23/03/2025
Happy world puppy day! 🐾🐶💛
It’s exciting when you get a new puppy, but make sure you cover the basics so that you and your puppy can look forward to a happy and healthy future!
Here are some key priorities on caring for your new puppy 🗝️
• Health checks:
Health checks give your vet or nurse an opportunity to carry out an examination of your new puppy. They’ll check that your new pet is in the best of health, provide advice for settling your puppy in - as well as being able to answer any questions that you may have.
• Pet insurance:
Insurance is important for your pet, accidents and illness can happen at any time, and it’s comforting to know that the cost of your pet's care will be covered if ever needed.
It is beneficial to cover your pet from a young age, that way if there are any issues in the early days, you will already have cover.The younger your pet is when you insure them, the better – insuring a pet without any existing conditions will mean any health issues they then face will be covered by your policy.
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• Vaccinations:
Most puppies will come from the breeder having had their first vaccination. If you don’t have the details of their first vaccination already, ask your breeder for them (you will need to provide this to your vet).
Your puppy’s next vaccination will need to be scheduled for 12 weeks of age, and the final vaccination at 16 weeks of age. Your puppy should not be mixing with other dog’s until they’ve had their second vaccination.
• Microchipping:
Get your new puppy microchipped as soon as possible [ it’s also a legal requirement of dog ownership ] It means that if your puppy did go missing, you’d stand a much higher chance of being reunited.
• Socialisation:
Socialisation of your new puppy is essential and needs to start as soon as possible. Socialisation is about getting your puppy used to this exciting new world; their environment and also the people, places, sights and sounds that they will come across in everyday life.
The window of opportunity lasts up until your new puppy is 16 weeks old. Taking into consideration that most people bring their puppy home just after they are eight weeks of age – you can see why it’s important to know what you need to do and get started as quickly as possible.
• Defleaing and worming:
Many people believe that you only need to protect your pet from parasites in the summer months. This isn’t the case. Although fleas are more active in the summer months, overall parasite protection is essential all year round.
For young puppies regular worming is key from an early age, as many will be born with worms that have been passed from their mother. These need to be eliminated as soon as possible.
Head over to our website to read more tips at https://www.medivetgroup.com/pet-care/pet-advice/new-puppy-key-priorities/
Comment below any photos of your puppies 🐕🦮🐩🐕🦺
It’s exciting when you get a new puppy, but make sure you cover the basics so that you and your puppy can look forward to a happy and healthy future.
