Buying a thoroughbred puppy from manufacturers, you know for sure date of his birth. But how to be if the puppy was picked up on the street? And it is possible, he is bought in the market and you are gnawed by doubts: and whether the age is truly specified? Especially, if dog of small breeds.
Instruction
1. The age of a puppy up to 1 month can be determined quite precisely. The umbilical cord dries up and falls off for the third day of life. Between the fifth and seventh day, ear canals open, the puppy can be guided by hearing and always creeps to heat. On the tenth - the fourteenth day eyes open. By third week of life the puppy begins to get up independently on paws, plays with peers, bites them for ears, paws.
2. From the twentieth - the twenty fifth day when cutters and canines on the upper jaw are cut, age of a puppy, as well as adult dog, determine by teeth. From the twenty sixth to the thirty second day all foreteeth, as a rule, are cut through. Milk teeth differ from constants not only quantity. They have characteristic light transparency, not such strong and much more small than teeth of an adult dog.
3. Second teeth bright white, dense, brilliant. The first cutters change: at first hooks (it is couple of cutters, the first from the center) - from four to five months, and then and the others. In five months the top canines have to be cut through. The lower canines appear a bit later. Dairy canines have to drop out by seven months. If it did not occur, the veterinarian can remove them.
4. Since seven months the dog has all second teeth. They are porcelain-white, brilliant, without signs of deleting. By a year the teeth get the final size and a form. Cutters have a characteristic appearance of "shamrocks". Extent of deleting and yellowing of teeth are signs for determination of age of already adult dog.