Bringing Your Puppy Home: What supplies will you need?
Before you bring your puppy home, be sure you have the following supplies:
-Premium puppy food (preferably 4Health) to get your new puppy off to a good start. Feed your puppy a formula designed for puppies. Like a baby, he needs nutritious, highly digestible food.
-Stainless steel, non-tip food and water bowls.
-Identification tags with your puppy's name, your name, and phone number.
-A home and travel crate that's airline approved and will accommodate your puppy's adult size. This crate will serve as your puppy's new "den" at home, when traveling or riding to the veterinarian's office. His scent in the crate will provide comfort and a sense of security during these stressful times.
-Stain remover for accidental soilings. **This will happen** A young puppy has no bladder control and will need to urinate immediately after eating, drinking, sleeping or playing. At night, he will need to relieve himself at least every three hours. Don't punish an accident. Never push his nose in the waste or scold him. He won't understand, and may learn to go to the bathroom when you're out of sight. Praise your puppy every time he goes to the bathroom outside.
-Brushes and combs suited to your puppy's coat.
-Dog shampoo, toothbrush and paste.
-High-quality, safe chew toys to ease teething.
-Flea, tick and parasite controls.
-Nail clippers.
-And of course plenty of treats.
Making Your Home Safe
To make your home safe for your new puppy, eliminate potential hazards around the house and pay attention to the following items:
-Keep breakable objects out of reach.
-Deny access to electrical cords by hiding or covering them; make outlets safe with plastic outlet plugs.
-Safely store household chemicals.
-Keep the following house and garden plants out of reach: poinsettias, azaleas, rhododendrons, dumb cane, Japanese yew, oleander and English ivy among others.
-In the garage, be sure engine lubricants and other poisonous chemicals (especially antifreeze) are safely stored.
-If you own a pool or hot tub, check the cover or the surrounding fence to be sure they're in good condition.
-If you provide your puppy with an outdoor kennel, place it in an area that provides sun and shelter in the pen; be sure the kennel is large enough to comfortably accommodate your puppy's adult size.
Toxic Foods & Plants
-Alcoholic beverages
-Avocado
-Chocolate (all forms)
-Coffee (all forms)
-Fatty Foods
-Macadamia Nuts
-Moldy or spoiled foods
-Onions or onion powder
-Raisins and Grapes
-Salt
-Yeast Dough
-Garlic
-Products sweetened with XYLITOL (like chewing gum or sugarless candy)
Some Plants:
-Aloe Vera
-Amarylillis
-Apple Leaf Croton
-Apricot (pit)
-Asparagus Fern
-Autumn Crocus
-Avacado (fruit and pit)
-Azalea
-Baby's Breath
-Bird of Paradise
-Bittersweet
-Branching Ivy
-Buckey
-Buddist Pine
-Caladium
-Calla Lily
-Castor Bean
-Ceriman
-Charming Dieffenbachia
-Cherry (seeds and wilting leaves)
-Chinese Evergreen
-Christmas Rose
-Cineraria
-Clematis
-Cordatum
-Corn Plant
-Cornstalk Plant
-Croton
-Cuban Laurel
-Cutleaf Philodendron
-Cycads
-Cyclamen
-Daffodil
-Devil's Ivy
-Dieffenbachia
-Dracaena Palm
-Dragon Tree
-Dumb Cane
-Easter Lily (especially in cats!!!!)
-Elaine
-Elephant Ears
-Emerald Feather
-English Ivy
-Fiddle-leaf fig
-Florida Beauty
-Foxglove
-Fruit Salad Plant
-Geranium
-German Ivy
-Giant Dumb Cane
-Glacier Ivy
-Gold Dieffenbachia
-Gold Dust Dracaena
-Golden Pothos
-Hahn's Self-Branching Ivy
-Heartland Philodendron
-Hurricane Plant
-Indian Rubber Plant
-Janet Craig Dracaena
-Japanese Show Lily (especially cats !!!)
-Jeusalem Cherry
-Kalanchoe
-Lacy Tree Philodendron Lily of the Valley Madagascar Dragon Tree Marble Queen Marijuana Mexican Breadfruit Miniature Croton Mistletoe Morning Glory Mother-in Law's Tongue Narcissus Needlepoint Ivy Nephytis Nightshade Oleander Onion Oriental Lily (especially in cats!!!) Peace Lily Peach (wilting leaves and pits) Pencil Cactus Plumosa Fern Poinsettia (low toxicity) Poison Ivy Poison Oak Pothos Precatory Bean Primrose Red Emerald Red Princess Red-Margined Dracaena Rhododendron Ribbon Plant Saddle Leaf Philodendron Sago Palm Satin Pothos Schefflera Silver Pothos Spotted Dumb Cane String of Pearls Striped Dracaena Sweetheart Ivy Swiss Cheese Plant Taro Vine Tiger Lily (especially cats!!!) Tomato Plant (green fruit, stem and leaves) Tree Philodendron Tropic Snow Dieffenbachia Weeping Fig Yew
-Premium puppy food (preferably 4Health) to get your new puppy off to a good start. Feed your puppy a formula designed for puppies. Like a baby, he needs nutritious, highly digestible food.
