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The first time with your Pomeranian or Russian Toy:

It is a big radical change to dog and owner to begin a new life together. Both must learn each other to know, and the dog must learn the houserules and the standards and rules of surrounding world., in order to function well the next many years. Use the name of the Puppy every time you want to learn something new, as it will get attention of The Puppy.
Sometimes can your training be frustrated, but with patience and staying power, it will be rewarded to dog and owner.
Training and education must always be with love and consistency. Reward your dog with lots of praises. You can also use goodies as rewards, but give more than the daily ration of food.

If you have bought an adult dog, perhaps you only need to get it a little training, but have you bought a Puppy, you need to train it every day.
A Pomeranian or Russian Toy are indoor most of the time, and therefore it needs to be train and educated indoors first. It is neccesary you begin the training at once you get home with your dog, particularly if it is a Puppy.

To train housetraining.

Indoors it is best with newspaper or old towels near the door to the outside area. It have to be a place where your Puppy quick and easy can run to, when it is neccesary to it.
Let something of the used newspaper/towel stay, when change. Still the smell is there. It will be easier to remember where it must go to.
Accept small misfortunes, while the housetraining is going on. Evenso Pomeranian and Russian Toy are easy to train, is the Puppy still a baby. Just like all babies has Puppies misfortunes too. Don´t punish it!!!
Prais it when it do the right thing. You can bar a part of your home, so carpet or furniture be spared until the Puppy is housetrained.

Training to be outdoor housetrained.

It is important to bring the Puppy to the same place outside in the beginning. Use a sspecific word to your dog , and use only this word every time.

Your Puppy must outside every time it has:
1) As it wakes up.
2) Before and after playing.
3) After it has eaten.
4) Before bedtime in the evening.

Housetraining is not the only training your dog needs.
From the beginning, either it is a Puppy or an adult dog, you must show who decides.
Dogs are crowd-animal and it is their nature to want to be the leader of the crowd. Så you have to prove your leadership from the beginning. As the primary leader, must it be only you, who feed, train og educate the Puppy. Dogs need one leader, although they can have many people, who is important in their life. Actually it is very important that it has lots of people in its life.
No matter how much we love our dogs, they still are dogs, and have to know their place.

To be alone at home.

After a few days, when the puppy has settled down in the new inviroments, has time come to begin " alone at home training". The dog is, as I told ,crowd-animals. and it is still unnatural to it to be left alone.
Start the training when the puppy is tired and have been outside to clean itself. It is important you place your puppy at a place, where it is safety and used to be. Distract the dog with a bone, without saying good-by for a few minutes. Let the radio be on and some light be switch on, as if you were in the home.
Ideally you must returne before the dog become restless. If the puppy whines, you must wait to return until it has been calm for a couple of minutes. Ignore the puppy when reunion it.
Repeat " olone at home training" several times daily for a few minutes . Increase after this gradually the period, but don´t go to quick forward.

Grooming your Pomeranin and Russian Toy.

The training includes grooming too. Your puppy has to be brushed once a week, and it is important to it to learn it from the beginning. This training should be started at the breeder.
Look the Ears and teeth after at the same time as the brushing. A Pomeranian/Russian Toy easily get tartar. So clean the teeth and give bone to chrew. A dog should have the nails cutted once a month.

Only Pomeranian!!!!
The hair between the pads has to cutted short, as it prevent your Pomeranian to bring durt indoors.

Learning knowledge to Collar and leash.

Another important thing the puppy has to wear collar and leash when you walk it. Begin with the collar. Let it be used to it before you put the leash on.

Socialising.

Your puppy has to learn strange people, other dogs and animals and new inviroments is a part of its world too.This get used to is called marking and socialising. This should already have been started at the breeder, and must be continued when you get home with the puppy.

Make sure the puppy get so many good experiences as possible before the pyppy is 1 year old. The first 6 months are the most important. It is in this periode the puppy is particularly susceptible to new impressions.

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The development of the Dog.

In order to understand a dogs behaviour, it is necessary to have knowledge about its development from birth to death. This knowledge is important in order to be able to train the Puppy ,so it can grow up and become a well-function adult Dog, who you can have pleasure of for the next 12 - 16 years.

Shortly I will describe this development:

