Buying a puppy of a mittelschnauzer, you have to be sure that it is that breed which is suitable for accommodation in your house. Mitteli is dogs with pronounced character, they are balanced and easily give in to training, but will not call them phlegmatic persons in any way, they are very mobile and vigorous.
What to pay attention when choosing a puppy to
The standard recommendation when choosing a puppy of any breed, first of all, to pay attention to behavior boughs. If it is the sane dog but who is not slaughtered or the spiteful hysterical woman, you will have a confidence, as your puppy has a healthy mentality that is very important for further education and training. At your emergence of a bough, of course, can begin a bark, in the house the stranger, puppies immediately will join it also. But already in a couple of minutes, having made sure that you are a guest, but not the enemy, the dog will calm down, and the puppies who are let out for survey and acquaintance also absolutely can cease to pay attention to you, having been engaged in a game.
After that pay attention as mother and puppies contains, they have to look well-groomed. As the age - two months in which the dung is usually activated, rather small, unambiguously to define which of puppies will become future champion, it is just impossible. If the owner begins to recommend persistently to you any puppy as future champion, it is not necessary to trust it especially. At this age the puppies are still angular and clumsy, their addition is disproportionate, and movements are not always coordinated. But at them the shape of a skull has to be considerably extended already, legs have to be thick and direct, corners of skakatelny joints – accurately expressed. At mittelschnauzers it is also possible to refer to signs of a good exterior a broad chest and a short waist.
Puppies in two months can have a dense constitution, but thick they should not be any more. Eyes already have to be clear, a look – directed. Check a bite that it was nozhnitseobrazny. Examine a mouth - language and gums of a puppy have to have pink color. It has to have free wool, a characteristic color – black or "salt with pepper".
Features of care for a puppy of a mittelschnauzer
The main characteristic of care for mittelschnauzers is need of a hairstyle – trimming which is done twice a year, beginning already with six-month age. This serious test for a dog, especially if she is cut for the first time. To accustom to treat calmly quietly this procedure it is necessary from the earliest age. Use for this purpose the distracting maneuvers or positive stimulation – toys, delicacies. If necessary also the strict hail can be required. For especially sensitive places on the head, ears and a neck it is necessary to use not the machine for trimming which will make a hairstyle painful, and special thinning shears. Thanks to regular trimming, in the apartment where there lives a mittelschnauzer, there is no dog wool on upholstered furniture and carpets, there is no characteristic smell.