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To choose the pup
Before choosing our pup we have some fundamental questions: do we know the race, the characteristics and the demands of that dog? What do we know about his character, are we prepared to sacrifice good part of our leisure time to devote us to him or is it a whim of our child that pushes us to buy an only "toy" that then it will abandon when he will be grown? The labrador is a sweet and patient dog, that loves to favor its master, him being nearby and to have from him so many little darlings, loves to be brought around, especially in ample and sure places, where he can discharge its natural vitality. Ours will be an appointment that the time won't last of only to see to grow our small friend, but it will be such for the whole life of our labrador. Not to underestimate then a very important matter and that is if the people of our family share the choice to buy a pup and if they are prepared to help us in his growth. Made this examination of conscience and sure of our footstep, we will be ready to welcome in our house the our small labrador. First point: where to purchase him? Surely we will make us recommend from some friend that already possesses him, but then we will be us to inform us near more breeders, trying to make to understand them that dog prefers, both it a dog to be brought in exposure, or to hunting or simply a faithful companion of life. If the breeding that we will choose is not very distant from us, we can already go to see the cucciolata when it is of few weeks, surely we won't choose our pup, but we can see his parents, or at least his mother, making counts us of person of the hygienic conditions of the place and to see other subjects of the same origin. And' well that the pups are raised in a family environment, so that to receive the necessary imprinting between animal and person, to establish with the breeder a relationship of mutual trust, also because following the delivery of the pup, the breeder will furnish us the necessary consultation for any problem of feeding, education, training, reproduction and so street. We will have to try to go to breeding more times, trying to understand and to make to understand to the breeder the pup that more it suits him for us; if we have some children in the house, we will look for the calmest and less pup irruento, if instead we are impassioned hunters, we will look for that more vivacious and resourceful, if instead one day we will also want us to feel the emotion to go to exposure, we will look for the pup that more it suits him for this situation. All the small that we will see will seem us so adorable that will be in serious difficulty in to choose, it will be therefore the breeder that according to narrow contact with them and knowing well them, it will tell us what their merits and defects are. A pup has to be healthy above all, not to have hereditary tare transmitted to the birth, therefore we pretend to view his/her parents' pedigrees, the genealogy and the certificates to which they have been submitted. A healthy pup has to be vivacious, to have a beautiful thick mantle, the alive and clear look, without excessive mucus around the eyes, without holding particularly consideration the dimensions; in a homogeneous cucciolata there can be variations of one or two kilograms without this can influence the future development. The biggest pup is also that more beautiful, this is always not true, in fact a growth too much rapids is able, in some cases, to bring out standard to subjects, exaggerated. The small labrador has to be compact, with strong skeleton and well developed feet, the deep breast, with square head and ears with non excessive dimensions. The eyes don't have the definitive color yet, but in a two month-old pup should be already sufficiently dark. As it regards the character it is important that the pup is not timid and, if we lengthen a hand to caress him has to come from us wagging the tail and not to rebel if we pick him up in arm. At times it is the pup that chooses not the contrary and we, often they leaves the pups to earth to see that that more it draws near to us, already looking for from small to gain our affection and to induce us to pick him up; at times it is the best choice.