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The first year at the vet
It is not a race to buy products. It is a calendar: vaccines, checks, and a doctor who sees the dog while it is small, so later it already has a history.
The puppy leaves us with the care and papers required. After that, the thread is held by your own vet. We do not hand you a protocol to copy: every country, every clinic, every puppy has its own timing. We give you the sense of it. The first year is for building a relationship with a doctor, not for collecting receipts.
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In the first days
A check-up, even if “it is perfectly fine”. It lets someone who is not you handle the dog, and it lets the papers be read.
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The vaccine calendar
The vet decides it, according to age, area and what has already been given. You do not bring it forward on a Facebook group.
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Parasites and weight
You repeat, you weigh, you look at the back. A puppy that grows too fast is not “a champion”: it is a puppy to recalibrate.
The right vet is the one you can write to without embarrassment. Keep that person.
Written by LA BANDA BASSOTTO, dachshund breeder in Lodi (Lombardy, Italy), ENCI/FCI kennel affix Villa Quattro Zampe.
These pages are born from daily life with our dogs. For their health, your veterinarian remains the dearest and truest voice.
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