status of the dog, a healthy dog must be strong, agile and powerful, thin dog if not particularly like, it is better not to choose, because its immunity, disease resistance will be lower than the healthy normal dog.

3. Check the fur
A healthy puppy's hair is soft and shiny, and you can pick it apart to see if its skin is healthy and pink. If some of the hair has a lot of small black spots, dander, or skin color is different from other puppies, then you should choose a new dog.

4. Look at the nose
Healthy dogs tend to have black, wet noses, while unhealthy dogs tend to have dry, discolored noses.

5. Check your mouth
Oral examination is generally to see secretions, teeth, gums, breath these several aspects. A healthy dog will not have any unusual secretions in its mouth except saliva. If a frothy secretions are found, the dog's health is in question. Teeth white and neat, gingival pink no halitosis is the characteristics of oral health, to the dog brushing or grinding teeth can also play a cleaning teeth to remove halitosis, mainly depending on whether there is secretions.

6. Check your ears
Ears are easy to breed bacteria ear mites, ear hanging dogs when the focus of the inspection object, check the dog ear dry is not clean, ear mites can be.

7. Look at the eyes
Puppy's eyes should be clear water Ling, eye bloodshot, eyeball white film, canthus flesh prominent (indicating that the lacrimal gland has a problem) are unhealthy symptoms. If the corner of the eye has a lot of poop, there are tears, this is that the dog diet is not healthy.

8. Belly rub
Feel the dog's belly, is it soft, there is no obvious hard object hard block, if there is a dog constipation can not defecate or there is a gastrointestinal tumor, foreign body.

9. Look at walking movements
By looking at the dog walking movement, we can see that the puppy physical fitness is good, lumbar leg and foot have congenital diseases and defects or acquired injuries.

10. Look at the excrement
Look at the dog stool urine is not normal, too loose poop, urine color is not normal, even blood stool hematuria are unhealthy characteristics, must avoid choosing this dog.

Breeding tips:

1 home just raised a dog, may wish to prepare some teeth grinding snacks, such as the following chicken jerky, on the one hand is can be used as a dog training reward, especially training fixed point when the toilet snack reward is more effective, on the other hand can also give the dog teeth grinding, cleaning mouth, promote the growth of permanent teeth.

2. The gastrointestinal digestion of the puppy is not very good, the staple food can eat milk cake, or feed it sheep milk powder soaked soft puppy dog food. After three months of age is the main growth period of dogs, should choose moderate soft and hard, balanced nutrition, high protein and low fat, containing probiotics and calcium puppy dog food as the staple food, like the following dog food is very in line with the needs of puppies, can also be mixed with a small amount of vegetables and meat as complementary food, 100 percent to meet the nutritional needs of puppy growth and development.

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