Puppies
Bichon
Puppies
- Puppies! Can we talk absolute CUTENESS! Adorable and beautiful… the “mini me” your adult dog will grow into… and you’re along for the entire journey.
- We strongly believe it’s essential for puppies to stay with their mom and litter mates until at least 8-9 weeks.
- It’s a no brainer - Puppies need a controlled, safe environment, with healthy and frequent meals to promote good growth and maturity.
- It’s important to give them a great head start to being the new member of your family.
- So when a puppy comes to your home, they’re ready to love and be loved.
- But it’s the additional time spent with mom and their litter mates where puppies REALLY learn how to be a “DOG-dog” – to growl, wrestle, play, behave, misbehave – and to socialize with humans – to cuddle, to lick a finger or your face - to find a place in this new (to them) human-puppy world.
We Don’t Talk About Boys Oh, Yes We Do!
What to Know About the Sweetest Companion Missing in Your Life
Let’s talk about Boys. Little male puppies to be specific.
You listened to the old, old tales from your grandparents or your mother’s second cousin you barely know. “They” say male dogs are no good because they mark the house with pee and hump anything and everything near them. Let’s be blunt. This is outdated thinking. Neutering Boy Dogs Changes Everything!
A good relationship with your companion pet, male or female, is based on a responsible, loving owner; the dog’s basic personality; extensive training; and especially with male dogs, being Neutered.
Boy puppies get a bad rap because, like all males of all species above a certain age, they’re looking for love in all the wrong places. Intact male dogs are more likely to mark their territory and be aggressive with other dogs because they view others as a potential sexual rival including female dogs. Who knew? These issues can be eliminated with early neutering.
Here’s the straight skinny. And please, check our comments with your favorite vet. They’re on your side.
A great time to neuter a Bichon male puppy is around the 6-month-old mark. Their personalities are fully developed, and the male hormones have barely started to kick in.
Neutering is a common, safe operation, removing the largest source of testosterone in a dog’s body. It reduces the risks of testicular cancer, prostate disease, and other dangerous health conditions. Typically, neutered dogs live longer lives than unneutered.
Neutering reduces sexually driven behaviors including urine marking, mounting of other dogs or people, escaping, and aggression with other dogs. The source of their raging hormones has been eliminated.
They no longer have the desire to breed or the need to defend their girl (even if she’s an unknown in the next neighborhood) from other dogs.
What remains is your pup’s special personality, the attraction and love that first bonded you together. Now he’s free to blossom and shine as a special member of your family.
As the old saying goes, the proof is in the pudding. Read on to see what some of our Happy, Proud, Fur Boy Parents think about their Bichon Boys.