A Dog's Love

Raising a pup from young and watching them grow and thrive throughout their puppyhood and into their adulthood can be one of the most satisfying things to experience as a parent!

For the first few weeks of a pup’s life, they have to be kept indoors and near their pup mom. This is for safety’s sake – for starters, a newborn pup is very bad at regulating their body temperature.

Giving and receiving attention is a very important commodity for pups. It is something actually inherited from their wolf ancestors, where this sort of social interaction is related to the animal’s position in the pack’s social hierarchy.

When most people aim to welcome new life into the world, they don’t then seek to kick another life out to make room for it. Unfortunately, that is what the previous family of Rocco, a 3-year-old German shepherd, did to him.

Although there is now an increasing trend of having a pup as your substitute child, in light of how much more difficult it is to raise a child these days, many families still have both pups and children!