Dwarfish sleek-haired, long-haired or wire-haired rates are the charming dogs differing in friendliness, independence and ingenuity. That future pet brought you only joy, pay special attention to the choice of a puppy. Do not buy the first animal - the thoroughbred dachshund is worthy attentive survey.
Instruction
1. If you are interested in a dog from a family tree, address only the checked manufacturers. The necessary address to you can be told in club of dog breeding. Consider that on especially perspective puppies from the titled parents the preliminary record can be organized.
2. Puppies are ready to moving from a native nest not earlier than in two months after the birth. To this age they cease to eat maternal milk and get used to firm food. Besides two-month puppies undergo obligatory expulsion of helminths and receive the first inoculation. The bred puppies of 3-5 months - too good option, especially for the beginning dog breeders.
3. Choosing a puppy, you do not hurry. Examine all dung, observe animals. You need a vigorous, active and curious dog. His cheerful and live nature - an indicator of good health and temperament. Do not take a shy puppy - you for certain will have problems with training.
4. Take a puppy on hands. The healthy dog has to be rather well-fed, however is not overfed. Dachshunds differ in a smooth body without "barrel-shaped" edges. At two-month age it is already possible to estimate animal proportions - they have to conform to pedigree standards. Too curve, thin paws, the disproportionate head or highly put ears - obvious defect of breed. The dwarfish rate has to have an equal back without hump or a provislost and a smooth tail without zalom.
5. Estimate a puppy color. On a black and subdead, brown or red skin there should not be white spots and even separate light hairs. The color of a dachshund has to be uniform, wool - smooth and brilliant. Turn the kid, consider a paunch, a throat and inside of paws. The healthy puppy has no scrapes, rash, scratches.
6. Examine a muzzle of future pet. Allocations from eyes, a nose or a mouth can be a signal of problems with health. Raise a tail - about an anus there should not be signs of a diarrhea. Glance in ears, check correctness of a bite.
7. Having made a choice, do not forget to issue a puppyish card of the pet at the manufacturer. Specify dates of inoculations, discuss a diet of the kid. The conscientious manufacturer will share with all of you subtleties of cultivation of a thoroughbred puppy.