Common Puppy Diseases
Some common illnesses in puppies are deadly. Vaccinate your puppy!
When Can Puppies Take a Bath?
The age you can bathe a puppy literally depends upon how dirty he is.
When Do Puppies Stop Teething?
Tips for keeping your home, possessions, and self from being chewed to bits by your teething puppy.
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...
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The Pain of Making the Euthanasia Decision
In the past few days, I’ve exchanged dozens of texts and phone calls and one FaceTime session with a long-time friend regarding his dog Leroy. Stephen and his partner adopted Leroy from my local shelter in September 2011—and in the 13½ years since, we’ve probably exchanged hundreds of texts and emails and phone calls about the happy, clever little dog.