As far as the vaccines go, ensure that your puppy is up to date and considered protected....
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That's a great question. If you've had a puppy anytime in the recent past, you remember that we saw you a lot....
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Preventative care is critical to have, especially starting with young puppies....
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Bare minimum once a year but, more realistically, I think twice a year is probably a better schedule to fall into because it allows the dog ......
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Some products aren't necessarily monthly, but more commonly, they are. So for example, here we have Simparica TRIO....
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Illnesses such as Lyme disease, ehrlichiosis, anaplasmosis and Rocky Mountain spotted fever are all things that are human type of tick-borne diseas...
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At the first visit, we're going to ask you many questions. We're going to check on what the vaccine schedule has been so far....
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Puppies can be on puppy food as early as four weeks old....
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During labor. The big four categories. If it's been more than two hours between a puppy....
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In a whelping box. So what does that look like? What's a whelping box?...
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So usually, they don't start showing until the last trimester, so that's the last two to three weeks....
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Once the dog's given birth, again, stay out of the way and let Mama do her thing as much as you can. But what does that look like?...
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Well, for obvious reasons, if we're preventing things like infectious diseases, for example, we give a rabies vaccination to prevent that dog from ...
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It depends. So dogs do very well on their own, and that's fine. And that's plan A....
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If you suspect your dog is pregnant, the best thing to do is get her to a veterinarian....
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Only if there's a problem. She knows what she’s doing....
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So preventative care is stopping diseases before they start.
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So things you would look out for would be nesting behavior—the mama dog trying to find a quiet corner and make an area for her to have puppies....
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Dog preventative care is kind of a misunderstanding....
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Number one, pregnancy duration is 63 days, give or take....