Choosing a four-legged friend is not an easy task, especially if we are talking about decorative babies chihuahua. Cute and funny, they, however, they have their own characteristics, about which an ignorant person can and don’t know. How to choose a chihuahua and what you should know about before baby will become a member of the family?
Content
- 1. What criteria to evaluate
- 2. Features of the Chihuahua breed
- 3. Boy or girl
- 4. Problems due to savings
What criteria to evaluate
Obtaining a puppy is, of course, better in professional nurseries, and naturally, it is advisable to visit them. Choosing from many kids, you can get confused, but you still need to know how a healthy chihuahua puppy looks like:
- smooth-haired representatives of the breed should have a coat smooth, with a natural sheen. In longhair – it is thick and soft to the touch;
- the skin should be clean; dry skin, swelling, dandruff, the presence of irritated areas are a signal of unhealthy puppy (read more about dandruff in dogs);
- the eyes of puppies of this breed should be moist, excessive their dryness or increased lacrimation should be alarming;
- the ears should be clean, no discharge from the auricles or nasal passages should not be;
- the puppy’s limbs should be short and straight; ankles are located at some distance; to ensure no pathologies, you need to carefully probe the paws in the area joints
- it is worth paying attention to the behavior of the baby – it should be playful, funny;
- if the puppy has a feeble complexion and a swollen tummy, then this sign of helminths;
- if possible, it is worth evaluating the appetite of the future pet.
It is undesirable to take a puppy from a large litter, where the number of offspring exceeds 4 dogs. When exists the opportunity to look at the puppy’s parents, it’s better to do it. They are must have a healthy look. But it is worth considering that if the puppy is 2-2.5 months, then his mom may still not fully recover after childbirth and feeding, and look haggard and with dull hair.
If you have doubts about the health of the crumbs, you can ask him to measure the temperature. Normal indicator should be equal to 39 ° C.
The recommended age for a puppy ready to move to a new home is 1.5-2 months. In infants under 6 weeks of age, poorly formed psyche, they are more likely to experience a change of house, and in the future they can there are problems with education and training.
But older pets can be safely taken, as they have already received the basics of parenting and acquired an adult exterior, which is important for future show career.
Chihuahua breed features
Experts warn that reveal future properties of an adult individuals, based on puppy data, are extremely difficult even to professionals. But besides the general characteristics, there are several features that apply specifically to chihuahua puppies. For instance, you need to pay attention to what the puppy has a bite. Normal he is scissor-shaped: the upper teeth cover the lower. But direct bite is also allowed in the standard: when the upper and lower incisors are adjacent to each other.
But you should know that if a 6-week-old puppy has a direct bite, then as he grows up he can turn into a snack, which is significant defect for the individual participating in the exhibitions. At baby all milk teeth should be: 6 upper and 6 lower incisors, 4 fang.
Chihuahua boy under 6 months old, both testes located in the inguinal region. By six months they are lowering into the scrotum.
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Boy or girl
Having decided on the breed, sometimes the owners are at a crossroads, choose a chihuahua puppy girl or boy? Choosing a female is worth take into account that every 6-12 months the pet will pass “special” days, and at that moment she will require special care and attention. In general, Chihuahua girls are pretty neat, but all if the dog is used to sleeping on the owners bed, these days it’s better to put on her hygienic panties.
In addition, if the girl does not go to the tray, but to the street, this period she will attract dogs of the opposite sex. Can on it’s time to exclude the paddock or transfer them to the period when there are fewer dogs on the street. In principle, experts do not recommend decorative breeds for private breeding, as this may adversely affect the dog’s health and cause a number difficulties.
But if you still have such a goal, then you should choose a female bigger. So that the risks of labor difficulties are lower, and mommy could feed offspring, its weight should be about 2 kg. but and this does not exclude the likelihood of a difficult birth, so the future Mom will need specialist advice, and in some cases cesarean section.
Given the size of the dog and the accelerated dwarf metabolism rocks, which makes it difficult to choose the right dosage, anesthesia, used for surgery may result in death the outcome.
What are the characteristics of chihuahua boys? They look more solid and are ideal travel and travel companions. Character can be any, either good-natured or cocky. Actually, as with girls, it is difficult to determine in advance.
As for the search for a pair, this question may not be to affect if the pet does not have an exhibition career or not desire to do it. Doggie, not knowing the opposite sex, will not feel any discomfort about it sensations.
But if the baby is an enviable groom and a great party, then you have to knit it. In this case, it is likely that a male dog will mark the boundaries of its home during mating and do it after. You can get rid of this trouble more often taking the pet out to the street, or castrating it.
As for toilet training, it is believed that girls more understanding in this matter, but the boy is not so difficult to accustom. They get used to the tray well, the only thing here have your own preferences – a certain type of filler, newspapers or pieces of paper or an empty tray. Choosing the right option, problems with coping with the need in the right place will not be with male, not female.
Problems due to savings
As you know, Chihuahua crumbs are quite expensive, so many future owners are trying to cut costs by buying pet from dubious sellers. But this is not recommended, even if the puppy you are purchasing is exclusively for souls. ”
With financial difficulties, you should pay attention to less demanding breeds, because Chihuahua needs expensive food, tray filler, special care products and tools for wool and stuff.
The purchase of a dog without documents does not give any guarantee pure breed, as well as the lack of genetic and other deviations. And in famous nurseries only healthy ones are offered, vaccinated puppies having good makings.
