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Developmental Changes You Expect From Newfoundland Puppies

By Christopher Sanders


The desire of most home owners is to have dogs at home. Puppies are so adorable and easy to train. Also, dogs offer home owners one of the most exceptional companies. That said, the challenge most home owners face when raising dogs is what to expect as the dogs grow. Just like babies, dogs exhibit, many changes as they grow. The following are some of the changes you may witness as Newfoundland puppies grow.

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.

Many people who own dogs discover their teething age when they realize a great urge in the puppy to chew items and objects they find around. This happens in the age of thirteen to sixteen weeks. Here, the puppy desires to explore the environment on its own and for this reason, they begin to object some training rules and orders.

Chewing phase may continue even after the puppy is sixteen weeks and over. They will not chew because they are teething but because of unstoppable curiosity and exploration. Puppies past sixteen weeks should be trained to walk on the grass, tile, blacktop, carpet, cement, gravel and linoleum among others. You should also introduce them to people of different handicaps, races, genders and ages.




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