Birth - 2 weeks:	Birth-change: The most important to the Puppy is to suck, sleep and keeping warm. It must have close contact to the Mother and the Siblings. The Mother licks the Puppies in the behind, in order to stimulate urine and faeces from the Puppies. The Puppies get open eyes about 14 days old, but is not able to see much.
2 - 3 weeks:	Sense development : You can see Teeth coming at the Puppies, and sight, hearing and the ability of balance is developing. The Puppies begin to get urineting and faeces my itself. I keep The Puppies in my hand several times a day in order to get them used to people. The Puppies get their nails cut for the time, as they else can tore the Mother when they are sucking her.
3- 5 weeks:	1st part of the socialisingphase: About 3 weeks old the Puppies begin to be curiously and want to look for contact with the surrounding world. React to loud sounds. The sight , the hearing and the sense of smell are developing and the Puppies are now able to bark, wave with the tail and play with the other puppies. They begin to eat firm food, and leave the sleeping place in order to empty its bowels or to urineting. I take each Puppy out ind order to play with it several times a day and let them listen to the CD from the Danish Kennel Club with different sounds on a very low level. Kindly strange people are allowed to hold the Puppies. It will give the Puppy certainty to meet strange People later on.
5 -7 weeks:	2nd part of the socialisingphase: Th Puppy takes part in group-activities and begins to find his place in the the pack. The Puppy practises in domination - and submitplays, which teach the Puppy to solve conflicts. At this time I begin to learn the Puppy to walk with a leash and it will get used to a Car, a transport case and all the common sounds in a home, together with sounds from the CD, which is played gradually louder. The Mother brings up the Puppies. Sight and hearing work and the Puppy´s movements are more coordinated now. The Puppy needs more firm food at this time.
7 - 12 weeks:	3rd part of the socialisingphase : In this period the Puppy is open, curious and enterprising. It is susceptible to adaptation, and this period is suitable for the Puppy to leave the Kennel ind order to work up its belonging to the new Family. In this period I have got the Puppies used to drive in a Car, walk at my left side and the Puppy has met children, grown-ups and other Dogs in a kindly way in the Kennel and in City-area. The Puppy is now eating without supplement from the Mother, and house training has started. It begins to learn to come when its name is called.
3- 4 Months:	Half sex-maturing: The Testosteronproduction are increased at both Males and Females. It cause more desire to dominate. The Puppy get easily scared. It try to find his place in the order of rang. The Puppy is very engaged to please its leader (owner). It likes to be near of the leader, but also likes to explore the surrounding World. The first teeth are changed. I begin to train for Dogshow ,when the Puppy are in this age and it has got chew-things as for example oxbone, pigears in order to relieve the sore teeth.
4 - 7 Months:	1st calm period: It is a calm time for the Puppy, who has an aptitude to concentrate himself and in this way is much more impressionable for training. I trained to Dogshow and exhibit in Puppy-Class. The Puppy has now both milk Teeth and the permanent Teeth and needs a veterinary removes the milk Teeth. Most of the Pomeranians are now shed its baby coat.
7 - 10 Months:	Physically sex-maturing: The Bitch has her first heat. The young Dog is unconcentrated and forgetful. The Male begins to cock its leg and defends his territory. Both the Male and the Female can be unkindly and breaking things in the Home. I don´t train very much at this time, but try to maintain what the Dog has learned.
10 - 17 Months:	2nd calm period: The young Dog acts rational. Bitchs can have their second heat. I continue now the training and the Dog should now be able to behave at a show with self-confidently behavour
17 - 22 Months:	The mental maturing: The muscles has finshed the development. Now developed the mental maturing and the dominating become more distinctly. I will like my Bitchs to have their first litter in this period.
22 Months - 5 -8 Years:	The grown-up Dog: Now must the reward be present, if the training and the development of the Dog has been normal. The cooperation between the Person and the Dog works optimally.Perhaps in this period my Bitchs get 3-4 more litters.
5-8 Years - ?	Old age: The physical functions of the Dog reduced. Musclestiffness and rheumatism can arise. Teeth begin to loosen and drop out.. I walk shorter distance with the old Dog, but daily exercise is important also in this last time of the Dog´s life. As the dog don´t have so much exercise as before , must the Food be adapted, so the old Dog not get overweight.

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Terms for buying a puppy from Kennel Pomtoy´s

	Both parent are examined for Patella Luksation and are declared free. All puppies are sold with DHL ( The Danish Association of Dogowners) pedigree, where you can see 3 generations back . You will also get a copy of the Puppy´s lines 5 generations back from Kennel Pomtoy´s. I only sell with a Purchase commitment . The informed price will not be discussed, and must be paid in cash , when the puppy is collected. Perhaps a deposit must be paid. I am not selling to families with children under 8 - 10 Years old. It is far to all, who want to buy, who are allowed to it, because I am very concern about the puppy´s future well-being. You are not allowed to see the puppy before it is about 4 weeks old. This in order to avoid stress at the mother. If the puppy is not ready to leave the kennel 8 weeks old, you must wait until it is ready. I reserve the right to unanounced visit in the Home the first year with the right to bringing the Puppy free to my kennel, if the agreements , which have been enter to the contract of sale is not all right. Kennel Pomtoy´s prefer a smoke free home.

Do you think this are reasonable terms? Then continue reading!

In return Kennel Pomtoy´s will offer you

A puppy with a healthcertificate, which is less than a week old, when the puppy is collected.

A puppy, who has got three times of worm-treatment before it is 8 weeks old.

The puppy is well - sozialised, which means it is ready to meet its new home:

    1) The puppy has been together with humam beings from the birth.

    2) The puppy has met strange children , adult persons, dogs and other pets, and it has been out walking in a City.

    3) The puppy has started to walk in a leash and has begin to train coming when its name is called.

4) The puppy is used to a tranportcase.

    5) The puppy is used to be brushed and having its teeth and ears examined

You will get a written and spoken instruction in taking care of the puppy.

The puppy gets its basket, toys, leash and food to 3 days with. I make the food myself. That the reason why it only can be for 3 days.

From the birth to the puppy is collected I take photoes, which will be placed at this home page, so you, as coming owner ,can be able to follow the puppy. You will get alle the photoes on CD.
You are very welcome to visit the puppy, when it is about 4 weeks old.

All puppies are chip-marked and registered in The Danish Dogindex at the time for collecting.

You will get a year free membership of DHL, and I hope you will continue the membership later on.

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Ways to prepare yourself for a Puppy

	Pour hot applejuice different places on the Floor, and walk around without shoes in the dark!
	Immediately after you wake, you have to go out in the Rain and darkness and say: "good dog go and pee -good dog come on little dog"
	Run out in the rain or the snow on your bare feet, in order to close the gate.
	Run during the most exciting in your favouriteprogram on TV and shout: "NO, NO OUTSIDE" - and miss the rest of the program.
	Finally take a warm soft blanket out of the tumble-drier ,and wrap your in it. It is that feeling you will get, when your exhausted Puppy finally drop down in your lap.