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Developmental Changes You Expect From Newfoundland Puppies

By Christopher Sanders


Most people are eager to have a young puppy at home because they are easy to train and manage. However, most people do not know the right age of any puppy on sale. The bigger challenge that a big number of buyers have is understanding the changes they should expect from the Newfoundland puppies they have bought within the first year. This is what you may expect.

At the age of five to three weeks old, it may be termed as the active stage of the dogs. Their sensory system starts to develop effectively and they are now aware of their environment. At this age, they are able to hear, smell and see. They are able to growl and chase, play, wiggle their tails, bare their teeth, and also get involved in activities engage their litter mates. It is also at this age that they are able to socialize and interact with their mothers and litter mates.

At the age of five to seven weeks, the dogs begin to develop independence character and they are ready to be weaned. Many people do not understand most of the habits the dogs develop at this age because their uninhibited curiosity is exponentially growing. Though your puppy will seem to develop certain fears, it is the right time to introduce them to environments abundant with stimulation and variety. Furthermore, it is the right time to expose them to humans to help them develop deep attachments.

The sensory system of most dogs develops fully at week seven to nine. Here you will notice that your dogs are very curious to discover new things. They will do crazy things with an aim of learning new things. They also become more mature, in the way they behave when with people and litter-mates.

During this age, the dogs also begin to treat the world around them with caution and become fearful to both sounds and movements. In fact, they begin fearing activities they once easily handled such as playing with certain toys and entering or sitting in crates. If you notice the puppy has developed this new attitude, avoid painful, frightening and traumatic situations at this age to avoid weakening their self-confidence.

At the age of nine to twelve weeks, the puppy begins to become very sensitive to the environment and this can be noted very clearly. Their mobility skills begin to grow also. Puppies are able to know the behavior that are fit in certain times, even though their attention span is known to be short at this age. They treat you and your family members around as their close litter mates and do their best to win your attention.

Teeth development or teething is evident when the dogs are thirteen to sixteen weeks old. Many puppy owners detect teething when they find the dogs with incessant desire to chew any object they come across. Those training their dogs can attest that dogs begin to defy certain training rules and commands at this age. This occurs because they are still eager to explore the environment further without you.

Due to curiosity of exploration, dogs at sixteen weeks and above may still be in the chewing phase. Remember at this age the puppy is through with teething and the training level should now advance to another. Such training include, walking on different objects such grass, tiles, carpet among others. They should also be allowed to interact with people of different kinds such as gender and age.




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