As you prepare for your new puppy pick-up, we wanted to share some info on the care of your new puppy. For the drive home, we suggest that you come with another person so one may drive and one may hold the puppy. A leash and small collar (as a gift to Bella's litter we have a collar for each of you) are recommended for pit stops along the way. Also please bring a bowl and some water for your puppy if you are making a long drive. Towels for accidents may also be helpful!
For the past 4 months (pregnancy to adoption) your puppy has been getting the best care possible. As their breeder, we've taken great care to:
For the past 4 months (pregnancy to adoption) your puppy has been getting the best care possible. As their breeder, we've taken great care to:
- provide a clean, spacious environment,
- ensure their physical health through proper nutrition, exercise, vet checks, and immunizations,
- introduce them at the proper times to experiences, people, and toys to build their mental skills and to ease future training for instance they are trained to newsprint, will come to the call "Come puppy, puppy, puppy!" for food, and are familiar with water, grass, pavement, living in our home, and being held and cuddled.
Your puppy will have only been on this lovely planet for approximately 9 weeks and is now in a rapid socialization stage. When you take it home, it will be very much in love with people! At 12 weeks it will enter a second "fear" stage, dependent on you to interpret the world. Gentle care should be given to reassure it.
When you first bring your pup home it may whine or cry. This is natural as it has been surrounded by siblings, their mother, and us since they were born. Do give it plenty of cuddling and love. A pup loves to be held securely next to your heart and to hear kissing noises as it reminds it of suckling next to its brothers and sisters. Your pup is conditioned to the following phrases and actions:
When you first bring your pup home it may whine or cry. This is natural as it has been surrounded by siblings, their mother, and us since they were born. Do give it plenty of cuddling and love. A pup loves to be held securely next to your heart and to hear kissing noises as it reminds it of suckling next to its brothers and sisters. Your pup is conditioned to the following phrases and actions:
- "kisses, kisses, kisses" in a high pitch and will kiss you back
- "here puppy, puppy, puppy" which makes it want to come to you
- newsprint at a far corner of their enclosures for elimination.
When the pup is in its crate, be sure to give it a toy to cuddle up to as this will comfort it and remind it of cuddling with its siblings and similar toys.
The food we have been feeding the pups is Nula Medal Series Puppy Food (https://www.petsmart.com/dog/food/dry-food/nulo-medalseries-puppy-food---grain-free-chicken-and-sweet-potato-5212528.html ). We recommend that you begin with Nula puppy food and then slowly blend it into the brand of puppy food that you prefer. When you bring your pup home, it is used to having food available most of the day with feeding times three or four times a day - morning, just before noon, and then between 4:00 (third feeding) and 6:30PM (forth feeding). You should cut this to three times a day - morning, noon, supper.
If you follow a regular schedule of feeding, walking, and crating and/or being with you cycling back to walking for elimination again, your pup should rapidly become house-broken. It is as much you being responsive to the pup's needs, as the pup learning to recognize and alert you that leads to successful house training. It prefers not to eliminate within its bedding or home environment. We highly recommend the book "The Art of Raising a Puppy" by the Monks of New Skete. It may be the best dog book we've ever read and we have read a lot! It has an excellent chapter "House-training and Pre-liminary Obedience Exercises" offering more details on feeding and schedules to follow for best training and puppy-owner happiness.
Another valuable link on raising your English Springer Spaniel puppy is found here: http://www.kirbymountainkennels.com/uploads/3/4/8/1/34817277/food_and_water_springer.pdf
Another valuable link on raising your English Springer Spaniel puppy is found here: http://www.kirbymountainkennels.com/uploads/3/4/8/1/34817277/food_and_water_springer.pdf
Spaniels are people loving dogs and dog loving dogs! Continue to socialize it in new situations - at public events and fairs, with children and elders, and at regular training sessions. There is a reason English Springer Spaniels are called joyful, velcro dogs. It just may be why they made it throughout Europe with early Roman soldiers to become our oldest known hunting dog and came to be known as both Spanish and English! They will stick to you to with care and responsiveness! Most of all, enjoy your pup and if you find the time, let us know how your new family is doing.
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