-Stainless steel, non-tip food and water bowls.
-Identification tags with your puppy's name, your name, and phone number.
-A home and travel crate that's airline approved and will accommodate your puppy's adult size. This crate will serve as your puppy's new "den" at home, when traveling or riding to the veterinarian's office. His scent in the crate will provide comfort and a sense of security during these stressful times.
-Stain remover for accidental soilings. **This will happen** A young puppy has no bladder control and will need to urinate immediately after eating, drinking, sleeping or playing. At night, he will need to relieve himself at least every three hours. Don't punish an accident. Never push his nose in the waste or scold him. He won't understand, and may learn to go to the bathroom when you're out of sight. Praise your puppy every time he goes to the bathroom outside.
-Brushes and combs suited to your puppy's coat.
-Dog shampoo, toothbrush and paste.
-High-quality, safe chew toys to ease teething.
-Flea, tick and parasite controls.
-Nail clippers.
-And of course plenty of treats.
Making Your Home Safe
To make your home safe for your new puppy, eliminate potential hazards around the house and pay attention to the following items:
-Keep breakable objects out of reach.
-Deny access to electrical cords by hiding or covering them; make outlets safe with plastic outlet plugs.
-Safely store household chemicals.
-Keep the following house and garden plants out of reach: poinsettias, azaleas, rhododendrons, dumb cane, Japanese yew, oleander and English ivy among others.
-In the garage, be sure engine lubricants and other poisonous chemicals (especially antifreeze) are safely stored.
-If you own a pool or hot tub, check the cover or the surrounding fence to be sure they're in good condition.
-If you provide your puppy with an outdoor kennel, place it in an area that provides sun and shelter in the pen; be sure the kennel is large enough to comfortably accommodate your puppy's adult size.
Toxic Foods & Plants
-Alcoholic beverages
-Avocado
-Chocolate (all forms)
-Coffee (all forms)
-Fatty Foods
-Macadamia Nuts
-Moldy or spoiled foods
-Onions or onion powder
-Raisins and Grapes
-Salt
-Yeast Dough
-Garlic
-Products sweetened with XYLITOL (like chewing gum or sugarless candy)
Some Plants:
-Aloe Vera
-Amarylillis
-Apple Leaf Croton
-Apricot (pit)
-Asparagus Fern
-Autumn Crocus
-Avacado (fruit and pit)
-Azalea
-Baby's Breath
-Bird of Paradise
-Bittersweet
-Branching Ivy
-Buckey
-Buddist Pine
-Caladium
-Calla Lily
-Castor Bean
-Ceriman
-Charming Dieffenbachia
-Cherry (seeds and wilting leaves)
-Chinese Evergreen
-Christmas Rose
-Cineraria
-Clematis
-Cordatum
-Corn Plant
-Cornstalk Plant
-Croton
-Cuban Laurel
-Cutleaf Philodendron
-Cycads
-Cyclamen
-Daffodil
-Devil's Ivy
-Dieffenbachia
-Dracaena Palm
-Dragon Tree
-Dumb Cane
-Easter Lily (especially in cats!!!!)
-Elaine
-Elephant Ears
-Emerald Feather
-English Ivy
-Fiddle-leaf fig
-Florida Beauty
-Foxglove
-Fruit Salad Plant
-Geranium
-German Ivy
-Giant Dumb Cane
-Glacier Ivy
-Gold Dieffenbachia
-Gold Dust Dracaena
-Golden Pothos
-Hahn's Self-Branching Ivy
-Heartland Philodendron
-Hurricane Plant
-Indian Rubber Plant
-Janet Craig Dracaena
-Japanese Show Lily (especially cats !!!)
-Jeusalem Cherry
-Kalanchoe
-Lacy Tree Philodendron Lily of the Valley Madagascar Dragon Tree Marble Queen Marijuana Mexican Breadfruit Miniature Croton Mistletoe Morning Glory Mother-in Law's Tongue Narcissus Needlepoint Ivy Nephytis Nightshade Oleander Onion Oriental Lily (especially in cats!!!) Peace Lily Peach (wilting leaves and pits) Pencil Cactus Plumosa Fern Poinsettia (low toxicity) Poison Ivy Poison Oak Pothos Precatory Bean Primrose Red Emerald Red Princess Red-Margined Dracaena Rhododendron Ribbon Plant Saddle Leaf Philodendron Sago Palm Satin Pothos Schefflera Silver Pothos Spotted Dumb Cane String of Pearls Striped Dracaena Sweetheart Ivy Swiss Cheese Plant Taro Vine Tiger Lily (especially cats!!!) Tomato Plant (green fruit, stem and leaves) Tree Philodendron Tropic Snow Dieffenbachia Weeping Fig Yew