Your puppy’s first night at home. It’s definitely exciting…It’s definitely fun…Here are some things to think about before your puppy arrives at your home. It’s been about a year (UPDATE: Yowzers! It’s been almost 12 years now!) since I brought a 7 week old puppy named Stetson home from Guide Dogs of America (GDA). It made me […]
Midwest Life Stages Metal Dog Crate Review
The Midwest Life Stages Metal Dog Crate Review is nearly 11 years in the making. In fact it’s my first puppy product purchase ever! Flashback to January 7th, 2005: The day I picked up Linus from the Carson Animal Shelter. I began my search for a puppy on December 5th, 2004 and after browsing PetFinder.com I […]
3 Traits Of Successful Puppy Raisers And Bloggers
2004 was the year I got my first puppy. 2007 was the year I started the Puppy In Training blog. Today is the first day I realized that successful puppy raisers and successful bloggers have 3 common traits. Sometimes I’m a little slow, but seriously it took 11 years to have this revelation!?! So what are […]
Attack of the Puppy Clones!
Nope, this isn’t Star Wars and we’re not talking about real puppy clones. These are just plush puppy clones, but they sure do look like the real thing. Don’t they? Will the real Adelle please tilt your head? The puppy on the left was Adelle’s little play buddy from her first days with us. We […]
4 Future Benefits Of Crate Training Your Puppy
Maybe you already started crate training your puppy and have already hit those frustrating first few days or maybe you are just prepping for that new puppy. Either way when you first start crate training the future benefits of a well-behaved, crate trained puppy are not always apparent. After crate training my last half dozen puppies […]
How Can I Get My Dog To Stop Peeing In Her Crate?
We often get puppy questions through our blog, email, and social media channels and recently we’ve been receiving the same crate training questions over and over again. The basic question we’ve been getting is “How Can I Get My Dog To Stop Peeing In Her Crate?” Before we brought home our first puppy we read several books about […]