CARE FOR YOUR NEW PUP Ideally feed your pup a food that is free of chemicals, preservatives and high amounts of grain or carbohydrates. For more information about a well balanced raw food diet please see our information sheet. Nutrition With pups always change their diet gradually as they can get tummy upsets from sudden diet changes ie. Mix ¼ of the new food with ¾ of their old food for a couple of days, then ½ and ½ for a couple of days, etc. Fleas and worms can be extremely harmful parasites. Not only do they cause a tremendous amount of irritation but they are also responsible for health problems such as ea allergies, sore tummies, diarrhea and they are capable of infesting young animals so severely that they can cause them to be anemic and very sick. Feeding your pup a healthy, wholesome and wellbalanced diet will help it to stay in good health. Dogs are naturally carnivores and depend on good quality protein and fat to keep them t and strong Worm & Flea treatment There are a number of ways to reduce worm and ea burdens numbers. Firstly supporting your pet’s immune system with good nutrition will go a long way to making them less tasty to eas and more able to defend against worm burdens. Regular treatment with worm and ea products are important to help keep your pet healthy. Some products are of much better quality than others and there are some products that can have toxic side effects so be sure to check with your vet what the most user friendly option for your pet is. With eas, environmental control is very important as typically the number of eas on any dog or cat is only the tip of the ice berg reecting a much greater ea population in the animal’s environment of both adult and immature eas. Therefore addressing the environment is a very important component of ea control. Immature eas can be destroyed by regularly hanging pet bedding out in the sunshine, thoroughly vacuuming carpets on a regular basis and sprinkling them with borax or diatomaceous earth afterwards. Pups should be dewormed every 2 weeks until they are 12 weeks old and then once a month until they are 6 months old. A Faecal Egg Count (FEC) is a test that we can do to see if worms are present, what types they are and whether treatments are needed or are working.