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Puppies
The stages of puppy growth in breeding
The educational duty towards the puppies and the correct basic setting of their relationship with their future families constitute, for me, a fundamental element of my profession. My Great Danes are treated with love and respect from their very first day of life, they grow up at home and in the garden, always together with their mother and in close contact with humans. The starting point is the conscious pregnancy of a future mother who can experience all the well-being of her new condition, so that the puppies, who react to the mother's emotional situations during the second part of gestation, receive positive messages. The puppies I raise begin to breathe in my hands and are kept at home for the entire first month of life, so that they are exposed to the positive stimuli of the human home, which will be the living environment of these future giants. In the neonatal phase, they are handled and stimulated regularly every day to accelerate the development of their nervous system and promote the stabilization of their emotionality. In this way, the puppies receive a strong imprinting on the human being and have their first sensory experiences useful for the maturation of their nervous system and the formation of most of the primary reflexes they will have as adults. During the sensitive growth period (which goes from the opening of the eyes up to 90 days), when the process of imprinting takes place through which the puppies learn which species they belong to, identify their kind (the mother, siblings, other male and female Great Danes, adolescents and young ones) and identify available social partners (humans, children, other pets, unfamiliar dogs), I guarantee the puppies continuous contact with me and with the mother, visits from strangers, children, animals, other dogs of different sexes and ages, to offer them the opportunity to stabilize their mood through education to the correct level of emotional reaction to various external stimuli. Weaning takes place without separating the puppies from their mothers, so that it is the mothers who let the puppies experience the stages of separation, laying the foundations to teach them in the future to endure moments of solitude to which they will inevitably be subjected in their coexistence with a different species such as humans. To do this, I guarantee the mothers the possibility to leave and return to the puppies whenever they want and I make sure that they are the ones to lead the litter in their first "star" explorations in unknown environments. Socialization with humans and the environment therefore continues with the new families, to whom I deliver the puppies after 70 days of life, that is, after the development of the part of the brain responsible for the control of emotions has been completed in the company of the mother.
The placement of puppies with their human families
I breed at most three litters a year and my puppies are usually reserved well in advance, allowing me to develop a relationship with the future owners so that I can get to know and analyze in advance their expectations, the lifestyle they intend to share with the Great Dane, and the family and environmental context in which the puppy will be placed. At around 35/40 days of age, that is, before the interspecific socialization period begins and thus before broader contact with humans, I subject the puppies to the Campbell test, which makes it possible to identify the basic genetic character tendencies of each of them. This gives me important information, supporting the character orientation of the puppy that I have been able to observe during the days and nights spent close to them, about the innate characteristics each puppy has regarding social interaction and hierarchy, which can later be enhanced or mitigated during their growth. This analysis, together with the overall morphological and behavioral evaluation of each puppy, allows me to guide the choices of future families, which will be made after 50 days of age, and to identify the best possible client/puppy match. However, my job does not end here, because I choose to continue to follow the subsequent journey that families will take with their new four-legged friend. I work to ensure a correct basic setup of the relationship with the puppy, providing guidance on normative education, toilet training, nutrition, and the prophylaxis to follow during growth. I intervene directly, when necessary, as a professional in the education and training of the dog, to teach clients, through the cognitive approach to learning, how to put into practice the normative education of their dog, perceiving the value of concertation, understood as the union of our interspecies differences towards a common goal, something that for the dog, a pack predator, is natural, while for us, so individualistic, is an achievement. I also follow, for those who wish to embark on this exciting journey, the setup of the show career of my dogs. When something does not go the right way, I propose a therapeutic path to rebalance the relationship, helping owners regain awareness, communication skills, and consciousness of our educational duty towards the dog.
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