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⚠️ Warning⚠️

Xylitol is now being marketed as Birch sugar. This ingredient is highly toxic to dogs so please check the labels of any human food you feed your pups.

If you think your pup has ingested Xylitol, please call your local vet for further direction ASAP.

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SKELETAL DEVELOPING IN A .

When you get a 8/12 week old puppy, keep in mind this image!

His bones don't even touch yet. They walk great with large, flexible legs and wobbly moves because their joints are composed of muscles, tendons and ligaments covered in skin. Nothing fits right or has a real grip yet. 🦴

When overworked or didn't restrict your exercise to keep you from doing too much during this time, it doesn't give you the opportunity to grow properly. Every big jump or bounce race causes bone impacts. In reasonable amounts, it's not problematic and it's the normal use to which every animal is committed. 🐾

I recommended the length of exercise for puppies is 5 minutes for every month of their age. This means 20 mins for a 16-week-old puppy. However, if this 20 minutes consisted of 15 minutes chasing after a ball, this could be extremely harmful not just physically but also mentally. So I like to advise puppy owners what type of exercise to do with their puppies rather than focus on the length of time.

A well-formed body is something that comes from excellent parenting and education, BOTH, not just one.

Once he grows up, you'll have the rest of his life to play with and perform high-impact exercises with him. So keep calm while they're still small puppies and give them the gift that can only be given once.

Let’s get a working plan

Start with Nose and troubleshooting games
“Puppies love to use their nose for searching and working things out and the good news is you don’t have to spend a fortune on the latest interactive feeding toy. Use your imagination. Hide food under tennis balls in a muffin tray, a rolled-up towel, empty egg boxes or just a cardboard box filled with other safe bits of recycling.

Go on a sniff walk
Take your puppy to a new place and just let them sniff. This could be for 20-30 minutes providing they are not running around. Sniffing will wear your puppy out more than physical exercise.

Do a training walk
Drive your puppy to a quite location and practice all the things you’ve learnt in class: eye contact, sit, down, loose lead walking and a little bit of recall and then pop them in the car again and take them home. 20 – 30 mins again is fine with breaks in between your training sessions. Working your puppy’s brain is another sure fired way to having a relaxed and tired puppy when you get home.

Go for a short walk from home
It’s good to get your puppy used to walking from your house but just don’t go far. Let them sniff, stop and take in the world around them. Take your time, it doesn’t matter if you only get 100 metres down the road before you have to turn around and go back home.

Take your puppy on the road
Take your puppy out and about so they get to have lots of positive experiences in new places, just be careful not to overwhelm them. Take a toy, chew and some treats with you and just sit with your puppy somewhere and let them observe and watch new things from a distance, rewarding them for being calm. Sit outside a quiet café or pub and give them a chew. You could be out with your puppy for an hour as long as only 20mins of this hour was doing anything physical.

Play with your puppy
Play is a great way to bond with your new puppy and it will also give them an outlet for their high energy levels. Use a long tug toy and get your puppy interested in the toy by making it move along the ground. Keep the movement slow and low to the ground so your puppy doesn’t have to run and jump to get the toy. Once they have hold of it you can engage in a gentle game of tug. Again, keep your movements slow and not vigorous, you don’t want to get your puppy too excited, if this happens then stop play for a while, wait for puppy to calm down and then start again. Keep play sessions short and always swap toy for a treat when you want to end play.

Play ‘find it’
Hide some tasty treats around the house or in the garden and let your puppy go find them. You could use a toy instead. Make it easy for them at first and gradually increase the difficulty.” https://www.canineconnectionsherts.co.uk/blog-post/how-long-should-i-exercise-my-puppy/