Your Litter A to Z, Module 13 - Your Litter's Fifth Week

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Module 13 Documents

• Fifth Week Checklist
• Module To-Do’s

What’s In This Module

• Week 5 Basics
• Gather The Supplies
• Deworm Your Puppies For Roundworms
• Create Stimulating Environments
• Stay Focused On Potty Training Your Litter
• Start Car Rides With Your Pups
• Continue Weaning Your Pups This Week
• Watch For Signs Of Low Calcium, Eclampsia And Mastitis
• Plan A Puppy Walk
• Accomplish These To-Dos This Week

Week 5 Basics

• Read Your Litter’s Fifth Week – Days 29-35
• Bitch Nutrition for Breeding / Lactation Week 5

Your pups are entering the Fear period.

Watch Sensitive Puppy Challenges: Fears video

• Audio
• Transcript

Review Canine Development video

• Audio
• Transcript

Review About Sensitive Period Puppies video

• Audio
• Transcript

Gather The Supplies You Will Need For This Week

• Shopping List: Your Litter’s Fifth Week

Deworm Your Puppies For Roundworms Around Day 35

• Read Preventing Puppy Diarrhea in Litters
• Read Deworming Dams and Puppies
• Watch deworming your pups video

• Audio

Create Stimulating Environments

• Indoor Pen
• Outdoor Pen

Stay Focused On Potty Training Your Litter This Week

Review Potty Training Litters for potty placement

• Audio
• Transcript

Review How to build a potty box plans, if you need to build a box:

• How To Build A Potty Box

Start Car Rides With Your Pups

Think Low, Cold And Covered!

• Read The Puppy Send-Off, pp 6-9

Continue Weaning Your Pups This Week

Using Meals To Develop Good Behavior In Pups

• Download Raw Feeding Calculator For Litters

Sensitive Period Nutrition and Weaning video

• Audio
• Transcript

Watch For Signs Of Low Calcium, Eclampsia And Mastitis

Although Most Bitches Are Nursing Less

• Read the Calcium Report
• Calculate how much calcium and of what type to give her during whelping
• Read the calcium section of Labor and Whelping
• Eclampsia Report
• Mastitis Report

Review Monitoring Dams and Pups, timestamp 11:59

• Audio
• Transcript

Plan A Puppy Walk For Days 42 To 56

(or Puppy Party, If You Can’t Go Outside)

Accomplish These To-Dos This Week

• Focus on potty training
• Keep pen small, especially at night, to aid in potty training
• Trim toenails every 3 days!
• Begin adding more equipment and toys to the pen
• Have lots of visitors
• Play louder sound recordings
• This is a good week to take pups to senior centers or child day care facilities because they don’t nip much
• Enjoy the pups! This is another great week!

Your Litter A to Z Table of Contents

Section 1: Pre-Breeding

• Intro to Your Litter A to Z
• Module 1: Preparing Your Dogs For the Breeding
• Module 2: She’s In Season

Section 2: Pregnancy & Whelping

• Module 3: The First Trimester (From ovulation to Day 21)
• Module 4: The Second Trimester (Day 22-42)
• Module 5: Placing Your Puppies
• Module 6: The Third Trimester (Day 43-whelping)
• Module 7: Labor & Whelping

Section 3: Litter Management: Month 1

• Module 8: The First 48 Hours (Birth to 48 hours)
• Module 9: Your Litter’s First Week (Birth to Day 7)
• Module 10: Your Litter’s Second Week (Day 8-14)
• Module 11: Your Litter’s Third Week (Day 15-21)
• Module 12: Your Litter’s Fourth Week (Day 22-28)

Section 4: Litter Management: Month 2

• Module 13: Your Litter’s Fifth Week (Day 29-35)
• Module 14: Your Litter’s Sixth Week (Day 36-42)
• Module 15: Your Litter’s Seventh Week (Day 43-49)
• Module 16: Sending Puppies Home
• Module 17: Your Litter’s Eighth Week (Day 50-56)
• Module 18: After the Eighth Week (Day 57 and beyond)

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