May 17, 2012

How Often Should You Feed A Puppy?

How Often Should You Feed A Puppy

There are so many questions when it comes to puppy food.  A question I just received the other day was “How often should you feed a puppy?”  Here’s a short list of some of the other common questions I receive from friends, family, and comments on this blog: What to feed a puppy? How much [...]

Do You Know How To Perform Dog CPR?

Dog CPR

I was on Pinterest today and found this interesting infographic with some detailed information on how to perform CPR on a dog. A couple years ago at our monthly guide dog meeting we had a little dog CPR class to show us puppy raisers how to perform CPR with our dogs in case of an [...]

5 Tips For Bringing Home A New Puppy

Bringing Home A Puppy

Lately I’ve been putting together a lot of short tips for bringing home a new puppy.  In the future I’ll put together an all inclusive puppy training tip guide that includes all of my tips for bringing home a new puppy.  Recently I wrote about Quick Puppy Training Tip, Puppy Vaccination Schedule, and Puppy’s First [...]

A Quick Puppy Training Tip

Puppy Training Tip

Today I’ve got a quick puppy training tip for you. I’ve talked about puppy pickup day quite extensively here on the blog.  Can I just reiterate that it’s an AWESOME DAY!  It’s the evening that can sometimes be a disaster if your puppy does not like crate training. That brings me to today’s quick puppy training [...]

Why A Valentine Puppy Is Not A Good Gift

Valentine Puppy

The first thing you hear is barking, howling, and whining followed by Happy Valentine’s Day!  Uh oh, did he just get me a Valentine Puppy?  As much as you’d like to think that getting your girlfriend a Valentine’s Day Puppy is a good idea…think again! A while back I talked about why a Christmas puppy [...]

Top 10 Dog Questions For Puppy Raisers

Dog Questions

I was reading another puppy raiser blog years ago and I came across an article about t-shirts with the answers to some very common puppy raiser guide dog questions that I hear on a daily basis.  I went back to Google the other night and did my best to look up the same blog post, [...]

How To Handle The 3 Most Common Puppy Health Problems

Puppy Health Problems

When I first picked up Linus from the Animal Shelter I really didn’t know to much about how to handle the most common puppy health problems.  The shelter gives you a little bit of information (maybe it’s different today then it was years ago), but it does not compare to the packet of information I [...]

Dog Training Checklist – 18 Things Your Dog Should Know

dog training checklist

I was flipping through my Golden Retriever Guide Dog Puppy In Training, Apache’s folder and came across a dog training checklist.  Actually this wasn’t any old dog training checklist because Apache is training to be a guide dog.  This was a list detailing 18 things your guide dog puppy should know before he goes in [...]

Do You Have A Puppy Vaccination Schedule?

Puppy Linus 2

When I brought home my first puppy over 7 years ago I had no idea about his puppy vaccination schedule.  The animal shelter told me he had his initial puppy vaccinations, gave me some paperwork, and told me to bring him to my local veterinarian for his next round of puppy shots.  Okay!?!  I knew [...]

What Should I Do For My Puppy’s First Day Home?

Golden Retriever Puppy - Apache

My puppy’s first day home was definitely a whirlwind the first time.  The second puppy was no different.  The third puppy was the same…There’s so much excitement every time you bring home a new puppy that whether it’s your first, fifth, or fifteenth puppy you’re so excited you almost forget about all the little things [...]