A puppy is a juvenile dog, some can weigh 1–3 lb, while larger ones can weigh up to 15–23 lb. All healthy puppies grow a vast majority bigger after birth.
Here are 10 facts about puppies that you may not have known -
1. A puppy is born - There are approximately 6.2 million puppies born in the U.S. and UK every year. In comparison to only 4 million babies born per year, you can give each newborn baby at least one puppy as a birthday gift!
2. Sensory - Just like us human beings, when puppies are first born, they are without teeth. However, they can't hear, see or smell either. Puppies do not open their eyes or begin to hear until they're 9 to 12 days old. Plus they can't smell until three weeks post birth. Until then, it's a must for the mini-puppies to stay close to their mother and their siblings to eat and grow into a healthy dog.
3. Sleeping - Not much differs between babies and puppies when it comes to sleeping habits. The average newborn sleeps 16 hours in a 24 hour time period, whereas puppies get around 14 hours of sleep only.
4. Lifestyle - When a puppy is born, 90% of their life is spent sleeping while the other 10 percent is spent eating.Since a lot of important development and growth happens for the pup during this time, it is important that they get their rest.
5. Sniffing - At 3 weeks old, puppies not only develop a keen sense of smell, but they're also pretty amazing sniffers. The percentage devoted to sniffing smells in a puppy's brain is actually 40 percent larger than humans. Plus they can smell things over a 1,000 times better than the average human.
6. Feeding - When a puppy is small, he needs to eat five small portions of food a day. Since he wasn't born to nurse, you will need to teach him the proper portion control to avoid gorging his little tummy. As he gets older, he can survive on one to two larger feedings per day.
7. Walking - Puppies grow pretty fast and it takes them a bit of time to get used to their body. Just like when a human is trying to walk, puppies can be a bit clumsy. A bit more common in larger breeds due to their long legs and big paws, puppies are quite the clumsy creatures when they trot alongside you.
8. Social skills - Puppies are in the womb and born with a litter. When they are left alone, they get lonely. Some chase their tails and some look for trouble. When your little puppy is young, make sure to spend a lot of time with the little guy and put him in sociable situations to ease his transition into being a pet.
9. Chewing - Just like babies, puppies teeth grow when they are chewing. Needing to exercise their new chompers, a lot of puppies will chew anything in site. Don't discipline for chewing, just train them on what's okay to chew and what's not.
10. All grown up - Even though he may not act like it, a 1-year-old puppy is considered an adult! This is the equivalent to a human at 15 years of age.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puppy
http://puppies.co.uk/
http://www.27bslash6.com/puppies.html
http://www.wikihow.com/Category:Raising-Puppies
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