Poodle Care

The Basics Of Poodle Care

Poodle care can be easy if you know the basics.  But depending on the level of grooming your poodle's cut requires for maintained, it can greatly increase time spent caring for your poodle.

The three basics of poodle care are diet, grooming and training.  In this article I will discuss the specifics of each area to maintain your poodle's health.

Diet and Poodle Care

If you want your poodle to live a long and healthy life, then you must give them a great diet. 

A great diet is one where the primary ingredient is meat.  If you look on a bag of dog food and look at what the first ingredient is, it had better be some type of meat.  If it is some type of grain, then buy a different kind of dog food.  Quality dog foods have meat as the primary ingredient.

It is important you feed a dry hard food to your poodle.  If you feed a wet food, carter can build up in the mouth quicker resulting in dental disease. 

When feeding the diet, only offer it twice a day, don't let the food bowl be available all day, otherwise your poodle could become obese.  Obesity is one of the leading diseases of dogs right now because people over feed their dogs way too much.

Did you know that for a fact, dog owners spend more money on dog treats than on nutritious dog food. 

Grooming and Poodle Care

If you are not going to show your poodle, grooming your poodle will be much easier because you can just shave the coat with a clippers.

But if you are going to show your dog you will spend a lot more time and money maintaining their coat.  In fact for show poodles it takes several hours a week to maintain some cuts.

At a minimum you should brush out your poodle a couple of times a week. 

Another aspect of grooming people over look is trimming dog nails.  You should keep your poodle's nails short enough so that when they walk they are not putting any pressure on them.

Training and Poodle Care

Training your poodle should begin as soon as you bring them home.  Potty training your poodle is the first form of training they receive.

Poodles are very intelligent and actually learn potty training very quickly, much quicker than most dogs so this should not be a problem.

Once they have mastered potty training you can then teach them basic commands like sit, stay, and fetch.

Having a well trained dog is very basic poodle care.  In fact training your dog do properly behave is almost as vital as giving them fresh clean water everyday.