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Puppy Trivia Quiz Questions

Printable puppy trivia quiz questions with answers about puppies.

Puppy Trivia Quiz Questions

What is a puppy?
A: A puppy is a juvenile dog.

How much does a puppy weigh?
A: A puppy can weigh from about 1 pound to as much as 23 pounds.

A puppy’s coat may change color as the puppy what?
A: Grows older.

Puppy refers specifically to dogs, while pup may often be used for what?
A: Other mammals such as seals, giraffes, guinea pigs, or even rats.

What is the average number of days for gestation?
A: 63.

Puppies come out in what?
A: An amnion.

Often, what does the mother dog do with the amnion?
A: She bites it off and eats it.

How long before puppies begin to nurse?
A: Almost immediately.

If the litter exceeds six puppies, what type of human intervention is needed?
A: Hand-feeding the stronger puppies is necessary.

Why is it necessary to hand feed the stronger puppies?
A: To ensure that the runts get proper nourishment and attention from the mother.

As they reach one month of age, puppies are gradually what?
A: Weaned and begin to eat solid food.

The mother may regurgitate partially digested food for what?
A: For the puppies.

The mother dog usually refuses to do what at this stage?
A: Nurse.

At first, puppies spend the large majority of their time doing what?
A: Sleeping.

What do they do the rest of the time?
A: Feed.

Puppies instinctively pile together into a what?
A: Heap.

Puppies become distressed if separated from what?
A: Physical contact with their littermates, by even a short distance.

Puppies are born with a fully functional sense of what?
A: Smell.

When puppies are newborn they can’t do what?
A: They can't open their eyes.

A puppy's senses all develop rapidly during what?
A: During their first two weeks.

During this stage what is the primary sense organ used by puppies to find their mother's teats?
A: The nose.

When do puppies open their eyes?
A: Puppies open their eyes about nine to eleven days following birth.

At first, their retinas are poorly developed and their vision is what?
A: Poor.