Preparing for your first puppy in 7 simple steps
Vision
Risks
Budget
Research
SMART Plan
Shopping
Adoption
3 Words Perfect Puppy (3WPP)
Why the family want a puppy? Benefit to them ?
Housing
House Safety Risks
Resident Pets
Children
Zoonoses - diseases from dog to human
Asthma reaction
Allergies to dogs?
Car size?
Health of puppy - wanting to ensure adopt a healthy puppy
worried about buying a puppy from wrong place
avoiding puppy scams
Pups Behaving Badly
Purchase Costs
Unexpected vets bills
Monthly expense planner
Public Liability
Set-up costs
Breeds
Specific Breed(s)
Measurement
Age at Adoption
Realistic Budget
Timescale
Crate or Bed?
Toilet Training Kit
Teething Kit
Car Kit
Transporting Puppy Home
Vaccines
Paperwork from breeder
Microchip
First Impressions Matter
Bonus - Clicker training module
Bonus - Advanced dog trainer module
BONUS - nutrition module
Landlord Consent
Garden Size and lawn damage
How big dog gets - estimating and measuring size
Pest Control - mousetraps, rat poison
Puppy proofing house
Existing dogs in household
Ages of children and size of dog
Health problems
Pet Insurance
Food
Grooming
House equipment
Gundogs
Utility
Disease explanation
Joining the Pack
Feline Fun
dog rocks - female urine, burning the lawn - how to avoid
crate training
Crate Kits
Parvo
Distemper
Lepto
Kennel Cough
Adenovirus
L2 or L4?
Do I need KC?
Daycare
Puppy classes?