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Pet lover Cameron has recently brought home a new friend - a Bichon Frise puppy! This breed, he knows from friends who owns one, is a very loyal, smart, and sociable dog. . Cameron has allergic reactions, so the breed’s not shedding is actually a great plus. What any new puppy owner has to do is prepare his home to receive he new curious Bichon Frise puppy, and that entails making sure the household is safe for the dog that loves to explore. Here’s what Cameron did, which you can do, too.

Walk around your home, on all fours, room per room, looking for objects that might harm your Bichon Frise puppy. It’s one thing to walk around indoors imagining how familiar items could be a danger to your puppy, but it’s another to crawl on all fours, to see concretely what a small puppy can reach. Once you try crawling around, the items in your home “defamiliarize” and you can better decide if they will pose a danger to your puppy. Look for electric cords, figurines on low hanging shelves, toys with small parts, perfumes, cleaning fluids that could be poisonous, and plants that could also be poisonous to a puppy. Naturally, you want to keep away sharp object from your - scissors, cutters, garden tools, and the like.

You want a cozy crate for your puppy, and you want this in a room with windows. You want your puppy to identify early and keep coming back to safe haven of its own. Despite how preparation you make, your pup is bound to wreck and ruin something, so when you hear something crash and you’re worried where your pup is, you’ll find it, most likely in its crate.

Look up child gates, and if you have other pets at home, keep them away from your pup. Sometimes you need to get some errands or extra work done at home, and you can’t just keep your pup holed up in his room in his crate. A child gate with grills can come in handy, since you can see your pup play and still what you need to do at home.

Keep supplies and food stuff away from the pup. Low cabinets are sometimes where pet owners put their supplies of cleaning fluids, detergents, disinfectants, insecticide, in short, all the useful things a human being with common sense will not ingest. Sometimes dog food is packed in a separate but equally low hanging shelf. If there are cabinets whose contents you can’t move, you should place child locks on them, just to be sure.

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