Check the appetite when choosing a Labrador

The appetite must be normal. Eating, drinking, playing, excretion, and sleeping are the four major needs for the normal development of puppies. Puppies that have just arrived in a new environment or are motion sick may temporarily have a reduced appetite. In addition, puppies with severe dehydration, latent diseases, gastroenteritis, and physical pain will lose their appetite. In this case, prospective dog owners should maintain a wait-and-see attitude. Ask the owner about feeding times, and then arrange a visit to observe changes.

Choose a Labrador to check its breathing

Puppies catching colds, allergic noses or upper respiratory tract infections can cause runny noses. After being infected by bacteria, the secretion will turn into milky white, yellow or green pus. In addition, there is food spraying out of the nostrils, which means that the puppy is eating too quickly or has a problem with its swallowing mechanism or has a congenital structural defect. Puppies without a cough will cough when they have a cold, cloudy air, sensitive throat, tracheitis and bronchitis. Severe coughing and phlegm can cause loss of appetite and malnutrition in puppies.

Choose a Labrador to check its eyes

The eyes are clear and bright, and the cornea of ​​the eye is transparent, allowing people to clearly see the color of the pigment layer of the eye. The hepatitis virus can turn the cornea blue; foreign matter entering the eye or trauma to the eye can cause the eye to swell and close tightly or the white part of the eye to turn red and the cornea to turn white. Dogs infected with canine distemper virus and other ophthalmic pathogens will cause abnormal eye secretions and suppuration.

Look at the body shape when choosing a Labrador

Medium body fatness or thinness have always been traditional indicators used to measure the nutritional status of dogs. If a puppy is thin and lacks physical strength, its immunity will naturally be affected and it will easily suffer from diseases.