All About Puppies

Shelter: a place where stray, lost, abandoned or surrendered animals, mostly&nbsp;dogs&nbsp;and cats, and sometimes sick or wounded wildlife are kept and taken care of. Adaptation: a special quality possessed by an animal that helps them survive. Predator: an animal that hunts and eats other animals. Impulse: a strong desire to do something. Nose Print: an impression of the bare surface of an animal's nose used to identify a particular individual by&nbsp;means&nbsp;of the unique pattern of pores and lines — compare fingerprint.

Page 1....................What do puppies look like? Page 2....................Where do puppies live? Page 3....................What do puppies eat? Page 4....................How do puppies move? Page 5....................What are a puppies' adaptations? Page 6....................Is the puppy prey or a predator? Page 7....................Interesting fact about puppies. Page 8....................Glossary

These puppies need to be adopted from the shelter.

Most puppies are lucky enough to live in a house with a loving family. Some puppies who live with families stay inside most of the time, but some puppies are more of an outdoor pet. There are some puppies who live in the wild or animal shelters where they need to be adopted.

You can even see the difference between these two puppy's noses. Imagine if we took a print of them!

Did you know that a puppies nose print is individual to each different puppy? Just like a person's fingerprint, each puppy, or dog, has a different nose print. When identifying a dog, they don't take their paw prints, they take their nose prints!

These puppies all look different, except for their brothers and sisters.

A diagram labeling the parts of a puppy/dog.

There are a lot of different kinds of puppies. Puppies can be brown, black, grey white, tan, red, and even a mixture. Some puppies can even be spotted! Puppies can have straight fur, curly fur, long fur, and short fur. Most puppies have brown eyes but some special ones have blue!

A puppy's strongest adaptation is their sense of smell. Although most don't live in the wild, if they did, they would be able to smell their food very easily. A dog's sense of smell is about 1 million more times as sensitive as humans!

This puppy has short legs, but still manages to enjoy running and jumping!

When they are little, puppies learn to walk using their four legs. They love to play and run and jump but sometimes they aren't that good at it yet. Sometimes they fall when they jump and it takes them a while to learn how to go up the stairs. When they grow up, they will be better at it. Some types are better at running than others.

When they are first born, puppies drink milk from their mom's belly. Then, puppies eat puppy food and the occasional treat. When they grow up, they will eat dog food. Puppy and dog food can be dry or wet. Some families feed their puppies people food, but that's not good for their stomachs. Puppies also drink a lot of water!

This little puppy is learning from older dogs.

Since they eat meat, wild dogs are considered predators. However, most dogs and puppies live in homes as pets, so they aren't hunting other animals. Although puppies are born with natural hunting instincts, they are usually trained not to act on these impulses.

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