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First Year Developmental Changes That Most Newfoundland Puppies Show

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.

Dogs start to hear, see and smell between week three and week five. During this period, your dogs are sensitive to the environment. There sensory systems are well developed to enable them detect activities going around them. They are also able to interact with their litter-mates and mother with much ease. Another change you will observe is that the dogs will become more playful, walk, bark, and bite their litter-mates.

Puppies start experiencing a sense of freedom at the age of five to seven weeks. At this stage, they are ready to be weaned and in fact, their habits are not understood by many since their wanton curiosity is growing at a higher degree. At this stage your puppy may exhibit some fears. However, it is the most appropriate stage to introduce an environment that is filled with stimulation and diversity. It is also the right stage where they develop some sort of intimacy with the humans around them.

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.

Your dogs will start to develop teeth at week thirteen to sixteen. One sign of teeth development is seeing your dogs with undying desire to chew every object they come across. The dogs also become aware of themselves. They start to be hardheaded. They refuse to hinder to certain rules and regulations they once adhered to. They seem wanting to be more independent. Training at this stage is quite challenging, as the dogs are adamant to hinder to instructions.

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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