BED.
Try to avoid beds with foam bottoms or sides as your Frenchie or Puggie can and many will tare out the foam and it could get lodged in their throats. Find a well made, durable, washable bed that will last for many years ahead.
VASELINE-use on nose regularly to keep it soft.
DOG SHAMPOO\CONDITIONER-Any tearless puppy shampoo is good to start with. And the "dry", no rinse shampoos for quick cleanups are also good. Most puppies will not require a bath that often unless they roll in something objectionable or roll and play in dirt. Good idea to keep baby wipes on hand for quick clean up.
FEEDING & TREATS
First, I recomend feed every dog from a dog lifted feeder, not from the floor, to prevent spine and legs damage.
So, we use ajastable dog feeder, looking like this.
We have a responsibility to choose a food that provides optimum nutrition, with a minimum of garbage igredients, so we feed all our dogs with Royal Canin Medium Bulldog 24 top quality dog food and/or Blue Buffalo Chicken & Brown Rice
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Also we feed our French Bulldogs and Pugs a raw diet, consisting of chicken parts, ground turkey necks, eggs, ground vegetables, yogurt and other natural, healthy ingredients. French Bulldogs don't necessarily need puppy food and will usually fare well blending dried kibble with moistened meat, or some broth, or plain yogurt from time to time, as long as you take care with the proportions at each meal... You don't want to overfeed your dog, but the wet food blended with kibble tends to ease digestion.
Treats
We give "Roarhide" nylabones to puppies and adults.
The white regular nylabones have never gotten much use
although the flexible flavored nylabones do seem to appeal to
both pups and older dogs. Other treats we use are the chew
sticks available at Walmart or Target & Dr. Dentley's rawhide
chips, available at Petsmart. Also piece of carrot can work just great!
We use cuted on small pieces hotdogs, pieces of cheddar
or american sliced cheese for training treats.
These are work very well. We start using these during
housetraining to let the dogs know they are going in the
right place and keep using them all through their training.
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