Those who dreams of a cheerful, devoted and simple pet in leaving should think of purchase of a pug. These amusing dogs perfectly get on with children, do not need long walks and daily care behind wool. Besides they are very affectionate, differ in good character and good health.
Instruction
1. Buying a puppy, think over his diet. You can feed a dog with ready-made industrial feeds or cook to it homemade food. If you chose the second option, give preference to low-fat beef and fish, mixed with rice or buckwheat. Include vegetables in a diet: squash, pumpkin, carrots, boiled cabbage. Surely give to a dog dairy products: cottage cheese, curdled milk, kefir. You should not feed pugs with pork, fat meat, smoked products and sweets.
2. Choosing ready-made feeds, you will save time. It is desirable to feed a dog with both canned food, and dry granules, alternating them. Manufacturers recommend professional brands of forages, but you can choose any options presented on sale. Be guided not by brands, and by preference of your pet and own financial opportunities.
3. Pugs are inclined to overeating. If your favourite gets fat, limit portions. Do not give to a dog too many delicacies. However from time to time tasty pieces will not prevent. The crude beef sugar stone, a piece of a peach or apple, ready granules with cereals and vitamins will become good addition to a diet.
4. Allocate to a dog the convenient location where she will feel safe. Pugs appreciate comfort therefore they will like soft stove benches with a fur or quilted upholstery. Consider that pugs very much like to sleep in a master's bed. If you do not approve such behavior, limit to a dog access to the bedroom.
5. It is necessary to walk a dog twice a day. Pugs do not love long walks, however will not refuse to run about in the park or in the forest. During wet and cold weather of the pet it is possible to dress in waterproof overalls which will protect a dog from cold.
6. Hair of a pug does not require labor-consuming care. It is enough to wipe a dog with a towel after walk and to wash with it paws. If you want to bath the pet, use soft dogs shampoo. After a bathtub put a warm plush robe on a pug - gentle dogs easily catch a cold. You watch purity of eyes and ears. Once a week you clean ears Q-tips, wipe eyes with a damp tampon. Having noticed purulent allocations, take away a dog to the veterinarian. Do not wash out an eye tea or boric acid, it can cause a burn of mucous.
7. Pugs are very sociable and do not take out loneliness. Try to play and talk to the pet every day. If the most part of day you are outdoors, think of the company for your favourite. Perhaps, it makes sense to get one more dog. Pugs well get on also with cats, and they will be especially glad to the representative of the breed.