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Keep Your Bulldog Puppy Safe: Spot Problems Before Get Serious | Early Signs, Prevention Health Tips

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Keep Your Bulldog Puppy Safe: Spot Problems Before Get Serious | Early Signs, Prevention Health Tips

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I wanted to talk about puppy health and dealing with making sure that you keep your puppy healthy, knowing that your puppy is healthy, and making sure you keep your puppy safe and my mentality and my signs and stages of looking for all those.

Things. When you're dealing with with um a new puppy, uh it's so important to monitor them. Like I always say, you know, u um attention is everything. Paying attention to them because you're now with with a baby and a puppy, they're very sensitive. Any little thing that goes wrong is is is a very bad thing. A common cold is very dangerous for babies and puppies. Um, and so you need to monitor that and make sure you catch stuff as it's happening before it's happening. You know, one of the biggest things I always talk about, and I've said this before with knowing how the puppy's feeling is how they're acting. Are they acting normal? And maybe you haven't had the puppy long, so you don't really.

Know what normal is, but are they playing? Are they eating? That is the biggest thing. Are they eating and drinking? If they're not eating and drinking, there's probably a problem. Okay, dogs shut down eating and drinking when they're not don't feel good or something's a problem. So, are they eating and drinking? And are they playing? Are they being normal? Like this boy. Look at him. He's I mean, he's full. Look, look at his belly. He's full. He is eating and drinking like crazy. And he is playing. He's trying to bite me right now. And then, is their poop good? Is their poop hard, semi-h hard? Is it crazy soft, watery? You know, uh, if it's crazy stuff, whatever, they probably have a bacterial infection, uh,.

Giardia, coxidia, um, something like that, and they need to be treated or they have worms, which again is a big problem. It can eat away at them, and they need to be treated. So, that's a big thing. So, the two biggest thing is is eating, drinking, and um, food. I mean, and um, and their poop, and then their attitude. All three honestly are the same. I can't really tell you which one's bigger now that I think about it, but he's doing amazing. Now, the other thing to go over, and I said this, I've said this a bunch, is anything anything that can go wrong will go will go wrong. And I think it's better to be pessimistic than optimistic in situations like this because I'd.

Ra I want to think negatively like if I put him in this in this pen up on this, you know, edge and my german shepherd whip comes and jumps and hits the pen now knocks it over because he's in like, you know, a little puppy pen and he falls four feet 3 ft to the ground. That's going to be bad. So, I try to think pessimistic, not optimistically like, oh, wick's not going to do that, you know? I know I won't do that, but so, I try to think of worst case scenarios always with with the with the puppies and with with my baby, my everything. Uh, because I just want to make sure none of that bad stuff happens, you know, and I always.

Try to think optimistically, you know, people are going to be good, all those things. But there's certain times that pessim being pessimistic helps. So, I think negatively, not negatively, I just think the worst case scenario because I don't want those scenarios to ever happen. And I'm optimistic that I'm always going to make the right decision, keep this thing, this puppy safe. So, if there's a 1% or 0.1% chance of something bad happening, this this puppy, a situation that I can think in my head, fabricate in my head, I need to account for that. I need to change that, you know? So, I need to make sure that that he can't get out, you know? Like for example, let's say he's in a pen in my.

House and my my dog is um my other big dog is dog agg puppy aggressive. Let's say it's not the case, but let's say and he's loose. So now I don't want to just have one stage that maybe if that cage opens, the cage gets opened and he gets out now that dog's going to going to bite him and kill him. I want to have that pen have multiple stages. For example, that other dog be put in an area where it can't get that that pen. That pen have two stages to unlock. That pen have another spot where the dog can't get out. Even it does get out. So I have three, four, multiple stages, four, three or four levels, five levels until the bad.

Thing happens. So now the chances of that are 0001%. You know, there's no way to stop every anomaly. But if I can put multiple stages on safety, I'm going to and it's going to make my puppy a lot safer. And I and I know you're like thinking, well, it's that's probably not gonna happen. Well, I don't like I just don't I'm just not going to be okay with that's probably not going to happen. You know, I have to know in my head that I did everything to make sure not happen. You know, a meteor can come in and go through the my my my ceiling and hit him and that's a 0.1%. So, I'm I'm I'm willing to take that risk. I don't have.

The money to put, you know, 3 ft of steel on my roof and stuff like that. So, so we have to take that risk. I hope you like the information I'm sharing with you. Make sure you comment down below what you liked, what you didn't like, what you'd like to know, what you what you didn't get learned from us, all that stuff. I love get the feedback. You can always uh contact me via email to bestsgmail.com. And make sure you follow all our platforms as well, too. I appreciate you. And most of all, make sure you click that click the subscribe and bell down below.

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