First Year Developmental Changes That Most Newfoundland Puppies Show

By Christopher Sanders


Most people are eager to have a young puppy at home because they are easy to train and manage. However, most people do not know the right age of any puppy on sale. The bigger challenge that a big number of buyers have is understanding the changes they should expect from the Newfoundland puppies they have bought within the first year. This is what you may expect.

Dogs start to hear, see and smell between week three and week five. During this period, your dogs are sensitive to the environment. There sensory systems are well developed to enable them detect activities going around them. They are also able to interact with their litter-mates and mother with much ease. Another change you will observe is that the dogs will become more playful, walk, bark, and bite their litter-mates.

At the age of five to seven weeks, the dogs begin to develop independence character and they are ready to be weaned. Many people do not understand most of the habits the dogs develop at this age because their uninhibited curiosity is exponentially growing. Though your puppy will seem to develop certain fears, it is the right time to introduce them to environments abundant with stimulation and variety. Furthermore, it is the right time to expose them to humans to help them develop deep attachments.

The sensory system of most dogs develops fully at week seven to nine. Here you will notice that your dogs are very curious to discover new things. They will do crazy things with an aim of learning new things. They also become more mature, in the way they behave when with people and litter-mates.

During this age, the dogs also begin to treat the world around them with caution and become fearful to both sounds and movements. In fact, they begin fearing activities they once easily handled such as playing with certain toys and entering or sitting in crates. If you notice the puppy has developed this new attitude, avoid painful, frightening and traumatic situations at this age to avoid weakening their self-confidence.

At the age of nine to twelve weeks, the puppy begins to become very sensitive to the environment and this can be noted very clearly. Their mobility skills begin to grow also. Puppies are able to know the behavior that are fit in certain times, even though their attention span is known to be short at this age. They treat you and your family members around as their close litter mates and do their best to win your attention.

Teeth development or teething is evident when the dogs are thirteen to sixteen weeks old. Many puppy owners detect teething when they find the dogs with incessant desire to chew any object they come across. Those training their dogs can attest that dogs begin to defy certain training rules and commands at this age. This occurs because they are still eager to explore the environment further without you.

Chewing may not stop even after the teeth are developed. At week sixteen, you may find your dogs with the desire to chew. Here the dogs chew due to curiosity to explore things. At this point, it is better to introduce more advanced training such as how to walk on linoleum, gravel, cement, carpet, blacktop, tile and grass. You should also expose your dogs to people of different races, ages, genders and handicaps.




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