Dog Health Care: Be Careful Where you Buy Your Puppy

It is important when buying a puppy to exercise caution. Buying a puppy from the wrong place could leave you dealing with all types of dog health care problems.This is because of the risk that you might unknowingly buy a puppy from a puppy farm.

Puppy farms do not promote dog health care.On the contrary the puppies that come from them are rarely healthy. Such puppies often suffer with grave physical and psychological illness.Farmed puppies are likely to demonstrate behavioural problems.

Such problems are caused by the situation in which these puppies are kept.Because puppy farms are just breeding facilities with profit as the only concern, the dogs are kept in poor conditions.They have little space to move around and almost no human contact.

Health wise the dogs suffer too.They are fed poor quality foods in small quantities and mother dogs are malnourished. Females are forced to breed as often as they physically can from the age of four months onwards, only being allowed to stop when they die or become too ill. This frequent breeding leaves both mother and puppies unhealthy.In order to increase profits, puppies are taken away from their mothers too early so that she may then go on have another litter.And this coupled with lack of human interaction causes behavioural problems and dog health care problems.

Unfortunately, shop-bought puppies are almost certainly sourced from puppy farms, so it is not a good idea to buy from pet shops.Internet and newspaper adverts are also risky. As such, anyone considering buying a puppy from an advert found in a newspaper or online should be sure they see the puppies with their mother. If the seller makes excuses about the whereabouts of the mother then they should not be trusted.Farmed puppies might be offered cheaper than the going rate, but the saving is next to nothing when extra future vet bills, behavioural problems and heart break are taken into account. Ask dog owning friends and family for breeder recommendations instead of buying a farmed puppy.