Thanks for this advice OM. Here is a pic of my new Catahoula at 7 weeks. I'll get more later. We just picked her up yesterday. My daughter's puppy just died after having it for 3 days so the family with the Catahoula pups gave her one for her own so now we have two new pups. I'll get pics of both of them later today. This is my pup Kacey.