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Choosing a puppy: (next)
4. Maintenance :
The maintenance of a healthy dog has some expensives that must be considered.
a) Feeding :
Dogs should be fed with their on food and people left overs are not suitable for dogs.
The breeder or veterinarian are the best people to inform the owner about the food that should be given during the dog life.
b) Veterinarian :
Every dog should be vaccine and desparitize annually.
Sickness and health problems, like in people, can also appear in a dog and some times this can be quite expensive.
c) Hygiene :
Apartment dogs have more expenses, since is necessary to buy proper bags to collect droppings in the street or to traine the dog to use a place, like a sand box.
But farm or yard dogs also need cleaning of the dropping site, witch implies trash bags and cleaning with detergents.
5. Training :
Some breeds imply more work and dedication by the owner for their training and socialization with people and other animals.
All dogs should have basic training, that can be or not administrated by the owner.
6. Breeding :
To breed a dog is not something light, since implies expensive health tests (like genetic diseases, dysphasia, eyes,… ); expensive with correct feeding of the mother and regular visits to the veterinarian to watch the pregnancy mother and after birth health; feeding and vaccination of the puppies; and the possibility of not having a proper owner or devolution of the puppy.
After all considerations, the choice of mother and father must be made with careful and analyses, in order to keep the race standards and have healthy puppies with good personalities.
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