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Caring for your Shitzhu puppies...

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I used to have these puppies (half shitzhu and half maltese). But they are actually living their separate lives now and maybe they are happy with their new found home. Here are some tips on how to handle newborn puppies... 1. Love and affection. Puppies need love and affection when they are growing up. Just like babies, you need to be there with them. Shitzhu become depressed when they are being left for long periods of time. So if you are in work or school be sure that someone would take care of them or better yet leave them with large stuff toys (without of course the plastic eyes and buttons because they might choke on it.) 2. Give them something to chew . If they are on the teething stage, give them something to chew. A lot of petshop and supermarket are now offering these. Shitzhu loves to chew specially those wooden furnitures, rubber slippers, shoes or anything that they can hold on. Puppies do start to get their teeth at 4 weeks of age. Canned puppy food or softened dry puppy ...