Puppy Checklist
Before you decide to buy a chocolate lab puppy or a black lab puppy, it is very important that you know a little about the breeder and the puppy's parents. The following is a checklist of what you should ask your breeder before you decide to buy a chocolate lab puppy or a black lab puppy.
Puppy Health Test
Probably one of the most important thing that you must consider before choosing a puppy is what we like to call the "puppy health test". When you're looking for a puppy, there are a few things that can help determine a puppy's good or poor health. Feel free to bring this checklist with you when you're choosing a puppy.
- The puppy's eyes. Look at the puppy's eyes. Are the bright, clear, and clean or are they weepy looking, caked with goo, and runny.
- The puppy's ears. Are they clean (both inside and outside) free of ticks and free of bald patches?
- The puppy's mouth. Are the puppy's gums and teeth clean, the proper color, and free of sores, plaque and food? Is the tongue clean? Is the puppy's breath have that sour milk puppy smell or does it smell rotten?
- The puppy's coat. Is it free from mats, dirt, and feces, especially around the rectum? Is the coat clean and very soft? Or is it patchy with bald spots? Is there evidence of ticks or fleas (small black spots or raised red bumps are evidence of fleas.) Does the puppy smell bad?
- The puppy's paws. Are they clean with clipped nails and nothing lodged between the pads? Does the puppy walk easily or does it limp?
- How does the puppy act? Is he energetic, curious, and interested in you? Or does he seem to be tired and not interested in you, even when you try to get its attention?
If the puppy you're interested in appears to be in good health, is clean, pest-free, looks like he's eating well, energetic, curious, and interested in getting your attention, then you have a great puppy.
You can learn more about what you should look for
when choosing a Labrador Retriever puppy by reading "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Labrador Retrievers" by Joel Walton and Eve Adamson (the above information is
from this book). You can find this book here: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Labrador Retrievers
.
Michele Welton, author of "Your Purebred Puppy", says that you should also look for Labrador Retrievers that have been tested: "...testing of parents and grandparents. Do both parents and all four grandparents have OFA numbers (hips and elbows) and annual CERF? Thyroid tests? Heart tests? Do they have any field or obedience titles? You can't tell much about a puppy's future health based on what you see at 7 weeks, but you can predict quite a bit from the test results and working titles of his parents and grandparents."
We highly recommend you get Michele Welton's book, Your Purebred Puppy, and you can find this book here: Your Purebred Puppy.
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