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What do you recommend or not recommend regarding Puppy Shots?

At 6 weeks of age, we take our puppies to the our Veterinarian wellness check where they will receive their first shots. These two shots are for distemper and Bordetella. We recommend two more vaccines for parvo and distemper. These should be done by a licensed Vet.

Noncore vaccines are those recommended for some dogs based on lifestyle, geographic location, and risk of exposure.

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DO YOU USE FLEA, TICK TREATMENTS?

What no one will tell you is you can kill fleas 100% of the time if you bath your dog. This drowns the fleas. We have never had an outbreak of fleas ever. We have had a few ticks along the way, but we find them very quickly since someone in the house is petting or laying with one of the dogs. We catch them very early so they can be removed by us and we also make sure we removed the whole tick. I think there was once over the year, we took a dog to the vet to have it removed. We would rather pay a vet fee, then pour chemicals onto our dogs. My sister has a beautiful Yellow lab. She would treat it with liquid drops and then found he was having seizures monthly. After doing her homework, she came to find many of these treatments were having the same side effects her dog was having. When we would go camping, we would for 3 days put a flee and tick collar on them when we went dense into wooded areas. I also will use essentials oils such as tea tree on them every now and then.

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Should we go out and buy a small crate and then when the puppy grows out of it, we can go buy a permanent, bigger crate?

We highly recommend crate training. Our dogs still love their crates. We leave the door open now so they can come and go as they want, as well as our Boston Terrier and Bichapoo. When we leave the house, we still feel leaving them in a crate is the safest place we can keep them, especially under the age of one.

If you do happen to have a small crate from prior use, use it if you want. I would. This way you have time to look for a crate. I would also recommend you purchase a used on if you want to save some money. We have purchased many on Facebook Market place. I also recommend if you do decided to use a large crate, you must use some kind of portion in the crate. The size of the area you need to give the puppy in the large crate should only be room enough for the puppy to stand up and turn around. By nature, dogs will not go potty in the same area they sleep in. As the puppy grows and is fully housebroken, we remove any dividers I will be sending home with everyone some cut up blankets or wash clothes that we have used daily on them or have all been placed in with their litter mates. It will not be pretty, but it will have spent time with your puppy while it was in our care. Often times, I hear stories where these little tattered pieces of fabric become the puppies favorite possession. If I have the time, I will try to sew hems on them so you can continue to wash them. Or I will cut with my shearing scissors.