The worst thing that we can do is to be picking our puppy up all the time and causing them to not perhaps have the best experiences when they are being handled by us.
So how do we do that? Well, the best thing to do is to allow them to make the choice to be handled. If we can, so if they come up to you and they want to be engaging with you, then, of course, you can be handling them and touching them.
Ideally, you wanna touch them on the side that's closest to us rather than putting our hands over them because that does remove the element of control for our puppy.
The worst thing that we can do is to be picking our puppy up all the time and causing them to not perhaps have the best experiences when they are being handled by us.
But in reality, sometimes we do need to take a little bit of control ourselves, particularly if we need our puppy to get used to new things, especially that visit to the vet. We want that to be a really positive experience and when your puppy is as young as little Teddy is.