First Days At Home

SIEVERS KENNELS "Gary & Regina"
HC 82 BOX 61
MEPPEN, IL 62013
618-883-2137

• Diet: EUKANUBA SMALL BREED PUPPY FOOD (10 days). We have enclosed enough puppy food for the first couple of days. You will need to purchase a 16 lb. bag of the EUKANUBA SMALL BREED. Then slowly switch over to EUKANUBA LARGE BREED PUPPY.
• How Much: 1 1/2 - 2 cups at each meal and leave for 20-25 minutes, then put food up. Your puppy should be fed 2 times daily. (Breakfast and Dinner Time)
• Water: Fresh water at all times. However NOT in the crate!
• Lead: No longer than 6 feet.
• Collar: 10 to 16 inch adjustable nylon.
• Chew Toys: Puppy Nylo Bones, Rope Bones, and Kongs. Hedgehogs make wonderful crate buddies. Absolutely NO RAW-HIDE even through adulthood, they may cause BLOCKAGES!!!
• We highly recommend you crate train your puppy. By doing so, house-breaking is made simple. The puppy will not potty where it has to sleep. Also when you're not home the puppy will be in a "safe place."
• DANGER!!! Remove collar before putting puppy into crate. Collar can become hung-up on something causing a risk of strangulation.
• Put lead on puppy and walk 2 times daily around the edge of your yard. Using both the front/back doors. This will let your puppy know where his or her boundaries are.
• It is very important to spend as much time with your new puppy in the first 2 weeks as possible.
• We recommend you take time to enroll your new puppy in obedience school no earlier than 4 months of age.
• Good Training Books: Waterdog and Family Dog by (Richard Walters) and Retriever Training for the Duck Hunter by (Robert Milner).
• We would like to take this time to thank you for choosing us as your dog breeder. We have and will do everything in our power to help ensure you have a life long companion.

Gary and Regina Sievers and Family