The cocker spaniel is very active and cheerful dog who requires to herself an attention maximum. Kids of this breed are so lovely and nice that many get them under the influence of the moment. Naturally, it is wrong. To choose a good puppy of a cocker spaniel, attentively examine appearance of all kids presented by the manufacturer and observe their behavior.
Instruction
1. Before starting the choice of a puppy of a cocker spaniel, ask the manufacturer to show you mom of kids. Pay attention to in what physical shape she is whether enough she is well-groomed. Remember that the exhausted started dog just can have no healthy puppies.
2. The puppy of a cocker spaniel acquired by you should not be less than 6-8 weeks old. If to separate the kid from mother too early, most likely, he will be often ill and will grow up weak.
3. Do not choose the least and shchuplenky puppy from all dung at all even if it will seem to you lovelier, than others. It is quite probable that in the future it will have problems not only with development, but also with health.
4. Very attentively study appearance of kids. At a healthy puppy of a cocker spaniel have to be: the strong symmetrically developed body, strong paws, beautiful claws, soft small pillows of paws without outgrowths and hems, a clear skin without reddenings and scratches, brilliant wool and a warm soft tummy.
5. Very attentively examine a muzzle of a puppy of a cocker spaniel. The nose has to be damp and cold, the surface of ears – light pink, and eyes – clean and brilliant without purulent allocations and heat-spots. Glance in a mouth to the kid. If you see clean pink gums and well developed white teeth, the puppy is healthy.
6. Pay attention to wool of kids. To two-month age the puppies of a cocker spaniel have to have a brilliant silky hair without bald spots, consolidations and dandruff, having replaced with itself a soft puppyish down.
7. Observe behavior of the puppy of a cocker spaniel who was pleasant to you. The kid should not be timid, show causeless aggression (to bite, to bark and grin incessantly). The puppy with balanced mentality, as a rule, quietly reacts to such external irritants as cotton in palms, knock at a door, a sound of the bunch of keys which fell to a floor.