Single Puppy Syndrome
Singleton puppies miss out on opportunities to learn basic canine communication and behavioral coping skills from their littermates, sometimes setting them up for frustration and sensitivity to handling later in life.
Pup Won’t Go? Steps to Take for Puppy Leash Training
You just brought your new puppy home and you can’t wait to head out on that first walk. You’ve been picturing this happy moment...
Starting Young: Resource Guarding in Puppies
It might come as a shock when your sweet fluff of a baby dog suddenly and fiercely stakes a claim to the treats that...
How Much Playtime Does a Puppy Need?
In addition to planning for and providing your new pup with all the training and management she needs to learn basic good manners and...
When do dogs stop growing?
Although predicting your puppy’s size isn’t an exact science, a puppy-weight calculator could help guess your purebred or mixed breed’s adult weight.
New Puppy Tips and Questions Answered
For the past few weeks, as I have been working on this issue, I have also been promoting my latest batch of foster puppies...
How Long To Feed Puppy Food?
If there is one thing that everyone knows, it’s that you have to start out puppies on puppy food. And then at some point...
How To Supervise Good Puppy Play
If there’s one thing that can serve as the magic elixir of puppyhood, it’s the puppy playdate. Half an hour spent wrestling and chasing...
How to Help Your Crying Puppy
Gone are the days when standard advice was to ignore a crying puppy. “Ignore him,” we said, “until he stops crying. If you go...
To Buy or Adopt a Dog? What You Should Know
I got my first dog, a stray that I begged my mother to allow me to keep, when I was 9 years old. It was...
Puppy Needs New Food!
Michael Pollan, author of the best-selling books on diet The Omnivore’s Dilemma, In Defense of Food, and Food Rules, once came up with the...
Adopt or Shop
Wanna see a fight? Start a debate on social media about what’s best: adopting a dog or puppy from a shelter or rescue group...
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How to Have a Happy Retirement
A good friend recently gave notice that he wanted to retire from a job he’s had since he was just a tiny puppy. My dog Woody’s best friend Samson, who has never weighed as much as five pounds, has been going to work with my friend Leonora since he was a 3-week-old foster puppy—and recently, he started telling Leonora that he doesn’t want to go to work any more.