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From Your New Puppy’s Eye View

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Can you imagine yourself as a puppy? Suddenly you’re taken from
a warm and familiar setting where doggy mom and human mom lived,
along with all your brothers and sisters and brought to an
unfamiliar place. The sounds are different. The scents are
different. The humans smell different. In some cases, there are
no other puppies to romp and play tag with. It is just you in
this strange, strange place. You don’t speak the language and
you don’t understand the customs here. You might start to shake
a little bit. You might want to hide, or you might cling to
whoever was the first person to get hold of you and take you
away from what was familiar to you. You might cry, run or even
pee on the floor.

Then imagine there is someone in this place able to translate
and explain everything to you in a calm and friendly way. Things
might start looking a little better.

Puppies are just like this. They have feelings and emotions much
like a human newborn or baby. They can’t articulate or speculate
on their new situation, but they definitely sense a change from
life with their littermates. They experience fear, panic,
happiness and excitement just like humans do. The main problem
with puppies, however, is that they cannot reason and they don’t
understand our language, whether it be English, Italian or
Chinese. They don’t understand complex sentences or yelling and
hitting either. These tactics frighten puppies. These adorable
little foreigners need someone to speak to them in their own
language and to understand how it feels to be a puppy. Show them
some doggy empathy and do not feel your new puppy is rejecting
you or does not like you just because they whine a little bit,
try to run and hide from you or suddenly pee on your floor.

One way of showing your new puppy extra loving care is to dress
the new puppy in a warm fleece t-shirt (if it is cold in your
area) and perhaps a lightweight t-shirt or shirt if it is warm
where you live.

Try to have several little outfits on hand before you bring your
new puppy home, just as you would have several outfits on hand
before you would bring home a newborn from the hospital.

Dogs need lots of attention, especially the toy breed dogs. Dogs
do not accept social isolation well. They generally respond
positively to every loving gesture, including the types of
leashes, collars and clothes you put on them.